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Mental Health and Healthy Coping Mechanisms

Missouri State

Stay Away from Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms: When stress increases some students turn to drug and alcohol use to “let off steam”. Research shows that as alcohol use increases GPA decreases (Bolin et al., The impact of alcohol and marijuana use on academic achievement among college students. National Ave. 2024b, October).

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Temple University leadership is under fire yet again for these 3 reasons

University Business

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

SRHE

Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. A 2022 SRHE research award enabled us to conduct what is, to our knowledge, the first UK-wide study of HE-based ‘ancillary staff’ (a term we use to refer to cleaning, security and catering staff while acknowledging that this category is broader).

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10 Steps to Increase Study Abroad Participation

Study Aborad Association

Studying abroad has been shown to give students invaluable learning opportunities that aren’t available in a traditional classroom setting. The study also showed that student learning outcomes were unique compared to the classroom. Studying abroad is becoming more and more popular every year. over the previous year. Study Abroad Table.

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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

SRHE

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. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for studentsunions (at A6(2)(c)).

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In a 2017 history published in the Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy , he wrote about what he calls “the little-remembered United Public Workers of America.” “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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Collegiate Commentary: Five communities created by staff-student projects

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

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. As a result, the benefits of partnership can be multifaceted and all-encompassing ( Alison, 2017 ). Dec 9, 2022