Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. “And we do so without waiting for the legal framework to catch up with the idea that workers need unions in this country,” she said.

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Faculty Higher Education Private Universities Student Union 109

University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

Following President Jason Wingard’s resignation last month , the Temple faculty union has now turned its ire towards Provost Gregory Mandel and Board of Trustees Chair Mitchell Morgan. More than 800 union members (81%) cast a vote of no confidence in their ability to lead one of the state’s leading research universities.

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Student Union Faculty Administration Research 52

SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The highest levels of work-life balance were found among those in catering role employed by the students’ union (so outsourced but with very different contractual conditions compared with staff outsourced via a private firm, with the former benefiting from a work timetable built around their teaching timetable). She blogs here.

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Higher Education Education Research Social Justice 64

Study Aborad Association

MAY 9, 2019

According to the 2018 IIE Open Doors report , more than 332,000 US students studied abroad during the 2016–2017 academic year, an increase of 2.3% However, despite the overall trend upward, students studying abroad still only account for a small percentage of total US students. Organize a Faculty Development Workshop.

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Study Abroad Development and Fund Raising Faculty Financial Aid 52