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📢 EUA Funding Survey: How are university finances doing, and what’s next?The European University Association aims to renew its insights into university finances, identifying trends, strengths, and weaknesses, and creating actionable recommendations for stakeholders. 💡This survey explores various financial aspects, including the impact of European Universities' alliances, borrowing, fundraising, and investment capacities.Reflect on your institution’s financial strategy, and contribute valuable data for benchmarking and advocacy. ⌛Fill in the survey by 15 July!#EUA #UniversityFinances #HigherMusicEducation #HigherEducation #Sustainability #EUASurvey #EuropeanUniversity #survey

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Capilouto’s plan to dissolve UK University Senate is naked power grab and should be stopped |- OpinionEdited for length - please read the full editorial at the source: Source: https://lnkd.in/gJ3rjrJb BY Linda Blackford (thank you!) UPDATED APRIL 18, 2024 10:04 AMThere’s been a lot of obfuscation and fancy jargon over University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto’s plan to dissolve the UK University Senate, so let’s call this situation what it is: A massive, paradigm-shifting power grab that could complete UK’s transition from an academic institution to a corporate degree mill.…Capilouto wants UK to be more nimble, as though a school of 34,000 undergraduates could ever move quickly. He believes the University Senate, made up mostly of faculty, but also some staff and students, moves too slowly because of byzantine rules around admissions, graduation and course creation. Only the Board of Trustees can be responsible for educational policy, he says, despite the sad fact that most of the trustees are high-dollar political donors turned appointees whose experience of higher ed is that they went to college.Capilouto’s idea is to dissolve the senate and create three separate senates, made up of faculty, staff and students, who will “advise” him and his top leadership. None of the three will have any power over policy, therefore we can only assume that such advising will end up where most advisory groups end up: Exactly nowhere.…..Only one member of the Board of Trustees, faculty trustee Hollie Swanson, has spoken up against this plan…First of all, there is the gaslit show trial process that Capilouto used to get here; a multinational consulting company, Deloitte, was already on campus doing God knows what (I say that because UK has consistently turned down our paper’s open records requests for what Deloitte was doing for UK.) So they pivoted, as consultants like to say, and started interviewing people here and there on campus about the University Senate. (Deloitte interviewed 55 people in all, but UK officials have refused to say who these people were or what they do.)Strangely, however, Deloitte neglected to interview the actual chair of the Senate Council or use any data from them for their recommendations.….Then there are the deeper arguments.The point of “shared governance” between administration and faculty in academia is that faculty — generally better educated than the administrators who lead them — spend the most time with students and have unique perspectives on courses and programming they need. They are well aware of the needs of their students and the needs of Kentucky. ……In this case, Capilouto has the sole power to fix this situation ... before it’s too late.#deloitte

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Visionary and exampleraly leadership is the best combination.According to the Co-authors of "The leadership challenge" Jim and Barry, when leaders experience their personal best, they display five core practices: They model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act and ENCOURAGE THE HEART. GO #AUNigeria

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22-25 April: This week is university election season at Universiteit Leiden again! Students and staff: Vote for better education/kies voor beter onderwijs: https://lnkd.in/eGurEEkn The first universities (of applied sciences) are kicking off the start of the election season for their democratically elected representative bodies. Co-participation, co-governance or medezeggenschap. Whatever you choose to call it, the councils at central and faculty level that you can vote for are essential for the proper functioning of a university. Turnout has reached an all-time low, and that does not speak to how incredibly invested students and staff are in the future of their education and research. From the pressure on internationalization, to the political winds creating a financially unsure future, we are at a turning point in higher education. How we choose to cope with it. is however our own perogative. An involved university community is essential in times like these. One that makes its voice heard, stands for election themselves or votes for what they believe in. So enthusiastic people can represent your values and advise the executive and faculty board(s) on everything from your education to your research. And yes, progress is hard and it takes time. But from student wellbeing, housing and social safety, to work pressure under staff: you need to start somewhere. After 2 years in Leiden's University Council for Democratic Students Party - The Hague (DSP), I'm passing the baton. We've made a lot of progress on putting on the agenda our campus in The Hague , international students, student mental health and more. So liked what you saw? Give your vote to the next generation. 22-25 April: VOTE(use the link at the top of this post and your university credentials)*afbeelding credits: 2023 campagne 'kies voor beter onderwijs' van VMH, LOVUM, LOF, Hbo Medezeggenschap, ISO, LSVb, Universiteiten van Nederland, Vereniging Hogescholen en het Ministerie van Onderwijs.

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The underfunding within the higher education sector directly impacts the future development of talent within our country, which directly impacts our ability as a country to create, innovate and identify creative solution for the challenges we face as a society, and world at a time when change and challenges are moving so fast it’s hard to keep up.I know when compared to some immediate problems, and challenges within our country, society, and this small world all of which there are many complex and important issues to be resolved. If we don’t develop the talent within our society and allow them to reach their full potential, we may never solve the problems causing us the most about of pain.Our leaders must have a vision to see past some of the emotive, complex and very important issues of today, to ensure we have individuals now and in the future who are capable of solving problems not just in the future but now. That’s before we even consider they challenges yet to come, which we’ve not seen or contemplated for the next generation to solve.And i believe that support must cover all sectors of society and areas, the arts, and other areas which bring value far beyond material wealth, challenging how we think.

