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Embedding Data in the Review Process to Improve Resource Allocation

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Embedding Data in the Review Process to Improve Resource Allocation Streamlining Department Review with Standardized Data About St. Edify enabled SAU to use key department-level metrics to inform resource requests and make allocation decisions. Existing reports included disparate data points and required extensive manual analysis.

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Duke Invests in Community-Engaged Research to Increase STEM Access

Insight Into Diversity

recently allocated funding from its endowment to support seven faculty projects that will examine and address issues relevant to the surrounding population. Duke University is taking action to advance racial and social justice by investing in community-engaged research. The private university in Durham, N.C.,

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Performance-based funding: The new normal or a schtick?

University Business

Rather than states basing money allocation explicitly on school enrollment or a system-wide base-adjusted formula, performance-based funding judges institutions on whether they meet certain metrics.

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Georgetown and Howard Universities Awarded $3 Million for Medical Humanities Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams, dean of Howard University’s Graduate School , professor of African-American literature, and grant co-leader. The center will apply a medical humanities approach in addressing health disparities related to race/ethnicity and income, and health equity.

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3 Questions on Academic Library Spending to the Scholar Who Wrote the Book on University Budgets

Inside Higher Ed

Q1: Overall, how do academic libraries allocate their budgets? When library deans talk to provosts about their budget, all these topics may come up, but I’d be surprised if subscription costs are not the most commonly discussed issue.

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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Inside Higher Ed

Ithaka S+R shared results from its triennial survey published last week, which sought to capture college library deans’ and directors’ perspectives three years into the pandemic. At the same time, library deans and directors are struggling to retain and hire staff, according to the Ithaka survey.

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2022 Delphi Award Winners Share Practices to Support Part-Time Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The school employs 204 part-time/adjunct faculty and 32 full-time non-tenure track faculty, said Dr. Mojgan Behmand, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Dominican. Meanwhile, Dominican University is similarly trying to support its adjunct faculty.

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