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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Students, staff, faculty and alumni of Towson University in Maryland gathered last month to celebrate the renaming of two dormitories, now called Barnes Hall and Harris Hall, after the university’s first two Black graduates.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

A college or university that does research ends up spending considerable resources of its own even when most of its research is “funded”. How and why is this the case, and where does the institution look to find the resources needed to cover this unfunded research cost? Institutional as a % of Federal. . . . . 41.54%. . .

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

Universities often report a number that appears to indicate how much the university spends on instruction. Lombardi , in How Universities Work. These conclusions lead to a consideration of why cost -shifting between missions is so important in the current approach of the research university. We would be wrong to do so. .

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