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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joshua Reda There are also students who don’t have stable or consistent homes who want a place to reside while pursuing their education. Post-pandemic, we have more individual students coming to us than actual school contracts.” During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships.

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How to write more supportive, inclusive syllabi (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

This is often used as an opportunity to present the syllabus as a “contract” and to make course policies and penalties clear to students. But what if the syllabus were seen as a critical tool for student engagement and success and used as an opportunity to set the tone for a positive learning environment?

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Looking back at the UC graduate worker strike (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The significant improvement in wages and benefits for teaching assistants, graduate student researchers and postdoctoral scholars are milestone changes, marking an important victory for organized labor. New contracts take time to implement. The contract is a landmark, but the celebrations are muted all around.

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Doctoral Borderlands: an exploration of doctoral education and its possible futures

SRHE

Are conceptions of linear journeys, or pathways from student to academic, from novice to expert, still fit for purpose? This desire for ‘belonging’ in the academy has seen them take up casualised contracts with the hope that they would one day land up a permanent contract. Harry Rolf.

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DEI remains a big target as Trump makes more cuts

University Business

19) Over $1 billion worth of contracts with education nonprofits have gone up in flames over the past 10 days, and public institutions may soon need to close DEI-related programming, according to another wave of executive orders from President Donald Trump. The IES is one of the country’s largest funders of education research.

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