The Student Affairs Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2024

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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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2023

The West Virginia United Students’ Union organized separate rallies on campus. Students were encouraged to wear red in honor of the red bandanas West Virginia coal miners fighting to unionize wore during their march on Blair Mountain , the largest armed uprising in the United States since the Civil War.

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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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

“In the meantime, we remain committed to ensuring a positive, rewarding and successful experience for all our graduate students. Finally, I want to thank our graduate students, union representatives and all members of our community for engaging in a constructive and respectful union election.” Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Faculty Graduate students Unions/unionization Image Source: @Kolslaw41/Twitter Image Caption: A Temple University graduate student workers strike rally. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 10, 2023

“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.” ” “Students will have the entire semester to make that decision,” he added.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

[The union] members would continue to receive free tuition for their programs of study, on average, valued at about $20,000.” ” Ad keywords: administrators faculty studentaffairs teachinglearning Editorial Tags: College administration Graduate education Graduate students Unions/unionization Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

APRIL 27, 2023

Following President Jason Wingard’s resignation last month , the Temple faculty union has now turned its ire towards Provost Gregory Mandel and Board of Trustees Chair Mitchell Morgan. More than 800 union members (81%) cast a vote of no confidence in their ability to lead one of the state’s leading research universities.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In just 16 days, UNC-Chapel Hill sent out a second report of an ‘armed and dangerous person,’ causing thousands of students, faculty and staff to shelter in place on campus. According to UNC-Chapel Hill officials, the alert was issued because of reports that a person brandished a weapon at the student union.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 26, 2023

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. 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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Temple said its records show that more than 80 percent of the graduate student union members weren’t striking as of Thursday—the day after it emailed the demand to pay tuition. ” Activism Pay and Benefits Unions Threats Against Faculty Editorial Tags: Graduate students Foreign Students in U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Students often encounter barriers when completing enrollment or financial aid forms—such as needing a parent’s Social Security number or financial information. In addition to the space and a full-time coordinator, the MRC will increase its number of peer mentors who offer guidance and support to male students.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

[At Georgia] I was largely in charge of … enrollment management and student success. Now I’m provost, so I’m basically overseeing all of those, plus research and faculty development and institutional infrastructure. If it’s not connected to student success, let’s bring it lower on the priority scale.

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Missouri State

AUGUST 21, 2023

Take a moment to get to know the faces of the Office of Student Conduct. The students, staff, and faculty make it a welcoming place, that though large, feels small. Our staff is here to help and educate you. Come stop by and see what the office has to offer! What do you like most about Missouri State: The people!

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 13, 2023

Get closer to students physically If you can’t bring the student to the financial aid office, maybe you should bring the financial aid office closer to the student. “It spreads just through word of mouth, and the students become ambassadors with people in their cohort to help them fix their money as well.”

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AIFS Abroad

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In 2020, Fairfield University and AIFS partnered to develop a school of record relationship that will allow academic credit to be available for both Fairfield and non-Fairfield students. Course syllabi and faculty credentials are reviewed and approved by Fairfield University. Where to Find AIFS Global Education Centers.

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Missouri State

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

in Plaster Student Union. Athletics incidents should be reported to the appropriate head coach, faculty athletics representative, or athletic director as outlined by the Student-Athlete Code of Conduct. Contact the Office of Student Conduct. Those events include: Anti-Hazing Banners, beginning September 20 th.

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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. Perhaps the faculty don't have the skills necessary to recruit students, manage enrollment, or design academic programs for an online format.

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Hope College Network

JANUARY 24, 2016

Students and faculty representing the Office of Multicultural Education as well as Black Student Union, Hope’s Asian Perspective Association, Latino Student Organization and the Theta Gamma Pi Sorority alongside speaker David Paul.

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Their insights into student behaviours and experiences as generalised or generic were above the departmental and faculty limits of many academics which also challenged the traditional and now often dangerous practices and roles of personal tutors. He is an Honorary Teaching Fellow of Coventry University and a contributor to WonkHE.

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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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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The highest levels of work-life balance were found among those in catering role employed by the students’ union (so outsourced but with very different contractual conditions compared with staff outsourced via a private firm, with the former benefiting from a work timetable built around their teaching timetable). She blogs here.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2019

Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton of the University of California Berkeley and Elizabeth Paige-Gold of the University of Toronto also found that being involved in racial/ethnic organizations like a Black Student Union was linked with an increased sense of belonging within the broader university for students of color. About the author.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2024

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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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

In stark contrast to prevailing trends in higher education, colleges and universities have or are boosting their enrollment, retention, and graduation rates by improving their students’ sense of belonging, student support services, student-faculty relationships, and career readiness programs. What’s the benchmarking?

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

MARCH 7, 2023

This continued into college where some key staff and faculty mentors (my very own Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore) led me to Student Affairs. I longed to exercise that learning and academic part of my brain, and secretly worried that perhaps I had missed my calling to become a faculty member. And, I loved learning.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

My advice to all of them revolved around providing the opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to have open conversations where they are not compelled to take sides. We need to take the conversation to the students.

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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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