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Zamani-Gallaher Appointed Dean of School of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“The school’s mission-vision aligns with my work as a scholar and leader, and I believe the school is poised to reach new heights in the areas of K-12 and higher education, human development, exercise, health, and wellness.” At Pittsburgh, she served as interim dean of the school since August 2023.

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Here are 9 ways higher education can ensure rural America’s long-term vitality

University Business

A comprehensive report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) illustrates the resilience of America’s blue-collar region and describes how increased collaboration with higher education can ensure its survival.

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Unpacking Financial Disincentives and Driving Beyond the Short-Term Reward Mind-Set

Inside Higher Ed

Psychology explains that humans frequently make decisions guided by short-term rewards rather than long-term rewards, and they are likely to discount delayed events. Therefore, in the postsecondary education arena, institutional decision-makers respond to short-term budgeting rewards.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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How federal and state policies gauge colleges' value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Image: As recently as a decade ago, the concept of “value” rarely found its way into discussions about federal policy making about higher education. McCann: You certainly see it in the history around the policy, if not, in the Higher Education Act itself.

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