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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With her dream in sight, she started pursuing a doctorate in higher education administration in 2020 at Baltimore’s Morgan State University, an HBCU. Hollingsworth – who has also taught and advised students at Johns Hopkins University – anticipates that she’ll graduate next May. After she receives her Ph.D.,

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. Doing that at a prestigious Research 1 institution was too important to pass up. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton.

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

CAPD

While at MIT, she served on the board for the Black StudentsUnion and presented recommendations for making the campus more inclusive. After graduating MIT, McClellan won a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Spain, where she studied applying machine learning to 5G networks.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Leslie Wilber, a member and graduate student who teaches English classes, said WVCW went public as a union in spring 2022 but had been organizing as far back as 2020. It’s affiliated with AFT Academics.

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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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Collegiate Commentary: Five communities created by staff-student projects

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Indeed, it evokes everything that partnership working should be, whilst also making clear that community is both the means and end product of instituting partnership within our universities ( Mercer-Mapstone and Abbott, 2020 ). Dec 9, 2022

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The value and values of third sector collaboration for equality of opportunity

SRHE

Among these, the Sutton Trust, with its blended focus on research, lobbying and activity delivery, and a message focused on access to the most elite professions and universities, has become the most prominent. These include campaigning organisations, grassroots community organisations, parent-teacher associations or studentsunions.