September 9, 2020
Lisa Hinchliffe and Roger Schonfeld, in a Scholarly Kitchen post: Today, ResearchGate and Springer Nature are jointly announcing the findings of their syndication pilot. […] Today’s white paper from the partners reports positive responses from authors and plan...
September 8, 2020
From the press release announcing $12 million, from the Charles Koch Foundation among others, to Arizona State University (ASU): ASU’s University Design Institute (UDI) will coordinate the initiative and support other universities to implement their own culture...
September 7, 2020
Richard Fisher’s follow-up Scholarly Kitchen post is as generously minded as the first. But the hippo in the room—monograph funding—is mostly (if not completely) ignored. Fisher imagines a future with more reader-level sales, at lower prices, but suggests (in...
September 4, 2020
Speaking of shady public university deals with for-profits: The University of Arizona has published the asset purchase and sale agreement it struck with Ashford University to create a new online nonprofit institution called the University of Arizona Global Campus....
September 4, 2020
The Century Foundation’s Robert Shireman: In May 2019, Purdue University’s CFO filed a nonprofit tax return (Form 990) with the IRS, followed in August with an application for tax-exempt status (Form 1023).3 Four months later, in December, the IRS granted the...
September 1, 2020
From an Inside Higher Ed commentary on contingency planning for college closures: Even before the pandemic took hold, many colleges were operating on razor-thin margins, with the enrollment trends and demographics of many colleges working against them. Thousands of...
