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Cardiff students’ union bans chinos and blue shirts after violence

The Guardian Higher Education

Incident at university clubbing night leads to preppy staples being barred from union premises They may have been preppy fashion championed by Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein but chinos and blue shirts have now been banned by Cardiff University studentsunion after being associated with a violent incident at a nightclub.

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Rutgers University Unions Go on Strike After Year of Failed Contract Negotiations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT , Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union , and AAUP-BHSNJ picketed on the New Jersey school’s three main campuses in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, demanding improvements such as salary increases, improved job security for adjunct faculty, and funding for graduate students, union representatives said.

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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This leaves minority students to have to create “counter-spaces of community,” for themselves, on their own. Hollingsworth’s dissertation directly examines this ongoing phenomenon, focusing particularly on the experiences of Black women students leading Black student union chapters at PWIs, says the Ph.D.

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Indian students’ union urges UK to retain graduate visas

The Guardian Higher Education

Chair of union for Indian students and alumni says visa scheme is vital for attracting high-paying international students to UK Indian students and alumni in the UK have urged the British prime minister to retain graduate visas, rejecting claims they are little more than “Deliveroo visas” that allow overseas students access to low-paid jobs in the (..)

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Helping People Be Their Best

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It not only revitalizes the campus but also brings new fields of study to the students and faculty. She also hired an assistant dean for diversity, who has started Black and Latinx student union groups. The Board of Trustees is now just under 25% people of color, says De Vinne.

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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Disparate voices, opinions, and teachings blended in one campus environment designed to help students learn, think independently, and grow.

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U of Alabama Requires Black and LGBTQ+ Groups to Relocate From Student Center

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The University of Alabama is requiring the Black Student Union, a minority advocacy group, to close its current office in the flagship’s student center, according to a BSU Instagram post.