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How one college spends more than $30M on 241 DEI staffers … and the damage it does to kids
One day after winning the national college football championship, the University of Michigan was recognized as a leading competitor...
One day after winning the national college football championship, the University of Michigan was recognized as a leading competitor...
Are layoffs racist or antiracist? Boston University Professor Phillipe Copeland would like to know. When news broke that Ibram X. Kendi’s Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University was laying off half or more of its staff,...
The average American saved $5,011 last year. That means it would take them about 75 years to save up enough cash to send one child...
Higher Ed Now welcomes Matthew Hendricks, the founder of Perspective Data Science, a small data consulting firm that specializes in education finance and policy analytics. Professor Hendricks previously served as the Chair of the Department of Economics at...
Higher education professionals are reporting feeling overworked and underpaid with no opportunities for advancement as colleges and universities “staff up.” In a recent open-ended survey of over 150 “college workers,” respondents expressed “frustration at the...
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has released a new, interactive tool that presents easily digestible data on key measures of cost-effectiveness and academic quality for nearly 500 public, four-year colleges and...
College administrators are now acknowledging they have created environments on their campuses that […]
WASHINGTON, DC—The American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has launched its 2021 annual update to HowCollegesSpendMoney.com (HCSM.com). This one-of-a-kind higher education financial analysis tool provides users with easy access to the spending trends of...
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