University Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. There was a line at the coffee shop in the student union. Ship was in fine form.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Duke University will legally challenge its graduate student workers’ latest effort to unionize. 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.”

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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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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a media interview with Brandon Wolf , a survivor of the 2016 mass shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando and a civil rights activist. Content warning: this blog contains discussions of gun violence and hate speech. Unfortunately, this was not the case.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

Right-to-work laws mean that even when a union earns official recognition and negotiates a contract with the employer, the workers the union is supposed to represent still don’t have to pay dues supporting it.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 24, 2016

Paul encouraged us to join him on his “King year 2016,” by presenting us a “3-point challenge,” which includes the following: Identify who you are Develop some substance Light up the Tower of Hope Now is the time to think about how you view yourself and whether or not your identity is rooted in something other than the surface level.

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