Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Zamani-Gallaher has been named the Renée and Richard Goldman Endowed Dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh. “I Zamani-Gallaher holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Western Illinois University, a master’s in general experimental psychology, and a Ph.D.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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. Rural towns in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Janine Davidson, president of Metropolitan State University of Denver, said that given the state’s declining higher ed enrollment, shortage of teachers and health-care workers , and a budget crisis caused by decades of state disinvestment , placing a numeric value on degree programs seems like a low priority.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We have tons of evidence, good causal evidence, that for an additional year of postsecondary education, earnings are going to increase by between 8 and 10 percent. We know that STEM majors short term do substantially better than humanities majors, but what you see over time is the convergence between the two.

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