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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Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 11, 2022

[This article is part of the Transparency-Accountability-Value series.] University employees staffed the campus bookstore, ran the student union, and performed janitorial services. National fast-food chains operate stores in countless student unions. Barnes & Noble now runs hundreds of college bookstores.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution. She blogs here.

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Study Aborad Association

MAY 9, 2019

Student engagement is important and helps build a community for travelers at the school. Those who studied abroad in the prior semesters can share their stories and photos to other students looking to participate in upcoming programs. If there are international students on your campus, get them involved in a multicultural fair!

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Two were killed in the building that houses the College of Social Science and one in the student union. Officials praised Michigan State students for staying in place during that time. Thomas Meixner , a professor at the University of Arizona, was killed in October, allegedly by Murad Dervish, an expelled graduate student.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

Image: Public university employees in states lacking collective bargaining rights aren’t letting that exclude them from the current wave of union organizing and action in higher education. “What’s happening now is a new regeneration of that concept, that wall-to-wall organizing,” said William A.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Examples include the University of Bridgeport and Connecticut State collaborating to offer shared courses and faculty resources. Shifting Faculty Roles in the Age of AI McNaughton discussed the need for faculty to adapt their roles in response to these technological advancements.

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