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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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In this blog, I’ll outline the imperatives for campus administrators to act on, as well as five actions you can take today. Nearly 60% of students from those same surveys said they had heard such comments directly from teachers or administrators. The statistics are a harrowing call to action. My experience was no different.

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2023

The West Virginia United Students’ Union organized separate rallies on campus. Organizers said they want to halt the university’s planned reductions, seek an independent audit of its finances and reduce WVU’s administrative spending. They also called for increased spending by the state in higher education, among other things.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 29, 2023

West Virginia University students staged a walkout Monday to protest the proposed elimination of academic programs and show support for faculty and staff whose jobs are being targeted as the university addresses a $45 million budget shortfall. They're also calling for increased spending by the state in higher education, among other things.

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

In January, Temple’s graduate student union went on its first-ever strike in school history. The decision promoted then-president Wingard and other administrators to withdraw tuition assistance and cut health benefits to those participating, which the student union remarked as a “union-busting strategy.”

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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. But after that, everyone was expected to return to their academic routines.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Q: What is your philosophy on student success, and what do you see as the markers of it in the short and long term? A: The way I see student success is probably very different than the average university administrator. If it’s not connected to student success, let’s bring it lower on the priority scale.

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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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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?

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 20, 2021

Photo credit: Unsplash and Pixaby CC0, remix by Joséphine Foucher In this post, Lucy Coull discusses her role in supporting incoming Visiting Students at the University of Edinburgh, and how the new eTandem Global programme enabled students to experience meaningful language exchanges during the pandemic.

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Study and Go Abroad

AUGUST 21, 2023

These small fees will cover public transportation, administrative costs, student union costs, and more. However, while your tuition fees are free, you’ll still need to pay a small amount of money known as a semester contribution.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Despite earning a biochemistry degree at Lamar University with parental expectations of medical school, Doman found his true calling in student affairs. Working in the student union as an undergraduate led to leadership roles, eventually guiding him toward a career in higher education administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

Forty students were arrested during a sit-in of the administration building here [on Nov. The conversation with student protestors began almost immediately after the first tent was erected on Red Square,” said Dexter. 7],” said Dr. Charles H.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Duke will seek to present evidence demonstrating that its graduate students in their academic programs are not employees, and that the NLRB’s 2016 reasoning was incorrect.” 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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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This includes the development of two institutional partnership schemes (see: Sims et al , 2014 ; Bohnacker-Bruce, 2019 ) and the integration of students within core strategic committees, such as our Student Advisory Council and Race Equality Action Group.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Two were killed in the building that houses that College of Social Science and one in the student union. Ad keywords: administrators sensitive studentaffairs Editorial Tags: Live Updates Is this diversity newsletter?: No information was available about the victims. The shootings started shortly after 8 p.m. Hide by line?:

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

For instance, the Trump Administration is providing a new $5 million pilot program that will support the creation or improved use of open textbooks in higher education. Gizmodo reports that the university is tracking the swipes of freshmen ID cards as a way to determine if these students are at risk of dropping out.

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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. Oh, this is interesting. Right, right.

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