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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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Collegiate Commentary: Five communities created by staff-student projects

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Student-staff partnership is now a timeless concept and integral practice within Higher Education (HE) ( Bovill, 2019 ). Stemmed and unintended benefits to partnership working: Unsurprisingly, many of these projects spoke about several gains, but most notably these related to students’ employability skills.

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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

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by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and studentsunions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. He continues to call for the student activists to be punished by the University.

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The campaign gained new traction after the NLRB, which has historically flip-flopped on graduate studentsunion rights, said in 2016 that teaching assistants and student researchers at Columbia University were entitled to collective bargaining. Is this diversity newsletter?

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