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Student Athlete Suicide Rates Have Doubled Since 2002

Confessions of a Community College Dean

College athlete suicide rates have doubled over the past two decades, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

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What it Means to Sit at the Intersection of Blackness, Queerness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University. in African American studies and sociology from EIU; and an Associate of Arts in African American studies from Olive-Harvey Community College. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.

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Anchors Away: Building Community, Mindfulness, Equity, and Reflection

The Scholarly Teacher

Reflection What and Why: Brookfield (2002) writes that critical reflective teaching involves examining assumptions that shape teaching practices and Barkley and Major (2022) contend that effective teachers constantly reflect to improve their understanding of their teaching practices. F., & Major, C.H. Patricia Cross Academy (n.d.)

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Pro-Palestinian Students Demand Divestment From Israel

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Students first pushed universities to divest from companies with ties to Israel in 2002, though none did. As the war between Israel and Hamas rages on, many college students sympathetic to the Palestinian cause are focusing their protest efforts on a singular goal: getting their institutions to divest from companies with ties to Israel.

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Survey: Pay Equity Lags for Higher Ed Administrators

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Though the number of women in higher education leadership roles has increased since 2002, pay equity hasn’t kept pace, according to the Administrators in Higher Education Survey released Tuesday by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

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Contingent faculty, grad workers a growing part of colleges

Confessions of a Community College Dean

These combined data show part-time faculty have made up about half of all nonmedical instructional staff faculty in public and private nonprofit colleges and universities since 2002 (the report didn’t look at for-profit institutions).

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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Reports of this issue go back decades: see, for example, this 2002 article in Science , which asked, “What will it take to create a single employment class (status) for all postdocs, regardless of funding source?” Not a New Problem.

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