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Thousands Call for Expulsion of University of Wisconsin-Madison Student Spewing Racist Slurs and Advocating for Slavery

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

UW-Madison is once again letting its students down," said the Student Inclusion Coalition, a group formed after a 2019 incident in which the UW-Madison homecoming committee created a video excluding the historically Black Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority.

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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 ). 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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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 students’ unions 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.