budget & appropriations Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/budget-appropriations/ A Blog by ACE Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:44:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png budget & appropriations Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/budget-appropriations/ 32 32 Waiting for the Dominoes to Fall https://www.higheredtoday.org/2017/02/15/student-aid-perspectives-waiting-dominoes-fall/ Wed, 15 Feb 2017 15:44:26 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=7932 By Jon Fansmith This post was originally written for Student Aid Perspectives, an occasional series produced by the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Uncertainty reigns in Washington, DC these days. The surprise election of Donald Trump and the resulting one-party control of the legislative and executive branches makes substantial changes in federal policy over the next two years nearly ...

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]]> ISU President Steven Leath: Prioritize Agricultural Research https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/08/03/isu-president-steven-leath-prioritize-agriculture-research/ Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:36:43 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=3500 Iowa State University President Steven Leath on why the United States must elevate agricultural research as a national priority. By the year 2050, the world population is projected to increase by roughly one third, to 9.6 billion. This creates what I believe will be the greatest challenge in history: how to produce as much food in the next 35 years as ...

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]]> Fighting Food Insecurity on Campus https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/06/29/fighting-food-insecurity-on-campus/ Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:47:44 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=3355 Christopher Nellum looks at what we can do about the problem, which has grown significantly in the years since the Great Recession. College and university administrators and leaders around the country increasingly are realizing that undergraduate students are among the millions of Americans who experience food insecurity, or a lack of resources to obtain nutritional food. The numbers are striking. Feeding ...

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]]> Will Performance-Based Funding Further Disadvantage Disadvantaged Students? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2015/03/24/will-performance-based-funding-further-disadvantage-disadvantaged-students/ Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:01:28 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=2930 Lyle McKinney of the University of Houston and Linda Serra Hagedorn of Iowa State University look at the Texas Student Success Points Model. Performance-based funding (PBF) is becoming increasingly popular as an accountability tool to reward higher education institutions for specific outcomes believed to enhance student progress and completion. A recent report indicates that 35 states have either implemented, or are ...

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