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Columbia Administration, Student Organizers Talks Fail

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Columbia University administration leaders and student organizers failed to reach agreement in negotiations that might have included the university’s divestment from Israel.

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Seton Hall University Students Protest Alleged Lack of Support for Africana Studies Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“It’s sad that Black students on Seton Hall’s campus are still organizing to receive fundamental resources that we are entitled to.” The event was organized by the group Protect African American Studies (AFAM) Movement. Many even slept there overnight, blocking the stairs and access to some offices. “We

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Treating an infection: How your institution must address sexual violence

University Business

The Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (“RAINN”) reports that 26% of female and nearly 7% of male undergraduate students experience rape or sexual assault through physical force, violence or incapacitation. However, unlike the larger culture, college administrators must reject normalizing sexual abuse.

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Biomedicine Student's Ambition Intersects with Passion, Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Gonzales wants to make sure that other students have the same opportunities that he has, so he’s working to re-establish a Hispanic graduate student organization at Duke. He has also been a peer mentor in the Sloan Scholar program, helping students in different departments and cohorts connect with each other.

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Higher ed’s worst free speech offenders of 2022

University Business

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Freedom (FIRE) distinguished the colleges who most egregiously botched a faculty or student organization’s right to tenants that align with free speech in 2022. Hamline’s defense: “Respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.”

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Stanford questioned over response to 'Mein Kampf' photo

Confessions of a Community College Dean

It isn’t clear from college officials who filed the complaint, though a Stanford spokeswoman, in response to questions from Inside Higher Ed , said a “concern” was raised by an unnamed student organization. 25, the FIRE official said that such administrative action “chills expressive activity.

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Punishment of students at Indian university raises concerns

Confessions of a Community College Dean

When it was released in January, the series India: The Modi Question , which investigates Narendra Modi’s role in riots in Gujarat that left more than 1,000 people dead in 2002, was condemned by the country’s government, with several universities issuing warnings to students against screening the documentary.