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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. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Doing that at a prestigious Research 1 institution was too important to pass up. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. There will be a table talk with a faculty member who will discuss research. there were protests on campus.

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Temple yanks health care, tuition benefits from strikers

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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IU Bloomington provost goes beyond retention for success

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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. At Georgia] I was largely in charge of … enrollment management and student success. program, he took on more work in graduate-level education.

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Where should freedom of speech responsibilities in higher education lie?

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by GR Evans Under the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Act higher education providers and studentsunions 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 studentsunions (at A6(2)(c)).

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Unions organizing in states that lack collective bargaining

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Right-to-work laws mean that even when a union earns official recognition and negotiates a contract with the employer, the workers the union is supposed to represent still don’t have to pay dues supporting it. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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