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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Doing that at a prestigious Research 1 institution was too important to pass up. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. There will be a table talk with a faculty member who will discuss research. there were protests on campus.

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Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data—book review and author Q&A

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Park tackles in her book, Race on Campus: Debunking Myths with Data. At the end of this book review, we also have an exclusive Q&A with Park. A secondary goal of the book is to unpack the origins of race-related myths in higher education, and critique the persistent spread of misinformation. Who’s really self-segregating?

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Understanding the student experience better

SRHE

My interest in the student experience has been accompanied by an enormous increase in research in this area. This increase can be quantified, should you wish, by the number of papers cited under the rubric ‘Students’ in the SRHE Research Abstracts. Hence the growth in the research into the student experience.

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Will universities fail the Turing Test?

SRHE

is one of the best essay writers and does the research for you!’. In the competitive, neo-liberal, league-table driven universities of precarity, publish-or-be-redundant monetizing research (add your own epithets here), will AI bots be used to meet increasingly demanding performance targets? Other AI essay forgers are available.

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Building Assessment Culture One Cup of Coffee at a Time

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Some things changed in my husband’s role and I was missing some of the aspects of the roles I held before I started full-time assessment, so I’m transitioning back to student union work soon. I'm in a couple, two different book clubs. So for the past two and a half years, I've been all in. What do you do in your spare time?

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Freedom of speech and students’ unions

SRHE

The book identifies four possible responses to the issue of free speech on campus: libertarian; liberal; guarded liberal; and no-platforming. Unlike No Platform policies it was not debated by the student body. Political objections by some studentsunions (and NUS) to PREVENT were based on the perception that it was Islamophobic.

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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

SRHE

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and studentsunions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for studentsunions (at A6(2)(c)).