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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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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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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 ). 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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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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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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Spotlight on Voices of Movers and Shakers: The power to unite people in a way that little else does

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Photo Credit: Student Union EUSU Exec 2019/20 I was the first person in this role so it called for a lot of proactivity to get things done. I was lucky that there was a lot of support from everyone and willingness to do everything possible to get international students involved.