Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

"I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and learned how to serve." --Albert Schweitzer While growing up in the Arkansas Delta, my parents, preachers, and teachers agreed on one thing above all else: education is the engine of opportunity for individual success and the transformation of the Black community

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Roompact

MARCH 26, 2023

This blog series features different writers responding to the prompt, “What is the future of the RA role?” Guest Post by Kendra Sherman, Professional Staff Member, Seton Hall University Lifesaver. Friend. Resource. These and many others are the expectations of Resident Assistants everywhere. The variety of hats that RAs wear means that these individuals develop.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

Patricia Bruckenthal Patricia Bruckenthal has been named dean of the School of Nursing at Stony Brook University in New York. Bruckenthal holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from Stony Brook University and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 26, 2023

Greetings from the Student Equity Forum at University of Technology, in Sydney (some of the slides are available). I signed up because it was free, and I happen to be in Sydney. But this turns out to be a big event, both in terms of the more than 100 people present, but also the weight of the topic.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

Corporation denies breach of impartiality rules by ‘rigging’ show in favour of Oxford and Cambridge The BBC has rejected charges of elitism aimed at its University Challenge quiz show and defended allowing separate Oxford and Cambridge colleges to enter the contest while limiting other universities to one entry each. The long-running show, which will broadcast a quarter-final match on Monday in its 52nd series, typically includes at least 10 entries from Oxbridge colleges, with the remaining 18

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Higher Education Whisperer

MARCH 26, 2023

The Australian Government response to the Future of Work and Workers report, has been released. Unfortunately, despite the titles, this is not a response to the report, just a statement of what the government was already doing.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 26, 2023

The Temple University graduate student workers’ strike, which lasted over a month and got ugly when the university pulled tuition and health insurance benefits, has come to an end. Temple University’s graduate student workers have approved a new union contract that includes thousands of dollars in raises, ending a walkout that began Jan. 31 and had included the university temporarily axing strikers’ health coverage and tuition remission.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 26, 2023

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. Matthew Thomas, a Duke teaching assistant who co-chairs that union, told Inside Higher Ed that “Duke is declaring war on the grad union movement.” “Undergrads, postdocs, non-tenure-track faculty and academic researchers are forming unions,” Thomas said of the national picture.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 26, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle Published in February of 2023. I finished reading The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration the same day I received my copy of Bryan Alexander's new book Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 26, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Before he became among the latest symbols of corporate irresponsibility, Sam Bankman-Fried was a staunch advocate for effective altruism—the debts we owe to future generations. But what about the debts we owe the past? How should we commemorate events and figures when their legacies are fraught or at best ambiguous? In terms of memorials, this society is better at tearing down than building up.

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