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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. From 2005 through 2012, she served as education policy analyst for the Florida Legislature. “Dr.

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Share of Hispanic College Students Has Nearly Doubled Since 2005

The Chronicle of Higher Education

By Dan Bauman The rise correlates with a rapidly growing number of Hispanic-serving institutions, which has tripled since the 1990s.

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The Value of Higher Education in Developed Economies

HEPI

Mathias Cormann, Secretary General of the OECD, on the value of higher education in developed countries. Never mind that the 50% target he refers to relates to tertiary education, I am certain he is not alone in believing that too many people go to university. In 1998, 20% of adults in the OECD had a tertiary education.

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Operating a Continuing Education Unit in Startup Mode

MindMax

Titled PCO Startup Mode: Balancing Long-Term Strategy with a Practical Launch at UC Merced Extension , the webinar sparked a fascinating discussion about operating a continuing education unit in startup mode. It’s the youngest campus in the system, established in 2005. “It That might be really cool.

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The regulation of student education: are the quality wars back?

HEPI

Roger recently wrote for HEPI on neoliberalism in English higher education which you can read here. With the introduction of fees and the partial liberalisation of the rules for degree awarding powers and university title we were well on the way to what can be seen as a higher education ‘neo-market’, at least in England (Brown, forthcoming).

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General election 2024: Higher education fees and funding

HEPI

The logic of fees Whether we like it or not, there is one higher education issue that tends to bestride all the others at general elections, and that is tuition fees. Moreover, higher education finance is a devolved matter. In many ways, that is an odd fact.

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JAMES T. OVERTON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is his second time serving in the role, initially from 2005 to 2011. Overton James T. Overton has been named chief of the police department at Delaware State University. Overton holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delaware State and a master’s degree in human resource management from Wilmington College in Delaware.