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10 Steps to Increase Study Abroad Participation

Study Aborad Association

Studying abroad has been shown to give students invaluable learning opportunities that aren’t available in a traditional classroom setting. The study also showed that student learning outcomes were unique compared to the classroom. Studying abroad is becoming more and more popular every year. over the previous year. Study Abroad Table.

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Temple University leadership is under fire yet again for these 3 reasons

University Business

Following President Jason Wingard’s resignation last month , the Temple faculty union has now turned its ire towards Provost Gregory Mandel and Board of Trustees Chair Mitchell Morgan. More than 800 union members (81%) cast a vote of no confidence in their ability to lead one of the state’s leading research universities.

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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

SRHE

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and students’ unions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for students’ unions (at A6(2)(c)).

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In a 2017 history published in the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy , he wrote about what he calls “the little-remembered United Public Workers of America.” “And we do so without waiting for the legal framework to catch up with the idea that workers need unions in this country,” she said.

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Graduate student instructors and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize, 1,860 to 179, they announced this week. Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. Some 3,214 workers total were eligible to vote.

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