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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. In addition to the long-term issues, 2023 has been nothing short of a rocky year.

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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 ). Some recent practice related to student-staff partnership is looking at our Student Academic Representatives (StARs) scheme , which is administrated by Winchester Student Union.

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

SRHE

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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Offering academic flexibility after a campus shooting

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Many students were upset by this decision. A petition started by junior Kameron Cone asking MSU administrators to move to hybrid or online classes for the rest of the semester had garnered over 25,000 signatures as of Thursday night. But after that, everyone was expected to return to their academic routines.