Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

I did not mean to imply that it is a fanciful dream that will never have an impact on higher education, but I have reservations. A student group, registered with your Student Union, organises a virtual event, hosted on a third-party application ( ZOOM for example) using a license owned by the controversial speaker themselves.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

"It is hurtful and absolutely repulsive though not uncommon to hear a white student use such hateful language and racial slurs that are disrespectful and degrading to our community," UW-Madison’s Black Student Union said in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

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. Disparate voices, opinions, and teachings blended in one campus environment designed to help students learn, think independently, and grow.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 21, 2024

Chair of union for Indian students and alumni says visa scheme is vital for attracting high-paying international students to UK Indian students and alumni in the UK have urged the British prime minister to retain graduate visas, rejecting claims they are little more than “Deliveroo visas” that allow overseas students access to low-paid jobs in the (..)

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Lucie Wheeler is a Research Assistant in education. She blogs here.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

Speaking to students and staff on Tuesday evening, Maskell said it had become “sadly fashionable” to assume students taking out loans to pay for university was a “natural order of things”, rather than a policy decision.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Grad student labor organizing has spiked in recent years , according to William A. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions. Herbert cites the cost of graduate student labor to be a leading catalyst to this trend.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 23, 2024

Dora is the President and Ruth is the Vice President Community at Edinburgh University Students’ Association. This post belongs to the Hot Topic theme: Critical insights into contemporary issues in Higher Education. “I You will see that it’s not really living.” – From a recent report by the Russell Group Students’ Unions.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2023

A quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, a new Russell Group Students’ Unions study reveals One in five students at Russell Group universities are considering dropping out because of the cost of living crisis, and a quarter are regularly going without food and other essentials, the Observer can reveal.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 23, 2024

Universities fear an autumn election will not leave undergraduates enough time to register Hundreds of thousands of students could be left unable to vote if the government calls an October general election, because there may not be enough time to register them, universities and student unions have warned.

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University Business

APRIL 8, 2024

Led by many first-generation college students and those receiving financial aid in the state with the fewest college graduates, members say they want to usher in a new era of student involvement in university political life. The movement is part of a wave of student organizing at U.S. Read more from ABC News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. He says he greatly appreciates the resources and the exposure for faculty and student research, but he is still adjusting to not having as much personal contact with students. “I

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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. Herbert, executive director of the National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions.

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EAB

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Since hearing about the Colorado Springs shooting, I’ve been reflecting on my own lived experience as I consider what higher education leaders might do differently to support LGBTQ students while combating the vitriol and widening endorsement of exclusion. -->. The statistics are a harrowing call to action.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Image: Raul Shrivastav’s career in higher education was an accident—kind of. program, he took on more work in graduate-level education. Shrivastav spoke with Inside Higher Ed about the long-term goals of higher education, a holistic approach toward student success and the markers of a successful student.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Creating equitable community: QCC has a poor retention rate for its male students and specifically Black male students, Mangino says. Across higher education, female students outnumber their male counterparts 58 percent to 41 percent, according to 2022 data from the National Center for Educational Statistics.

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University Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In the 1970s, Congress committed to funding a higher education system controlled by Indigenous communities. These tribal colleges and universities were intended to serve students who’d been disadvantaged by the nation’s history of violence and racism toward Native Americans, including efforts to eradicate their languages and cultures.

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2023

The West Virginia United Students’ Union organized separate rallies on campus. They also called for increased spending by the state in higher education, among other things.

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Ray Schroeder

AUGUST 29, 2023

Separate midday rallies were organized by the West Virginia United Students' Union, which encouraged protesters to wear red. They're also calling for increased spending by the state in higher education, among other things.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The organisation wants student unions, in particular, to take a “zero tolerance” approach to any signs of support for Hamas, which was responsible for the attacks in southern Israel on 7 October that killed more than 1,400 people, mostly Israeli civilians, and for capturing 200 hostages.

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The Guardian Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2023

Malik describes the fact that the Oxford student union was forced to retract a public demand that “gender critical” feminist Kathleen Stock should be no-platformed as a “blatant denial of free speech”. But he is wrong to invoke freedom of speech to defend attempts to silence certain views.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

What’s the need: During finals week each semester, the University of Central Florida receives higher levels of mental health calls to its police department, a consequence of increased stress before exams. Using animals as stress relief is a common practice both inside higher education and out.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Only 27 percent of the Class of 2022 (then graduating seniors) had never interacted with their financial aid office, compared to 50 percent of the Class of 2025, then first-year students. Instead, he teaches students how to manage money thoughtfully and carefully. Share here. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Student-staff partnership is now a timeless concept and integral practice within Higher Education (HE) ( Bovill, 2019 ). Some recent practice related to student-staff partnership is looking at our Student Academic Representatives (StARs) scheme , which is administrated by Winchester Student Union.

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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. Higher Education Inquirer estimates that AP collects about half the revenue from the courses and programs they manage.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The benefit of the SRHE and its Blog has been in providing a sense of community for those who have to and do think about the purpose, the benefits and the travails of higher education. My interest in the student experience has been accompanied by an enormous increase in research in this area. by Phil Pilkington.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2019

Park, an associate professor at the University of Maryland College Park, puts a broader conversation on the public discourse about race and diversity on higher education campuses in this book, and challenges pervasive myths on how race works in higher education. Harvard Education Press, October 2018.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Coronavirus pandemic has refocused attention on community building in Higher Education, for student and staff wellbeing and for student learning. This echoes the work of Sam Fawkner, Emily Birtles, and Giulia Pinton at the Moray House School of Education and Sport in building inclusive communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Realigning TM 2 to enhance the leadership initiatives for our member schools at the executive level is essential to the future of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), historically Black community colleges (HBCCs) and predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) and the students they serve, says Dr. Harry L.

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SRHE

APRIL 18, 2023

These include campaigning organisations, grassroots community organisations, parent-teacher associations or students’ unions. Collaboration with charitable and/or community organisations around widening access is not new for HEPs. Nor is it a new way of delivering on widening participation aims.

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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. Davis III, an assistant professor in the Center for the Study of Higher Education and Postsecondary Education at U-M. Davis has been in U-M’s encampment several times, even offering teach-ins to the students there.

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SRHE

APRIL 20, 2023

by Phil Pilkington In March 2023 Nick Hillman, Director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), wrote a review of Freedom of Speech in Universities: Islam, Charities and Counter-terrorism by Alison Scott-Baumann and Simon Perfect (both SOAS), covering freedom of speech, populism (of the left and right), ‘no platforming’, and students.

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SRHE

MARCH 14, 2023

by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and students’ unions will be required to publish Codes of Practice on freedom of speech. He continues to call for the student activists to be punished by the University.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 20, 2024

November 2024) VOA's Student Union is an online community for college and university students in the U.S., including international students. But as Charles Trepany reports in USA Today , the Food and Drug Administration has warned that ingredients in the supplements could be potentially dangerous.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. Campuses as America’s next union battleground. Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Grave threats to tenure. Former U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

The fact of the strike exposes fissures in the current structure of higher education. The graduate student workers’ steadfastness, the university’s intransigence and the undergraduates’ frustrations about missing out on instruction and services they paid for reveal the severity of the cracks. 16, 2022.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Letter claims student union trying to force debating society to disinvite former university professor over transgender views A group of Oxford academics claim “coercion and financial threats” are being used to force the Oxford Union debating club to cancel an appearance by Kathleen Stock.

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