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📣 HOT OFF THE PRESS! ThinkHigher is one of the 29 Uni Connect partnerships providing collaborative outreach for Coventry, Warwickshire and Hinckley. Uni Connect is a collaborative outreach programme centrally funded by the Department for Education, via the Office for Students. Its aim is to widen participation by improving equality of opportunity for underrepresented students to access higher education. Introduced in 2017, Uni Connect follows on from other similar national collaborative outreach programmes and is targeted at low participation areas with the aims to both increase participation in higher education and reduce the variation in participation between the most and least represented groups.The Office for Students (OfS) commissioned Public First to undertake a review of collaborative outreach that aims to improve equality of opportunity in access to higher education with a focus on Uni Connect in particular. It considered the extent to which the Uni Connect programme leads to increased student participation, better attainment matching between students and HEIs, and positive economic outcomes through human capital development and increased labour productivity. The review has now been published alongside an economic analysis of Uni Connect. In response the to findings of this review, John Blake Director for Fair Access and Participation at the Office for Students, says, ‘I am grateful to all the Uni Connect staff who contributed evidence to the review, in the form of survey responses and interviews with Public First. They provided important feedback to the OfS about how we can effectively manage these relationships going forward. Uni Connect can – and does – play an important role in ensuring that everyone with the talent to benefit from higher education is able to benefit from it. In making improvements to the programme we can ensure it is set up to have a positive impact into the future.’I am not at all surprised by the findings of this review and economic analysis, and am thrilled to see the hard work of Jo Gaffney Ellie Frankel Jamie Ormes Emma Culey Josh Pointon Pam Ghatora Amy Gordon Emily Doras Heather Twomey Cherish D. at ThinkHigher and the other 28 Uni Connect partnerships being reflected in a formal publication.

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FUNDamentally SCIENCE is planning a participation in the European University Association (EUA) Funding Forum 2024 in Helsinki! Our mission is to support entities in acquiring competitive funding for their excellent projects. This forum comes at a critical time, as universities face unprecedented financial challenges due to recent global events. In preparation for the forum, EUA has launched a crucial survey on university finances. We strongly encourage all our university partners to participate. This survey will: - Help shape the future of higher education finances - Provide valuable data for benchmarking and advocacy - Allow you to reflect on your institution's financial strategy Results will be presented at the 2024 EUA Funding Forum!By attending the forum and analyzing the survey results, we will gain deeper insights into the current funding landscape and the specific challenges our clients face. This knowledge will be invaluable, especially for our Funding Strategy Service. Understanding the real financial pressures and trends will allow us to work more effectively with Senior Administration to develop tailored funding strategies. If you're also attending the forum, let's connect in Helsinki! Don't forget to participate in the survey: https://lnkd.in/dqMTY7Af#EUAFundingForum2024 #UniversityFunding #ResearchFunding #HigherEducationFunding #FUNDamentallySCIENCE #FundingStrategy

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We are pleased to announce our upcoming event in collaboration with the UK Parliament's Knowledge Exchange Unit entitled ''Connecting your research with the UK Parliament''. The event's details are provided below. Event details:Date: Friday 14th of June 2024Time: 11am UK TimeVenue: Online (via Microsoft Teams)Speaker: Sarah Carter-Bell (Knowledge Exchange Lead at POST, UK Parliament). How to attend: info@societyofblackacademics.comLearning outcomes from the event:- Sarah will will present a short introduction highlighting the key routes through which to share your research with the UK parliament.- This session will provide the essential need-to-know information about the UK Parliament, introduce the support available for researchers through the Knowledge Exchange Unit, and explore some top tips.- The session will be a pre-cursor to future workshops which will provide a more in-depth ‘how to engage’ workshop on each area of parliament that draws on academic research, such as the parliamentary libraries, select committees, APPGs and the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. To register for the event, please send an email: info@societyofblackacademics.com. You will receive further joining details closer to the date of the event. Event contacts: Mercy Denedo Steven Kator IorfaDon't miss it!!!#parliament #research #policy #black #academics

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Congrats to the bright and hard-working phd students, and the incredible faculty at VGSF. I learned about VGSF years ago after watching one of their very inspiring YouTube videos. I look forward to contsantly working hard as this university has truly inspired me to challenge my preconcieved notions and assumptions in the financial markets. Looking forward learn more about the research in 2024 from VGSF and to strive to become my ideal finance researcher.I also think it's time I started learning German!#vgsf #academia #researchinfinance #vienna #phdinfinance

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Inspiring meetings with EU policymakers in Brussels ahead early preparations for new FP10

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