Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Temple University graduate students began striking Tuesday for the first time in that union’s history, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The Inquirer reported that their average annual pay is $19,500, “and the union has sought to raise it to over $32,000, which it said is a necessary cost-of-living adjustment.”

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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 11, 2022

University employees staffed the campus bookstore, ran the student union, and performed janitorial services. National fast-food chains operate stores in countless student unions. They aren't raising enough money to pay all their administrators and bureaucrats. What the hell is going on? I don't know.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

Many students were upset by this decision. A petition started by junior Kameron Cone asking MSU administrators to move to hybrid or online classes for the rest of the semester had garnered over 25,000 signatures as of Thursday night. ” “Students will have the entire semester to make that decision,” he added.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

” As the AAUP puts it: “US faculty are steadily losing the rights of tenure, but far less from bombastic politicians weakening their protections than from universities quietly refusing to grant them.” Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A first set of findings from the project relates to how organisational, administrative and scholarly processes work in ways which render this group invisible. They are both based in the School of Education, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. She blogs here.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

[At Georgia] I was largely in charge of … enrollment management and student success. Now I’m provost, so I’m basically overseeing all of those, plus research and faculty development and institutional infrastructure. A: The way I see student success is probably very different than the average university administrator.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

“It’s about setting up that mind-set: even though you don’t have a full-time job, the concept of saving, the concept of living within your means, budgeting,” shares Dana Kelly, vice president of professional development for the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators. Share here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Student, faculty, and public protestors come together at Washington Square Park near New York University on April 23, the day after NYU leaders directed the NYPD to arrest over 130 protestors. Injured students have posted selfies on their social media of wounds inflicted by rubber bullets. 7],” said Dr. Charles H.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

The faculty says we recognize our graduate students as early-career colleagues. But the structure of the university and financial support for graduate students say something else. Yes, they’re still students engaged in coursework and supervised research as they earn advanced degrees. 16, 2022.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. Matthew Thomas, a Duke teaching assistant who co-chairs that union, told Inside Higher Ed that “Duke is declaring war on the grad union movement.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

She pointed out that while these programs are in demand by students, they are typically small in scale and do not generate substantial revenue. The administrative costs associated with these programs can be high, posing a dilemma for institutions in balancing demand with financial sustainability.

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