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Riley K. Acton – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
In the competitive U.S. higher education market, institutions differentiate themselves to attract both students and tuition dollars. One understudied example of this differentiation is the increasing trend of "colleges" becoming "universities" by changing their names. Leveraging variation in the timing of such conversions in an…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Higher Education, Commercialization, Colleges
Hill, Catharine Bond; Radecki, Jane; Radecki, Jane – ITHAKA S+R, 2021
In December of 2012 administrators for the University of Texas (UT) System announced a proposed merger of University of Texas-Brownsville and the University of Texas-Pan American "with an eye toward securing increased state funds and potentially building a medical school." The status of University of Texas at Brownsville (UTB) and…
Descriptors: Universities, Organizational Change, College Administration, Educational Opportunities
Baré, Elizabeth; Beard, Janet; Tjia, Teresa – Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, 2023
With the widespread onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Australian universities anticipated a significant loss of students and revenue and hence forecast the need for significant job reductions. Using Higher Education Statistics (HES) data on student numbers and full-time equivalent (FTE) staff by field of study, we explored changes which…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, College Faculty, Educational Change
Lee, Sarah; Gean, Katherine – James Irvine Foundation, 2017
To stay relevant to changing communities, many arts organizations have been developing engagement programs--that is, programming designed to reach more and different people and involve them more actively in how art is made and experienced. While engagement efforts are often episodic or separate from an art organization's core programming, in late…
Descriptors: Art, Nonprofit Organizations, Organizational Change, Diversity
US Department of Education, 2021
As a precursor to this annual report, in February 2018, the Department issued its "U.S. Department of Education Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years [FY] 2018-22" ("Strategic Plan") (see ED586968). The "Strategic Plan" establishes four broad, overarching goals--one goal each in the areas of K-12 education, postsecondary…
Descriptors: Public Agencies, Federal Government, Strategic Planning, Educational Planning
Weber, Jennifer – North Dakota University System, 2016
To improve student access and success in North Dakota University System institutions, the State Board of Higher Education has implemented enrollment policies that better reflect the differentiated missions of research universities, regional universities, and community colleges. This report addresses the transition in policy by grouping data by…
Descriptors: Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, State Universities, Access to Education