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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”. link] Name Contact Location Behavioral Intervention Team (417)836-5527 DeanofStudentsOffice@missouristate.edu The online referral form is located at: [link] Plaster Student Union, Room 405 901 S.

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The incredible shrinking future of college

University Business

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

University Business

The university has seen a decline in undergraduate and graduate students since 2017 and a 14% crash since 2019 specifically. In January, Temple’s graduate student union went on its first-ever strike in school history. An overarching cause for tension is the school’s depleting enrollment.

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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 ).

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

SRHE

The highest levels of work-life balance were found among those in catering role employed by the studentsunion (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).

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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.