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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Students, staff, faculty and alumni of Towson University in Maryland gathered last month to celebrate the renaming of two dormitories, now called Barnes Hall and Harris Hall, after the university’s first two Black graduates. ” Still other institutions directly address the potential legal repercussions of removing a name.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

HERD data instructions are clear:”R&D does not include unrecovered indirect costs that exceed your institution’s federally negotiated Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate”. cost sharing and start-up packages for new faculty, are the “seed corn” of funded research. Most elements of Departmental Research, e.g

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Allowing university administrators to follow their own priorities in cost shifting and cost sharing between activities such as research and teaching has resulted in an enormously successful university research enterprise, and a highly respected educational system. The current system, which demands large annual real cost increases, is broken.

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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

University Business

His interest in divorcing higher education from what he perceives as a far-left agenda antithetical to American democracy has invited judges, faculty and administration, and similarly skeptical conservatives across state lines to deliberate on the current state of higher education. “He is taking names.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education Podcast is Juan Carlos Navarro, international expert in higher education, innovation and digital talent; senior advisor to several international institutions and universities; and Member of the international faculty of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración , in Caracas, Venezuela.