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Strikes and unions: Graduate students marshal their forces nationwide

University Business

Temple’s ongoing graduate student strike catching national headlines did not happen in a vacuum. Across the country, many graduate programs at prolific higher ed institutions have gone on strike or unionized since fall 2022. Students seem very confident. “We

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One in five students at top universities consider dropping out over cost of living

The Guardian Higher Education

A quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, a new Russell Group StudentsUnions study reveals One in five students at Russell Group universities are considering dropping out because of the cost of living crisis, and a quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, the Observer can reveal. Education UK cost of living crisis Students UK news Higher education Universities

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Duke to Challenge Ph.D. Students’ Right to Unionize - Ryan Quinn, Inside Higher Ed

Ray Schroeder

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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The Metaverse explained for university leaders: challenges for universities ahead (3/4)

Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

The European Union is possibly the most active in seeking to impose guardrails around digital technologies. They should have both a Student Charter and an Information Technology Policy that are both reviewed annually.

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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 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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The incredible shrinking future of college

University Business

There was a line at the coffee shop in the student union. In 2021, Shippensburg University won the NCAA Division II Field Hockey championship, completing an undefeated season with a 3-0 victory over archrival West Chester. The “Ship” Raiders also won it all in 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2013, which I know because I saw it written in big letters on a banner festooning the fieldhouse on Ship’s campus in south-central Pennsylvania when I visited last month. Ship was in fine form.

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Asbury Revival Spurs Prayer Services at Secular Universities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Student prayer gatherings have recently cropped up at secular colleges and universities following the nonstop, two-week prayer service led by students at Asbury University. Students at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green who attended the spontaneous mass event at Asbury held a prayer service that drew several hundred people last Thursday on the National Collegiate Day of Prayer, the final day of the Asbury gathering.

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Johns Hopkins Grad Students Successfully Unionize

Confessions of a Community College Dean

students have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. The union is called the Teachers and Researchers United–United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers. “Approximately 3,200 student workers across JHU’s 65 Ph.D. The union says it’s still awaiting National Labor Relations Board official certification. students in achieving personal and professional success.” Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.

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Temple strike ends after grad students accept deal

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: 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. Last month, union members overwhelmingly rejected the university’s proposal.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. The other part is increasing the number of student majors through being more active on campus. … I use this model when I advise students.”

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Duke to Challenge Ph.D. Students’ Right to Unionize

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Duke University will legally challenge its graduate student workers’ latest effort to unionize. “In 2016 the National Labor Relations Board decided that graduate assistants at Columbia University—based on the specific facts at Columbia University—were employees and therefore had a right to unionize,” wrote Chris Simmons, a Duke official, in an email to Inside Higher Ed. students to help them reach their academic goals.

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Why Hope?

Hope College Network

Here you can find things like Greek Life, Student Congress, Student Activities Committee, TEDx, and more. Hope College has long-standing traditions that students have the ability to get involved with each year.

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Michigan grad workers striking over pay, trans health care

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The university also cut strikers’ pay and stopped paycheck deductions to pay union dues. candidate and a graduate student instructor who chairs GEO’s contract committee.

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Will universities fail the Turing Test?

SRHE

Will this be the next stage in the battle of cheating by students? Will it lead to an arms race of countering the AI programmes to foil the students cheating? Mike Sharples on the LSE Blog tried it out for a student assignment on learning styles. by Phil Pilkington.

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Colleges Are Outsourcing Their Teaching Mission to For-Profit Companies. Is That A Good Thing? (Richard Fossey*)

Higher Education Inquirer

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. Perhaps the faculty don't have the skills necessary to recruit students, manage enrollment, or design academic programs for an online format. He had over 600 online students!

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Gunman Kills Three and Injures Five at Michigan State

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Two were killed in the building that houses that College of Social Science and one in the student union. A gunman shot and killed three people at Michigan State University Monday night, NPR reported.

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Therapy mini horses boost student morale

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“Often during those high stress times, we hear students say, ‘I wish I had my dog here’ … because they’re used to their family pet being that therapeutic support for them at home,” says Ryan McCombs, director of the Purdue Fort Wayne Disability Access Center.

