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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

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by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and studentsunions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. He continues to call for the student activists to be punished by the University.

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. In 2017, Yale student workers in eight departments even voted to unionize as part of an unusual “micro-unit” strategy. Is this diversity newsletter?

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Our LGBTQ students’ lives and well-being are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help

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I recently had the opportunity to participate in a media interview with Brandon Wolf , a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and a civil rights activist. Train staff to raise cultural competency and improve their understanding of how the marginalization of minority student groups is embedded in higher education.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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