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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

As more institutions face calls to banish the names of controversial figures from campus, many are developing new policies to guide the process and determine when it is appropriate to remove a building’s name—sometimes referred to as “denaming” or “unnaming.”

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

HERD data instructions are clear:”R&D does not include unrecovered indirect costs that exceed your institution’s federally negotiated Facilities and Administration (F&A) rate”. 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.

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Thus, one part of the difficulty of defining educational costs is the interlocking business models that lead to individuals and facilities being used in multiple activities. In the university case, faculty perform multiple functions, as do facilities such as classrooms, labs, and libraries.

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