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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Thus about 25% of faculty academic year salary should be allocated to the cost of undergraduate education and a similar amount to the cost of graduate education in any cost analysis. He also divides up expenditures of adjunct faculty and TA's along the lines of course assignments to decide how to allocate that component of the budget.

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How Can You Increase Success With Second-Year and Transfer Students?

Helix Education

But with today’s shrinking pool of students, institutions really need to maximize persistence between the first and second years. Likewise, transfer student retention has elevated in importance as colleges and universities also need more of those students to stay and complete their degrees.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

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. Over the 4 years covered by the report, Direct Funding grew by an impressive 54.8%. Most elements of Departmental Research, e.g