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The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many are helping each other navigate their sense of duty to their students of color, to their community, to their families, and to themselves. Eventually, they documented their experiences in a 2005 article, "Retaining Each Other: Narratives of Two African American Women in the Academy."

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2023 Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“[From] January 2022 to June 2023, we showed that there has been a vast acceleration of unionization by student workers [and], in particular, graduate assistants but also undergraduate student workers,” said William Herbert, executive director of Hunter’s National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.