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Report – College Spending in a Turbulent Decade

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College Spending in a Turbulent Decade: Findings From the Delta Cost Project, A Delta Data Update 2000–2010, December 2012

  • “Two years after the onset of the Great Recession, nonprofit colleges and universities found themselves struggling with their finances. Average per-student spending on academics declined in fiscal year (FY) 2010, and despite per-student spending cuts to prerecession levels at four-year institutions, students shouldered a larger share of the cost this time around. Even in private nonprofit colleges, average educational spending per student declined for the first time in a decade. However, it is higher education’s most accessible institutions—community colleges—that took the greatest financial hit in 2010.1 As funding failed to keep pace with historic increases in enrollment, educational spending per student plummeted to its lowest level in a decade.”

    • Principles for financial market infrastructure: disclosure framework and assessment methodology

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    Principles for financial market infrastructure: disclosure framework and assessment methodology, December 2012 “The Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published a disclosure framework and assessment methodology for their Principles for financial market infrastructures (PFMIs), the new international standards for financial market infrastructures: the disclosure framework… Continue Reading

    GunPolicy.org provides evidence-based, public health-oriented information on armed violence around the globe

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    “The international bulletin of firearm injury prevention since 1997, Gun Policy News provides daily global and regional bulletins of small arms policy, armed violence prevention and gun control news published in mass media. GunPolicy.org is hosted by the Sydney School of Public Health, the University of Sydney. The School provides internationally recognised leadership in public… Continue Reading

    Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature

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    Embedded Academic Librarianship: A Review of the Literature. Stephanie J. Schulte, Assistant Professor and Education and Reference Services Coordinator, Health Sciences Library, The Ohio State University. Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 4 Oct. 2012 “Objectives – The purpose of this review is to examine the development of embedded librarianship, its multiple meanings, and activities… Continue Reading

    Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds

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    Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds “is the fifth installment in the National Intelligence Council’s series aimed at providing a framework for thinking about the future. As with previous editions, we hope that this report will stimulate strategic thinking by identifying critical trends and potential discontinuities. We distinguish between megatrends, those factors that will likely occur… Continue Reading

    Local Insights Digital Report – Local Search and Advertising Review

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    “The YPSM Local Insights Digital Report focuses on uncovering trends across the rapidly evolving local advertising ecosystem. This Insights Report is based on internal data from more than 2.2 billion searches and 39 billion impressions from a full year across the YPSM Local Ad Network’s 300+ online and mobile publishers…Across the YPSM apps, our marquee… Continue Reading