Accounting and Budgeting Principles for Higher Education
As a business, the university must account for the money it receives and spends according to standardized bookkeeping and financial reporting methods. But members of the academic community may not be familiar with standard financial procedures, while accountants may be unaware of the unique financial attributes of colleges and universities. To ......
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs)'not-for-profit, degree-granting colleges and universities that enroll at least 25% or more Latinx students'are among the fastest-growing higher education segments in the United States. As of fall 2016, they represented 15% of all postsecondary institutions in the United States and enrolled 65% of all Latinx ......
A deanship in higher education is an exciting but complex job combining technical administration and academic leadership. On one hand, the dean is an institutional leader, standing up for the faculty, staff, and students. On the other, the dean is a middle manager, managing personnel, curriculum, and budgets and trying to live up to the ......
Higher education occupies a difficult place in twenty-first-century American culture. Universities - the institutions that bear so much responsibility for the future health of our nation - are at odds with the very publics they are intended to serve. As Kathleen Fitzpatrick asserts, it is imperative that we re-center the mission of the ......
Evidence-Based Social Policy: The Promise and Challenges of a Movement
For the past two decades, state and federal governments have seen a significant increase in evidence-based policymaking, which has allowed them to develop effective programs and improve existing ones. The field of evidence-based policy comprises several subdivisions, representing distinct approaches to generating and using evidence. While there is still a ways to go before the field proves consistent in improving the nation's policies, the research presented here shows that the field is not to be overlooked, and can have positive implications for the future of policy in our nation. This volume of The ANNALS provides a survey of the field of evidence-based practices and policymaking through papers written by the some of its most notable practitioners, including two U.S. senators and one of the original developers and implementers of the Pay for Success program model. The research in this volume provides a unique overview of the field of evidence-based policy, and demonstrates the benefits of this approach to policy-makers and the public alike.
40 activities for FE students that transform commitment, motivation and productivity
In The VESPA Mindset Workbook: 40 activities for FE students that transform commitment, motivation and productivity, Steve Oakes and Martin Griffinshare a collection of practical activities designed to boost college students' positivity, resilience and organisation.
Land-grant colleges and universities occupy a special place in the landscape of American higher education. Publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions were first founded in the mid-nineteenth century with the Morrill Act, which established land grants to support these schools. They include such prominent names as ......
How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them
Higher education in America, still thought to be the world leader, is in crisis. University students are falling behind their international peers in attainment, while suffering from unprecedented student debt. For over a decade, the realm of American higher education has been wracked with self-doubt and mutual recrimination, with no clear ......
Evidence-Based Social Policy: The Promise and Challenges of a Movement
For the past two decades, state and federal governments have seen a significant increase in evidence-based policymaking, which has allowed them to develop effective programs and improve existing ones. The field of evidence-based policy comprises several subdivisions, representing distinct approaches to generating and using evidence. While there is still a ways to go before the field proves consistent in improving the nation's policies, the research presented here shows that the field is not to be overlooked, and can have positive implications for the future of policy in our nation. This volume of The ANNALS provides a survey of the field of evidence-based practices and policymaking through papers written by the some of its most notable practitioners, including two U.S. senators and one of the original developers and implementers of the Pay for Success program model. The research in this volume provides a unique overview of the field of evidence-based policy, and demonstrates the benefits of this approach to policy-makers and the public alike.
