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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Today, she is the president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, where she founded the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He is a proven scholar who also has been elevated to leadership roles at major public universities in three states, including at Kentucky's flagship institution. It is also unprecedented to have an educational policy expert leading as a provost at a major research institution that boasts a student population of about 24,000. “We

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10 points to note on today’s report on student accommodation costs – By Nick Hillman

HEPI

I am delighted that the organisation I work for, the Higher Education Policy Institute, is publishing today’s report with Unipol. It is in a long line of HEPI papers on the issue of where students live. The Robbins Report is as interesting on student accommodation as it is on almost everything else.

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Sports betting contracts should be rethought (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

The aim was for the NCAA and its member institutions to root out and punish college student athletes who engaged in cheating. The university is a city-state and an educational institution. The Supreme Court’s effective legalization of sports gambling does not signal the end of the moral discussion. For example, the Nov.

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Oberlin's board seeks to limit faculty power

Inside Higher Ed

“The limitations that we’re going to have on us as faculty to make important decisions, and to really shape the institution as it develops into the future, will profoundly influence the student experience.” It’s hard to say, but I’m sure it will change over time, and it will change the nature of the institution.”

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At a time when the Latino population in the United States is growing and students are still facing daunting obstacles, Excelencia in Education is recognizing nine institutions for their clear and decisive commitment to Latino student success with the Seal of Excelencia.

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Must do better:  making the Office for Students accountable

SRHE

It criticises its ‘prescriptive regulatory requirements and time-consuming processes’ and its ‘inappropriate micromanagement’, with ‘little regard to the need to protect institutional autonomy’. Institutions are found to be reluctant to engage with it ‘for fear of a punitive regulatory response’. Bloomsbury Institute Ltd.