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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 6, 2023

Syracuse Graduate Employees United, affiliated with the Service Employees International Union, said in a news release that the vote was 728 to 36, with 90 contested ballots. The union will represent graduate assistants, research assistants and teaching assistants paid via stipends, said Amanda Beavin, a graduate assistant.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The union is called the Teachers and Researchers United–United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers. “Approximately 3,200 student workers across JHU’s 65 Ph.D. The union says it’s still awaiting National Labor Relations Board official certification. That release says the university’s Ph.D.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

Duke University will legally challenge its graduate student workers’ latest effort to unionize. Duke will seek to present evidence demonstrating that its graduate students in their academic programs are not employees, and that the NLRB’s 2016 reasoning was incorrect.” Hide by line?:

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Bethany Kosmicki, a member of the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association’s negotiating team, said in a news release that “Temple’s administration has repeatedly ignored our demands, refusing us fair pay, affordable dependent health care and increased parental leave.” Hide by line?:

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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. The teaching and research assistants’ walkout began Jan. They’re under no obligation to do this.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

As a trained audiologist and speech pathologist, Shrivastav pictured himself in a clinical career, but after falling in love with research and teaching in his Ph.D. Q: How does managing student success as a provost differ from your focus on it in your prior role? program, he took on more work in graduate-level education.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

” “UPWA and its predecessor unions played important roles in advancing collective bargaining in education and other fields in the 1940s,” he wrote. “And we do so without waiting for the legal framework to catch up with the idea that workers need unions in this country,” she said.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike. A 2022 SRHE research award enabled us to conduct what is, to our knowledge, the first UK-wide study of HE-based ‘ancillary staff’ (a term we use to refer to cleaning, security and catering staff while acknowledging that this category is broader).

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SRHE

OCTOBER 6, 2022

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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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is a useful way of thinking about student-staff partnerships – such a way of working can never be static. In the context of an ever-evolving HE landscape, it is important for these partnerships to remain agile and flexible to the changing needs of students, staff and institutional priorities.

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SRHE

JANUARY 11, 2023

Will this be the next stage in the battle of cheating by students? Will it lead to an arms race of countering the AI programmes to foil the students cheating? is one of the best essay writers and does the research for you!’. Mike Sharples on the LSE Blog tried it out for a student assignment on learning styles.

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SRHE

APRIL 18, 2023

The expectation has carried through into more recent guidance issued by the OfS ( OfS, March 2023 a), which names the third sector as potential collaborators in supporting school attainment and student outcomes.

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Study and Go Abroad

AUGUST 21, 2023

As of 2014, the German government got rid of tuition fees for all students (yes, including international students!) Some graduate programs may also charge you tuition fees as well, so make sure you do your research! These small fees will cover public transportation, administrative costs, student union costs, and more.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

At my institution, the University of Greenwich, social isolation was cited by a significant number of students as the most challenging aspect of blended learning during the pandemic. In her role at Greenwich, she has co-developed the institution’s Student Success sub-strategy and is co-leading its implementation.

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Hardly anyone started out as student affairs assessment, but just ended up, for a variety of reasons, being really into it. So I like the idea of still being in student affairs, but getting to create a whole new initiative. How did you get here? I've always just kind of had an interest in it but didn't really have any formal training.

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Hope College Network

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As a high school student, I always volunteered within a lot of different school projects and tried to explore what I really wanted to do and focus on that one passion of mine with the hope that I can pursue such a career in college. Arrival at Grand Rapids Airport to embark on my Hope College experience. Start as Early as You Can.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2019

Many people put forth questions such as why some groups “stick together” or stay in their comfort zones, or believe that affirmative action really just helps rich minorities, while lower-income students of color get left behind. Park: One misconception is that diversity is pointless because students of color just self-segregate.

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Study Aborad Association

MAY 9, 2019

Studying abroad has been shown to give students invaluable learning opportunities that aren’t available in a traditional classroom setting. The study also showed that student learning outcomes were unique compared to the classroom. Promoting early provides students the opportunity to save for their trip abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Working in the student union as an undergraduate led to leadership roles, eventually guiding him toward a career in higher education administration. This intimate knowledge comes from years of direct experience and research. The revival of TM 2 reflects TMCFs broader commitment to strengthening HBCU leadership pipelines.

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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. The Bill sets out the requirements separately for higher education providers (at A2 (2)(c)) and for students’ unions (at A6(2)(c)).

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

Campuses struggling with a student mental health crisis. ” Although the AAUP is highly concerned about post-tenure review programs that could lead to faculty members’ termination, it is even more concerned about the replacement of tenured with contingent positions, said the organization’s senior researcher.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 3, 2023

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. Many who expressed sympathy for the graduate students’ cause also clearly articulated their own sense of loss.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2023

Drumm McNaughton explores how higher ed leaders can follow these actionable steps with CEO Elliot Felix of Brightspot Strategy, a consultancy focusing on attracting and retaining students. Elliot shares these impressive findings based on his experiences with the 110 schools he’s partnered with over the last 12 years.

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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. There were people who understood Student Affairs and loved students, but who were genuinely excited by data and research.

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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. We need to foreground religious and spiritual beliefs. Otherwise, we will continue to miss the mark.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

McNaughton highlighted a significant issue: an oversupply of hybrid and online programs relative to the number of students. This imbalance created a complex scenario where the supply of online and hybrid courses exceeded student demand, posing sustainability concerns for these programs. Grade given by Deb Maue: A.

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SRHE

JANUARY 14, 2025

When we think about student politics, it is inevitable that the images of student protest and rebellion come to mind. In cases where students do not meet these expectations of political activity, they are often derogatively called snowflakes: a fragile generation of apolitical students.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 11, 2023

Image: Graduate student instructors and researchers at Yale University voted to unionize, 1,860 to 179, they announced this week. Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. Some 3,214 workers total were eligible to vote.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

In his research, Carleton College economics professor Nathan Grawe argues that the financial crisis of 2008 will lead to a major tsunami for higher education in 2026. He points to a birth dearth that coincided with the economic meltdown which will result in a 15-percent decrease in traditional college-age students in 2026.

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