Remove Administration Remove Food Remove Student Union
article thumbnail

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. For her Ph.D., she decided it was time to take the leap.

article thumbnail

Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.

Title IX 327
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Offering academic flexibility after a campus shooting

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. She usually goes there every night to get food, but she had eaten elsewhere that evening.

article thumbnail

Colleges Are Outsourcing Their Teaching Mission to For-Profit Companies. Is That A Good Thing? (Richard Fossey*)

Higher Education Inquirer

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?

article thumbnail

While Some Institutions Choose Police Response, Others Choose to Listen

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brown University and Northwestern University (NU) made concessions to their students to end their encampments. NU has agreed to create a culturally supportive space for Middle East/North African (MENA) and Muslim students. It will also consider more culturally appropriate food in their dining halls. 7],” said Dr. Charles H.

article thumbnail

FDA: College students using ‘honey packets’ to enhance sex put themselves at risk (Voice of America Student Union)

Higher Education Inquirer

But as Charles Trepany reports in USA Today , the Food and Drug Administration has warned that ingredients in the supplements could be potentially dangerous. November 2024) VOA's Student Union is an online community for college and university students in the U.S., including international students.