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Understanding the student experience better

SRHE

My interest in the student experience has been accompanied by an enormous increase in research in this area. This increase can be quantified, should you wish, by the number of papers cited under the rubric ‘Students’ in the SRHE Research Abstracts. Thirty years ago, students were a marginal, barely visible interest relative to the concerns of ‘management’ and ‘governance’ which were brought about by the changes by Jarrett, Sir Keith Joseph, Kenneth Baker and onwards.

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Temple Grad Students Start Strike

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union’s history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. ” The union says it represents nearly 750 of these employees. The Inquirer reported that their average annual pay is $19,500, “and the union has sought to raise it to over $32,000, which it said is a necessary cost-of-living adjustment.”

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Gunman Kills 3 and Injures 5 at Michigan State

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Two were killed in the building that houses that College of Social Science and one in the student union. A gunman shot and killed three people at Michigan State University Monday night, NPR reported. The shooter also injured five people, all of whom were listed in critical condition at a local hospital. Authorities said the gunman was a 43-year-old with no connection to Michigan State. He shot himself dead, off campus. No information was available about the victims.

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National Hazing Prevention Week 2021

Missouri State

National Hazing Prevention Week (NHPW) is designed to bring awareness to issues of hazing and empower campus communities to take action by educating students about what hazing is and the work we can all do to prevent hazing from happening. in Plaster Student Union.

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My Wild Adventure to Hope College

Hope College Network

Hope College offers admissions tours hosted by Hope College students themselves so that you can get a feel of the campus. You can also participate in an Anchor Day where you get to visit campus alongside other high school students. “The secret to getting ahead is getting started!”

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

EAB

Our LGBTQ students’ lives and wellbeing are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help. I’m lucky to have wonderful parents, but I recognize that is not a universal experience among LGBTQ+ students. Everyone has a role to play in student mental health. Blogs.

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Temple yanks health care, tuition benefits from strikers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Temple University has cut off striking graduate student workers’ health coverage and is demanding they pay tuition by March 9. “The fact that this cruel tactic unjustly punishes low-income students simply trying to get an education is reprehensible.”

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Community college resource center takes on male retention

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: To increase enrollment and retention of male students, Queensborough Community College in New York is investing in a Male Resource Center, aimed at its smallest populations of Black and Latino men to create equity, President Christine Mangino says.

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Offering academic flexibility after a campus shooting

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: After a gunman killed three students and seriously injured five more at Michigan State University on Feb. Students needed time to process and grieve, they said. Many students were upset by this decision. Many students said it was too soon to go back.

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Gunman kills three, injures five at Michigan State

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: A gunman shot and killed three students at Michigan State University Monday night. The shooter also injured five students, all of whom were listed in critical condition at a local hospital as of Tuesday morning.

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New! AIFS Global Education Centers

AIFS Abroad

Students can take courses, meet with staff and take advantage of libraries, technology and lounge areas at our centers. Located near the city center and student residence halls, AIFS has its own modern study center in Salzburg. Last Updated on April 8, 2022 by Cat Rogliano.

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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. ” “We become a union by acting like one,” she said.

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Boost Higher Ed Enrollment and Graduation Rates – The Power of Student Support and Belonging: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 148 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Elliot Felix

The Change Leader, Inc.

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs.

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Making financial wellness a priority for student success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Inside Higher Ed spoke with three financial aid professionals about their best strategies to strengthen this area for students. Mike Runiewicz, assistant vice provost and director of student financial services at Washington University in St.

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Looking back at the UC graduate worker strike (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Preparing for the start of winter quarter across the University of California system feels different in 2023, both because fall fizzled out without the usual closures and because my sense of the relationships I’ve cultivated with students through years of practiced intentionality is frayed.

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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.

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Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data—book review and author Q&A

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Do students self-segregate in ways that defeat diversity measures? With growing enrollments of students of color and women, the typical college student is no longer a White male aged eighteen to twenty-two. Universities have also changed how they serve diverse student bodies.”.

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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.