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We 7 former Florida college presidents say enough is enough - Tampa Bay Tribune Column

Economics and Change in Higher Education

Taken together, they forbid faculty members from including a set of so-called “divisive concepts” about race, gender and identity in their classrooms; ban most diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives; restrict general education curricula and university mission statements; and limit the power of higher education accreditors to perform quality assurance (..)

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Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Provost at Western Michigan University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Vasquez Helig—who is currently the dean of the School of Education at the University of Kentucky—is slated to step into his new role in January. "We He is a proven scholar who also has been elevated to leadership roles at major public universities in three states, including at Kentucky's flagship institution.

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After a ‘no confidence’ vote, JSU sits its seventh president since 2010

University Business

More from UB: Overhaul at Florida’s New College starts big, ousts sitting president Thrust into the position Friday morning amid declining enrollment numbers , Hayes-Anthony’s first week at the helm of Jackson State will kick off with a listening tour beginning with thoughts and concerns from students. .

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We need to talk about staff retention in the sector

HEPI

We then used this research to examine how staff numbers – both academic and non-academic – have either increased or decreased within that time frame across specific universities. We then grouped the data to enable us to calculate an average student:staff ratio for a range of university mission groups from 2014/15 to 2021/22.

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CHLOE 7: Centralization vs. Distribution of Online Student Services

Inside Higher Ed

1 - Figure 5 gives a good list of the critical services a university must provide for online programs. One challenge for colleges and universities with distributed or small online learning footprints is getting a handle on all the pieces that must be brought together to develop and run a new online program.

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3 Questions KSU’s Laurel Littrell on How Academic Library Budgets Really Work

Inside Higher Ed

Cutting resources by level of use would appear to be the easiest method, but what if the 2-3 people who use a comparatively low use, specialized journal are leading a multi-million dollar research grant on a topic that is core to the university mission? There are many different types of designations, unions, etc.

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Rankings Discourses: West, East and South

HESA

While in Asia they remain focused on research outputs, in the west, new rankings like the Times Higher Impact Rankings and the QS Sustainability Rankings have tried to put the spotlight on other aspects of universitiesmissions like contributions to society or the environment or other factors.