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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The same campus that recruited, supported, and welcomed me as a first-generation college student in the 1990s would likely be ill-equipped to do the same today. Disparate voices, opinions, and teachings blended in one campus environment designed to help students learn, think independently, and grow.

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National Hazing Prevention Week 2021

Missouri State

Hazing does not happen only in student organizations and fraternities and sororities, in fact, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) found that experienced some form of hazing while in college (NCAA, 2007; Allan and Madden, 2008). in Plaster Student Union. Contact the Office of Student Conduct.

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Offering academic flexibility after a campus shooting

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” ‘Cool Heads, Warm Hearts’ Dhriti Marri, an MSU sophomore, lives in a dorm across the street from the Student Union building, a popular hub of student activity with a food court and classrooms, and one of two buildings where the shootings took place. “It’s a struggle to find that balance.”

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. Following the 2008 Great Recession, lesser funded institutions all across the country cleaned house. percent in 2004 to 54.4 percent in 2021.