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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Dr. John Hope Franklin Award was created in 2004 to pay tribute to Franklin, a historian, writer, educator, and humanitarian who made significant contributions to shaping the perspective of American history in the 20th century. Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union.

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Student-Staff Partnership: Gakuen-sai (Campus Festival)

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Student committees lead this biggest annual event on campus, and groups of students from societies or classes participate in it by organising concerts, food stalls, exhibitions, poster presentations, demonstrations or performances. This is the cultural event of the students, by the students, for the students.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

percent in 2004 to 54.4 Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6 percent in 2021.