Committee reviews draft FTE‑based funding formula for UND, NDSU and a separate proposal for nine other campuses Legislative Council staff presented a draft funding formula that uses recent fall census FTE as the base (sample placeholder rate $7,000 per undergraduate FTE, graduate rate 1.5×) and separate incentive buckets for in‑demand completions and research; the draft would raise NDSU funding and reduce UND funding under the illustrative rates, prompting calls for hold‑harmless protections and further analytic detail.

A new funding formula for North Dakota's universities could shift millions between campuses, raising eyebrows and sparking debates about fairness and future implications.

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Reasons to Track Your Research Productivity

[Blog post] Reasons to Track Your Research Productivity ale-virtualcommunity-gettingpublished.blogspot.com/2026/02/reas... #ResearchProductivity #PublicationManagement #OnlineTools

Let’s personalise productivity with the weightiest metric yet: academic BMI Measuring researchers’ output mass against their body mass will incentivise even harder running on the academic treadmill, says Dariusz Jemielniak

Let’s personalise productivity with the weightiest metric yet: academic BMI

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Coaching for Academics: Tips to Thrive in Teaching, Research, and Life

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Visualising data with ggplot2 – Preparing figures for publication and outreach, Do., 14. Nov. 2024, 18:30 | Meetup The visualisations we use to present our findings matter as much as the text, if not more. We will walk through the steps to create beautiful figures that can make posters,

🎈 In #Zurich with no plans for tomorrow evening?
Why not learn to make fancy figures using #RStudio and #ggplot2? 📈

Join me at the #R-Ladies workshop (open to everyone)!

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Meta-Research: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the... A systematic review and meta-analysis of 55 articles abou...

New NIOO publication: Meta-research: The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the gender gap in research productivity within academia, by @antica_c and others. #metaresearch #academicperformance #gendergap #researchproductivity #pandemic #covid19
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.85427

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