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State Support for Higher Ed Is Up

Inside Higher Ed

percent was allocated to financial aid, and 11.4 percent went to research, hospital expansion and medical schools. For the past two years, SHEEO has also tracked data on the federal stimulus money that states allocated to higher education. In fiscal 2023, states allocated $1.2 percent), Mississippi (26.6

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State support for higher ed up for second year in a row

Inside Higher Ed

” For the past two years, SHEEO has also tracked data on the COVID-19 federal stimulus funds that states allocated to higher education. percent to research, hospital expansion and medical schools, according to the SHEEO report. “I would say it’s more positive than we’ve seen in the last two decades.”

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Pioneers discuss the challenges facing computer science

Inside Higher Ed

“It’s kind of like in medical school when they talk about the ‘half-life of knowledge.’ ’ The medical school dean tells graduates, ‘In five years, half of what we tell you will turn out to be false,’” said Alexei Efros, computer science professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are a lot of guardrails around how these resources can be allocated and extended,” says Richardson. “He He entered Morehouse intent on majoring in biology and going on to medical school. While he loved history, the only career option he could envision was becoming a high school teacher, which didn’t interest him.

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Deep Internationalization & Infrastructure

GlobalHigherEd

Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore (a National University of Singapore/Duke University joint venture). Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore (a Nanyang Technological University/Imperial College London joint venture). Global Innovation Exchange in Seattle (a University of Washington/Tsinghua University joint venture).

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

These data include medical schools, which contribute about $23B to the Total Research column in 2014. Medical schools are organized and financed very differently from the rest of the university; conclusions drawn from these overall numbers should therefore be understood with that caveat. TOTAL RESEARCH. 4 year % change.

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The Post-Pandemic College Campus as a Design Challenge

Inside Higher Ed

A Yale-trained architect with an NYU Stern MBA, generously shared her thoughts about how post-pandemic colleges and universities might rethink some basic assumptions about space allocation and utilization in light of current concerns over cost, eye-appeal, fit, sustainability, and especially the growing impact of remote work and remote learning.

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