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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This leaves minority students to have to create “counter-spaces of community,” for themselves, on their own. Hollingsworth’s dissertation directly examines this ongoing phenomenon, focusing particularly on the experiences of Black women students leading Black student union chapters at PWIs, says the Ph.D.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. He entered Morehouse intent on majoring in biology and going on to medical school. UF’s African American studies program was started in 1969. there were protests on campus.

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Why Worry?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Unionization With Princeton and Stanford next on the graduate student unionization front, it’s clear that universities have become the hotbed of labor organizing. Within the Cal State system, the share of faculty who are in tenured or tenure track positions fell from 66.6 percent in 2004 to 54.4 percent in 2021.

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TM2 Revival Brings Fresh Approach to HBCU Executive Searches

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite earning a biochemistry degree at Lamar University with parental expectations of medical school, Doman found his true calling in student affairs. Working in the student union as an undergraduate led to leadership roles, eventually guiding him toward a career in higher education administration.

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Collegiate Commentary: Five communities created by staff-student projects

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Stemmed and unintended benefits to partnership working: Unsurprisingly, many of these projects spoke about several gains, but most notably these related to students’ employability skills. As a result, the benefits of partnership can be multifaceted and all-encompassing ( Alison, 2017 ).

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2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 187 with Host Deborah Maue and Guest Dr. Drumm McNaughton

The Change Leader, Inc.

And even in Ohio, just recently with their bringing in a new president, that whole process, I actually had a phone call from a student. The student union wanted to hire me to fix this for them. Hospitals deal with life and death, but you’ve got a lot of university systems who also have medical centers. Right, right.