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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

University Business

Ron DeSantis has been at the epicenter of higher education this past year. In K12 and higher ed, the term “woke” has plunged education into a muddy existential battle. Only two higher education administrators agreed to the interview. “He is taking names. .”

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Venezuelan Higher Education

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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.

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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

Amid a wave of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Towson administrators announced they would appoint a committee to research the two men’s legacies and determine whether they aligned with the university’s values. ” 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

On the other hand, hidden costs are well known, but seldom openly discussed even thought they contribute very significantly to the institutional cost of research. Whatever the value of institutional Direct Funding of R&D, it is obviously the driver of the rapidly growing overall cost of Institutional R&D.

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The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

ACRLog

The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? The CARL Competencies. How do you envision your role as an academic librarian? With your job description? And do you have the knowledge, skills, and values to support this work?

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

However, in these times of heated discussions over who should pay for higher education and a background of rapidly increasing student debt, it is important to have some idea of what the actual costs of producing that education are. this indeterminacy through our accepted form of higher education accounting - fund accounting.

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 Ready or Not, Here It Comes! New Regulations When Offering Programs Leading to a License Effective July 1!

WCET Frontiers

The administration changed and the Department sought to delay the state authorization-related rules on the eve of the effective date in 2018. Continue to follow a process to provide public and direct notifications relative to the states where students are served. This postponed the effective date until July 1, 2018.