Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

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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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

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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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2023

A quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, a new Russell Group Students’ Unions 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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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The organisation wants student unions, in particular, to take a “zero tolerance” approach to any signs of support for Hamas, which was responsible for the attacks in southern Israel on 7 October that killed more than 1,400 people, mostly Israeli civilians, and for capturing 200 hostages.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

As PA Media reports, Prof Arif Ahmed , director for freedom of speech and academic freedom at the Office for Students (OfS), said many universities and colleges in England have “international arrangements” – including admitting overseas students on scholarships and hosting institutes partly funded by foreign governments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

We need to take the conversation to the students.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

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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University Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

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.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In just 16 days, UNC-Chapel Hill sent out a second report of an ‘armed and dangerous person,’ causing thousands of students, faculty and staff to shelter in place on campus. According to UNC-Chapel Hill officials, the alert was issued because of reports that a person brandished a weapon at the student union.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 29, 2023

West Virginia University students staged a walkout Monday to protest the proposed elimination of academic programs and show support for faculty and staff whose jobs are being targeted as the university addresses a $45 million budget shortfall.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Letter claims student union trying to force debating society to disinvite former university professor over transgender views A group of Oxford academics claim “coercion and financial threats” are being used to force the Oxford Union debating club to cancel an appearance by Kathleen Stock.

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2023

The West Virginia United Students’ Union organized separate rallies on campus. Students were encouraged to wear red in honor of the red bandanas West Virginia coal miners fighting to unionize wore during their march on Blair Mountain , the largest armed uprising in the United States since the Civil War.

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CAPD

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Below is a sneak peek of our upcoming two events lined up, with more to come: Joy Ekuta : Co-Founder and Chief Strategy & Operations Officer at Retrospect, affiliated with Black Students Union, African Student Association and MISTI (Mexico, Israel, Chile).

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and students’ unions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for students’ unions (at A6(2)(c)).

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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.”

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University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

There was a line at the coffee shop in the student union. 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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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2023

Malik describes the fact that the Oxford student union was forced to retract a public demand that “gender critical” feminist Kathleen Stock should be no-platformed as a “blatant denial of free speech”. But he is wrong to invoke freedom of speech to defend attempts to silence certain views.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 3, 2023

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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Missouri State

APRIL 23, 2024

We here at the Office of Student Conduct wish you a happy April! Office of Student Conduct Plaster Student Union 405 (417) 836-5527 StudentConduct@MissouriState.edu Check out more events just like these at this link ! Please see our contact information below.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

“In the meantime, we remain committed to ensuring a positive, rewarding and successful experience for all our graduate students. Finally, I want to thank our graduate students, union representatives and all members of our community for engaging in a constructive and respectful union election.”

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

In January, Temple’s graduate student union went on its first-ever strike in school history. The decision promoted then-president Wingard and other administrators to withdraw tuition assistance and cut health benefits to those participating, which the student union remarked as a “union-busting strategy.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

“TRU has been around since 2015, and now we are heading into the next stage of our movement to support grad student workers to do the work we came to JHU to do,” said Andrew Eneim, a graduate worker, in a Wednesday union news release. That release says the university’s Ph.D.

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CAPD

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While at MIT, she served on the board for the Black Students’ Union and presented recommendations for making the campus more inclusive. Hailing from Texas, McClellan earned a BS in computer science and a minor in African Studies from MIT in June 2018 and received an MEng in computer science in June 2019.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Duke will seek to present evidence demonstrating that its graduate students in their academic programs are not employees, and that the NLRB’s 2016 reasoning was incorrect.” 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.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

A student group, registered with your Student Union, organises a virtual event, hosted on a third-party application ( ZOOM for example) using a license owned by the controversial speaker themselves. That is already true today given the vile abuse faced by female academics in particular.

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Hope College Network

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Here you can find things like Greek Life, Student Congress, Student Activities Committee, TEDx, and more. You also have opportunities to get involved culturally on campus by going to events hosted by the Asian Student Union, Latino Student Organization, Black Student Union, Pan-African Student Association, and more.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Faculty Graduate students Unions/unionization Image Source: @Kolslaw41/Twitter Image Caption: A Temple University graduate student workers strike rally. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Missouri State

AUGUST 21, 2023

Take a moment to get to know the faces of the Office of Student Conduct. Our staff is here to help and educate you. Come stop by and see what the office has to offer!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

[The union] members would continue to receive free tuition for their programs of study, on average, valued at about $20,000.” ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty studentaffairs teachinglearning Editorial Tags: College administration Graduate education Graduate students Unions/unionization Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

I thought about how quiet I’d been as an undergrad, and I felt there was something I needed to do and should do at MIT to get more African American and minority students in and to make it more hospitable.” Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 11, 2022

University employees staffed the campus bookstore, ran the student union, and performed janitorial services. National fast-food chains operate stores in countless student unions. Over time, however, universities began outsourcing almost all of their auxiliary services.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

An added factor in collaboration was the growth in specialist staff within students’ unions and NUS. The latter had a strong and broad-based research team, especially strong in areas of national interest such as housing and financial support and student debt.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Two were killed in the building that houses that College of Social Science and one in the student union. No information was available about the victims. The shootings started shortly after 8 p.m. Michigan State sent out a shelter-in-place order shortly after the first shooting, which was lifted early this morning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. UF’s African American studies program was started in 1969. In the aftermath of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., there were protests on campus.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Temple said its records show that more than 80 percent of the graduate student union members weren’t striking as of Thursday—the day after it emailed the demand to pay tuition. “The withdrawal of a tuition waiver is unprecedented,” wrote Andrew Crook, an American Federation of Teachers spokesman, in an email.

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