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Scaling Online Programming: The Fundamental Building Blocks

Helix Education

I’ve also worked on digital badging that allows students to stack credentials, earn digital credentials, and help students demonstrate the skills and knowledge they have learned.

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U of Houston removes social justice–focused dean of social work

Inside Higher Ed

Social workers “absolutely cannot situate ourselves as the magic ingredient to eradicating racism in law enforcement—an institution directly tied to the legacy of American slavery—if we cannot dismantle racism within our own systems of care,” Dettlaff wrote in the letter, which was signed by more than 1,100 social workers.

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The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

ACRLog

The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? The CARL Competencies. How do you envision your role as an academic librarian? With your job description? And do you have the knowledge, skills, and values to support this work?

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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

” Still other institutions directly address the potential legal repercussions of removing a name. Institutions—most recently, the University of California Hastings College of the Law —have been sued for attempting to change names they had previously promised to maintain in perpetuity.

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Venezuelan Higher Education

HESA

Institutionally, there has been furious controversy as the government has tried to reduce institutional autonomy and control institutions directly through political means. Universities – and their students – have as a result become one of the government’s biggest institutional barriers to one-party absolutism.

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The high cost of funded research in colleges and universities

Changing Higher Education

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. Over the 4 years covered by the report, Direct Funding grew by an impressive 54.8%. Most elements of Departmental Research, e.g

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Cost allocation in the research university and what it tells us

Changing Higher Education

This last item is worth discussing because it brings up a few misconceptions about sponsored research - e.g. that it is revenue neutral (or even positive) for the institution.

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