Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Unlike food pantries or meal swipe programs, economist Dr. Craig Gunderson notes that SNAP affords students the dignity of choosing what, when, and where they would like to eat, which is especially important for busy adults.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

“Pandemic-related austerity measures, hiring freezes, and the like were implemented by almost every U.S. These jobs were in government, business, nonprofits and K-12 and other positions. Beyond academic job listings, Grigoli wrote that 15 percent of new history Ph.D.s Some 1,799 historians earned their Ph.D.s

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The goal of the book is not to help organizations work more effectively with consultants but instead to uncover the impact and reach that McKinsey has had on businesses and governments. Over all, I’d say that When McKinsey Comes to Town is only partly successful as a user guide for consumers of big consultant services and ideas.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In an era of politically driven austerity in which colleges are supposed to be run like businesses, possible enrollment loss to another sector is a survival issue. They should instead work together to help students. And that’s where I think the lion’s share of the issue is to be found.

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HEPI

JANUARY 3, 2023

Many would say that the UK higher education system dodged a bullet at the recent Autumn Statement , with the deferral of significant fiscal restraint until after the next election meaning no immediate shift to austerity-style cuts.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Since austerity, even ‘white, middle-class students of traditional age’ face a ‘double deficit’ of financial shortfall and increasing pressure to gain employability skills ( Hordósy, Clark and Vickers, 2018 : 361). Precarious employment and exploitative business models make such problems a structural feature of these jobs.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

But austerity and precarity have made it impossible for me to give those same experiences to my undergraduate students.” The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D. candidates that have only the most limited prospects of a tenure-track job, whether at a two- or four-year school.

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