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Improving the Applicant Experience and Institutional Results Through Transcript Services

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As the landscape of higher education continues to be fraught with enrollment challenges, steep competition, and rising costs, university leaders often find themselves in the unpleasant position of determining how to do more with less. Those transcripts are provided to the institution as part of the applicant’s admissions materials.

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The divestment problem

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Columbia University President Minouche Shafik’s testimony on Capitol Hill last week , followed by the arrest and suspension of over 100 pro-Palestine student demonstrators, has ignited a new wave of fiery campus protests across some of the country’s most reputable schools, including Yale, MIT and NYU.

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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

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“Bottom line: Big Brother is watching,” wrote one University of Florida professor in an email to his colleagues and collected by the special committee. “What’s happening at New College is a disgrace,” said University of Florida President Emeritus Bernie Maches, according to the special committee.

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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. Institutional as a % of Federal. . . .

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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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Building awareness of your law program is more important than ever

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Blogs Building awareness of your law program is more important than ever Here’s how 3 schools did it effectively *Institution names in this post are pseudonyms. While this “ stealth shopping ” phenomenon is not new, it has become far more pervasive in recent years, making it difficult for institutions to identify prospective students.

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Scaling Online Programming: The Fundamental Building Blocks

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Andrea Carroll-Glover Andrea Carroll-Glover has built online programs from the ground up at each of the institutions at which she has worked. Since joining the Capella University team more than 15 years ago, and then leading online development efforts at St. What innovations have you brought to growing online over those 15 years?