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Columbia College Eliminates Vacancies After Faculty Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance. Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago Kim has received some criticism regarding staffing and budget management.

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Columbia College Eliminates Vacancies After Faculty Cuts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Adjunct professors at the college went on a weeks long strike in October 2023 with demands for job security and health insurance. Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago Kim has received some criticism regarding staffing and budget management.

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Frankly you need that list handy every day you work for a university. Write it all down immediately. (5) 7) Take walks.

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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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Charlie Baker Goes to the NCAA

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“If you’re a governor — at least in Massachusetts — you worry about 351 cities and towns and you love them all because they all matter, and if you’re doing your job, you and your administration are spending a lot of time with everybody.”

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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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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With 230 research institutions and more than 20,000 postdocs as members, the National Postdoctoral Association has seen postdocs struggle with fundamental life choices, such as whether to have a family and how to provide them with insurance, that should not be impacted by their funding source.

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