Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. 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. Dr. Susan D. Dr. Susan D.

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Study and Go Abroad

AUGUST 21, 2023

As of 2014, the German government got rid of tuition fees for all students (yes, including international students!) Luckily, there are more public universities — schools funded by the government — in Germany than private universities — independent schools that rely on funding from tuition fees.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 11, 2022

University employees staffed the campus bookstore, ran the student union, and performed janitorial services. National fast-food chains operate stores in countless student unions. Now, the universities are outsourcing their core mission: teaching students. Barnes & Noble now runs hundreds of college bookstores.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Editorial Tags: Graduate students Unions/unionization Image Source: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Image Caption: Graduate student workers on strike at University of California, Los Angeles, Nov. Nostalgia doesn’t help us live in the present, though. 16, 2022.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. Many of my own students regard reading a book as too much of an effort. Staffing Does Stanford have more administrators than undergrads?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The federal government’s COVID assistance played a critical role in temporarily sustaining institutions, particularly smaller colleges, which otherwise faced the risk of closure. She pointed out that while these programs are in demand by students, they are typically small in scale and do not generate substantial revenue.

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