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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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Miranda McClellan ’18, MEng ’19 awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarship

CAPD

Hailing from Texas, McClellan earned a BS in computer science and a minor in African Studies from MIT in June 2018 and received an MEng in computer science in June 2019. While at MIT, she served on the board for the Black StudentsUnion and presented recommendations for making the campus more inclusive.

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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 ). Additionally, Atkins’ (2022) podcast project aimed at supporting novice researchers in successfully conducting evidence reviews is a testament to the democratizing nature embedded within partnership work.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Barron said an inspiring example of making change without collective bargaining came from West Virginia’s statewide public school worker strikes in 2018 and 2019. “There’s a lot of things in our, quote, arsenal to do that can be successful.”

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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)).