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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I thought about how quiet I’d been as an undergrad, and I felt there was something I needed to do and should do at MIT to get more African American and minority students in and to make it more hospitable.” Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union. During her 23 years at the helm, more than $1.25

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Building Community through Faculty, Staff, and Student Mixers

The Student Affairs Blog

The Faculty, Staff & Student Mixers, hosted by The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) are designed to bring together members of VCU’s diverse communities in a welcoming and celebratory environment.

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Offering academic flexibility after a campus shooting

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“We also talked with other schools who had been through similar tragedies, and they experienced something similar to what we did—that is that many students were feeling strongly that they wanted to come back.” She usually goes there every night to get food, but she had eaten elsewhere that evening.

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Colleges Are Outsourcing Their Teaching Mission to For-Profit Companies. Is That A Good Thing? (Richard Fossey*)

Higher Education Inquirer

University employees staffed the campus bookstore, ran the student union, and performed janitorial services. National fast-food chains operate stores in countless student unions. Over time, however, universities began outsourcing almost all of their auxiliary services. Why don't the professors do those things?

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While Some Institutions Choose Police Response, Others Choose to Listen

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Student, faculty, and public protestors come together at Washington Square Park near New York University on April 23, the day after NYU leaders directed the NYPD to arrest over 130 protestors. Injured students have posted selfies on their social media of wounds inflicted by rubber bullets.

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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