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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It really wasn’t attainable, being an out-of-state student [and] living far away.” The research she’s been doing at Morgan State has to do with her time at her alma mater, where she had gone the extra mile to make the school more welcoming for her and other Black and Brown students. That’s a lot of labor to ask of students, unpaid.”

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Rutgers University Unions Go on Strike After Year of Failed Contract Negotiations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Members of Rutgers AAUP-AFT , Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union , and AAUP-BHSNJ picketed on the New Jersey school’s three main campuses in New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden, demanding improvements such as salary increases, improved job security for adjunct faculty, and funding for graduate students, union representatives said.

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Helping People Be Their Best

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It not only revitalizes the campus but also brings new fields of study to the students and faculty. She also hired an assistant dean for diversity, who has started Black and Latinx student union groups. Now is the right time, she says, to step back and hand the reins to the next leader.

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Labour to revive controversial university freedom of speech legislation

The Guardian Higher Education

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, paused implementation of the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act shortly after last years general election, citing concerns that the law passed by the Conservative government potentially protected the use of hate speech while exposing universities and student unions to bureaucratic and legal costs.

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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Susan D.

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U of Alabama Requires Black and LGBTQ+ Groups to Relocate From Student Center

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The University of Alabama is requiring the Black Student Union, a minority advocacy group, to close its current office in the flagship’s student center, according to a BSU Instagram post.

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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. I’ve had that kind of extraordinary set of opportunities.

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