Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. The same campus that recruited, supported, and welcomed me as a first-generation college student in the 1990s would likely be ill-equipped to do the same today. Dr. Susan D. Dr. Susan D.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, paused implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act shortly after last years general election, citing concerns that the law passed by the Conservative government potentially protected the use of hate speech while exposing universities and student unions to bureaucratic and legal costs.

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Study and Go Abroad

AUGUST 21, 2023

As of 2014, the German government got rid of tuition fees for all students (yes, including international students!) Luckily, there are more public universities — schools funded by the government — in Germany than private universities — independent schools that rely on funding from tuition fees.

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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. Now, the universities are outsourcing their core mission: teaching students. Barnes & Noble now runs hundreds of college bookstores.

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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. Finally, we conducted 20 interviews with ancillary staff, recruited through a diversity of routes and with a diversity of backgrounds and roles.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. Many of my own students regard reading a book as too much of an effort. Staffing Does Stanford have more administrators than undergrads?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

Editorial Tags: Graduate students Unions/unionization Image Source: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Image Caption: Graduate student workers on strike at University of California, Los Angeles, Nov. Nostalgia doesn’t help us live in the present, though. 16, 2022.

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