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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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Strikes and unions: Graduate students marshal their forces nationwide

University Business

Herbert cites the cost of graduate student labor to be a leading catalyst to this trend. It’s simply far cheaper for students to do it than tenured faculty. Another culprit in the rise of student unions is the insecurity students experienced during the pandemic.

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Gunman Forces UNC to Lock Down for Second Time This Semester

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A man allegedly used a gun to threaten an employee of Alpine Bagel, located in the student union, officials said during a press conference. No shots were fired.

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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.

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University of Melbourne vice-chancellor calls for free university education

The Guardian Higher Education

Speaking to students and staff on Tuesday evening, Maskell said it had become “sadly fashionable” to assume students taking out loans to pay for university was a “natural order of things”, rather than a policy decision.

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Duke University graduate students win union election in a landslide

University Business

If the results are certified, PhD students who work at Duke as teaching assistants and researchers will form the largest graduate student union at a private university in the South. The final vote count on Tuesday was 1,000 votes for the union to 131 against.