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Representation and Salary Gaps by Race-Ethnicity and Gender at Selective Public Universities
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Li, Diyi; Koedel, Cory – Educational Researcher, 2017
We use data from 2015-2016 to document faculty representation and wage gaps by race-ethnicity and gender in six fields at selective public universities. Consistent with widely available information, Black, Hispanic, and female professors are underrepresented and White and Asian professors are overrepresented in our data. Disadvantaged minority and…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Teacher Salaries, Racial Differences, Ethnic Groups
Leading Change: How Boards and Presidents Build Exceptional Academic Institutions
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MacTaggart, Terrence – Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, 2011
In a time of transformation in higher education, "Leading Change: How Boards and Presidents Build Exceptional Institutions" fills a significant void in leadership literature and focuses on the changing level of board engagement. This book examines 18 institutions, across the spectrum of higher education, at which the board played a…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Governing Boards, Trustees, Higher Education
Wisconsin's Flagship Is Raided for Scholars
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Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Wisconsin's stagnating state higher-education budget has forced the university to keep faculty salaries far below average. When professors get feelers from elsewhere, they learn that a move can easily mean a 100-percent salary increase--sometimes more. Budget problems have also depleted money for perks that keep faculty members on board--funds for…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, College Faculty, Public Colleges, Private Colleges
Campus Budgeting for Tough Times: Lessons from the First Half of the 1990s. Rockefeller Reports.
Burke, Joseph C. – 1998
This report lists 11 budgetary principles for higher education institutions, and presents the results of a survey which examined whether the practices of four-year public higher education institutions in California, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Texas, and Wisconsin followed these precepts during the fiscal problems of the early 1990s. The 11…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Educational Finance, Higher Education, Long Range Planning
Certificates Count: An Analysis of Sub-Baccalaureate Certificates
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Bosworth, Brian – Complete College America, 2010
Since President Obama took office, he has repeatedly called for the United States to significantly improve its postsecondary education performance. One goal in particular has gained wide attention: the President's declaration that in an ever more competitive global marketplace, the United States must once again lead the world in college…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges, Educational Certificates
The Impact of State Budget Reductions in the 1990's: A View of Public Higher Education in Six States.
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Serban, Andreea M.; Burke, Joseph C. – 1998
This study examined the impact of state budget cuts on public colleges and universities in six states, focusing on the effects of such cuts on institutional priorities and plans, tuition and fees, and educational quality. Five state higher education finance officers, 12 state college or university system finance officers, and 98 college or…
Descriptors: Administrators, Budgeting, Educational Attitudes, Educational Finance