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The divestment problem

University Business

More from UB: The 3 factors holding at-risk students back from graduating The ethical dilemma Student calls for divestment have a significant history in higher education, and some have proved successful. ” Consequently, many prominent higher education presidents are returning to staunchly defending institutional neutrality. .

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

This week’s guest on The World of Higher Education Podcast is Juan Carlos Navarro, international expert in higher education, innovation and digital talent; senior advisor to several international institutions and universities; and Member of the international faculty of the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración , in Caracas, Venezuela.

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

However, in these times of heated discussions over who should pay for higher education and a background of rapidly increasing student debt, it is important to have some idea of what the actual costs of producing that education are. this indeterminacy through our accepted form of higher education accounting - fund accounting.

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U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

Inside Higher Ed

Social workers “absolutely cannot situate ourselves as the magic ingredient to eradicating racism in law enforcement—an institution directly tied to the legacy of American slavery—if we cannot dismantle racism within our own systems of care,” Dettlaff wrote in the letter, which was signed by more than 1,100 social workers.

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 Ready or Not, Here It Comes! New Regulations When Offering Programs Leading to a License Effective July 1!

WCET Frontiers

Institutions and the U.S. Department of Education (Department) have a common goal to support a student participating in an educational program leading to a state license to complete the state educational requirements to pursue their goal of becoming employed in the occupation for which they were trained and educated.

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The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

ACRLog

The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? In searching for other academic librarianship-wide competencies, I noticed a lack from other large academic library organizations, such as ACRL or ARL. The CARL Competencies. With your job description?

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

On the other hand, hidden costs are well known, but seldom openly discussed even thought they contribute very significantly to the institutional cost of research. 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.