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Columbia College Eliminates Vacancies After Faculty Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance.

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Strong Networks Help Turn Black Faculty into University Presidents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The ACPS, conducted by the American Council on Education and the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (TIAA) Institute, found that 61% of college presidents surveyed were men, and 46% were white men. The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders.

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Columbia College Eliminates Vacancies After Faculty Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Columbia College Chicago has laid off 70 faculty and staff members with plans to remove 32 vacant positions to address financial concerns amid declining enrollment numbers. Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance.

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I suspect they apply whether you are faculty, staff, or student, and perhaps well beyond the academy as well. 4) Put all conversations you have with anyone in administration - about anything related to your public voice- in writing. This will help you obtain important supports, such as disability insurance, down the road.

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Community College Teams Up with For-Profit for Medical Assistant Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They do everything from handling patient records and insurance forms to obtaining vital signs, drawing blood, and administering electrocardiograms. Medical assistants are critical to the operation of doctor’s offices, hospitals, and clinics. Eight were first-generation, and eight were students of color.

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Strikes and unions: Graduate students marshal their forces nationwide

University Business

He believes that graduate students have increasingly assumed the brunt of teaching and research responsibilities compared to tenured faculty, and, according to one of his articles , the employment growth of graduate students was triple that of tenured faculty. It’s simply far cheaper for students to do it than tenured faculty.

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Temple Restores Health Coverage to Striking Grad Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Temple University announced Tuesday that it has restored the health insurance benefit it cut for striking members of the graduate student workers’ union. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Temple’s cutting of their health and tuition benefits drew national media attention.

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