Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 20, 2024
This leaves minority students to have to create “counter-spaces of community,” for themselves, on their own. Hollingsworth’s dissertation directly examines this ongoing phenomenon, focusing particularly on the experiences of Black women students leading Black student union chapters at PWIs, says the Ph.D.
University Business
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
Herbert cites the cost of graduate student labor to be a leading catalyst to this trend. It’s simply far cheaper for students to do it than tenured faculty. Another culprit in the rise of student unions is the insecurity students experienced during the pandemic.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 15, 2023
I thought about how quiet I’d been as an undergrad, and I felt there was something I needed to do and should do at MIT to get more African American and minority students in and to make it more hospitable.” Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union.
Teaching Matters Academic Support
AUGUST 23, 2024
.” – From a recent report by the Russell Group Students’ Unions. The promise of personal and professional development, developing knowledge of a subject you love, and the prospect of a career in your chosen field have all been strong magnets for students. The effect of these financial pressures can be huge on our students.
CAPD
DECEMBER 8, 2023
In August 2024, she will join the program’s 150 scholars arriving from 43 countries and 114 universities from around the world. While at MIT, she served on the board for the Black Students’ Union and presented recommendations for making the campus more inclusive.
Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Some things changed in my husband’s role and I was missing some of the aspects of the roles I held before I started full-time assessment, so I’m transitioning back to student union work soon. So for the past two and a half years, I've been all in. What advice do you have for me as a new director or someone new to this field?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The firm, which officially relaunched in January 2024, has already completed nearly 50 searches in its first year of operation far exceeding its initial goal of 10. Despite earning a biochemistry degree at Lamar University with parental expectations of medical school, Doman found his true calling in student affairs.
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