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Improving the Applicant Experience and Institutional Results Through Transcript Services

Helix Education

Regardless of degree level or program of study, institutions always need transcripts to verify applicants’ prior experience and eligibility. URNL Transcript Services can speed up and smooth out this step in the enrollment process.

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Scaling Online Programming: The Fundamental Building Blocks

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Always being mindful that each institution is different – in terms of the types of programs, the degree levels, the discipline areas, and how many programs an institution can bring forward at any one time. They is often a gap in understanding of how to meet the unique needs of adult and online students.

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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

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

This last item is worth discussing because it brings up a few misconceptions about sponsored research - e.g. that it is revenue neutral (or even positive) for the institution. However, this current discussion has suggested that growth in research also drives growth in educational price.

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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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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.