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With the dollar’s declining value taken into account, new data shows that real wages grew by half a percent. But pay remains well below pre-pandemic levels, and full-time women and part-timers continue to receive less than others. For the first time since the pandemic began, the average salary has risen for full-time U.S. faculty members after adjusting for inflation, according to the American Association of University Professors’ annual pay survey. But while that’s welcome news, the raise...

A $20 million gift will fund a leadership development center for students at Washington University in St. Louis, creating new leadership trainings and funding research. A fall 2023 Student Voice survey by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse found just over one-third (34 percent) of college students have held a leadership position within a sport, club or group, with an additional 9 percent planning to do so.

According to a recent report by the MTA, Massachusetts public higher education faculty salaries are trailing behind, revealing significant disparities. Continue reading for more details.

In New York City, completion rates for the revamped federal form are down a whopping 45 percent. City agencies, higher ed partners and advocacy groups are pooling their resources to get back on track. Well before New York governor Kathy Hochul declared April “Financial Aid Awareness Month,” Kristen Harris was taking an all-hands-on-deck approach to improving her city’s financial aid form submission rate.

College applications climbed by almost 2,000 percent in 2022, the year of the Russian invasion. Most students chose low-cost courses with minimal entrance requirements. Ukraine will conduct random inspections of higher education institutions after an “abnormal increase” in the number of applications from draft-age men in 2022, according to the country’s State Service of Education Quality.

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Contrary to common belief, forgetfulness is not a sign of stupidity but rather a mechanism for smarter decision-making.

A House committee is holding its first hearing on the disastrous launch of the new FAFSA. Watch here and follow along for live updates. The botched launch of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA), which has disrupted college admissions deadlines and shaken confidence in the Education Department, is coming under scrutiny today on Capitol Hill.

As DEI bans impact colleges nationwide, many institutions are renaming their offices to something more innocuous. The results have been varied. Not long after Texas passed SB 17, a law prohibiting diversity, equity and inclusion programs at public colleges and universities, many institutions chose to rename their former DEI offices, using words like “belonging,” “community engagement” and “student development” in the new titles.

London’s stock markets closed positively on Wednesday, as investors processed a higher-than-anticipated inflation report from the US, while Tesco paced the gains following favourable results.