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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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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. Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE.

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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.

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Colleges Are Outsourcing Their Teaching Mission to For-Profit Companies. Is That A Good Thing? (Richard Fossey*)

Higher Education Inquirer

University employees staffed the campus bookstore, ran the student union, and performed janitorial services. National fast-food chains operate stores in countless student unions. Perhaps the faculty don't have the skills necessary to recruit students, manage enrollment, or design academic programs for an online format.

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Maximising postgraduate experience with student-led initiatives

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In my programme, MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems , the student leadership consists of two class representatives and a diverse ten-member class committee of students from different countries. The class representative works closely with the Programme Director, Engineering School, Student Union and other organisms across the university.

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Doing the dirty work of academia? Ancillary staff in higher education

SRHE

Finally, we conducted 20 interviews with ancillary staff, recruited through a diversity of routes and with a diversity of backgrounds and roles. It also involved an online survey of UK HE institutions followed by Freedom of Information (FoI) requests.

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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.