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

students have overwhelmingly voted to unionize. 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. Johns Hopkins University Ph.D. Monday and Tuesday’s vote was 2,053 to 67.

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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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University Business

AUGUST 24, 2023

If the results are certified, PhD students who work at Duke as teaching assistants and researchers will form the largest graduate student union at a private university in the South. The final vote count on Tuesday was 1,000 votes for the union to 131 against.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 26, 2023

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. Matthew Thomas, a Duke teaching assistant who co-chairs that union, told Inside Higher Ed that “Duke is declaring war on the grad union movement.”

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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.

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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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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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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. 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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CAPD

DECEMBER 8, 2023

While at MIT, she served on the board for the Black Students’ Union and presented recommendations for making the campus more inclusive. After graduating MIT, McClellan won a Fulbright grant to conduct research in Spain, where she studied applying machine learning to 5G networks.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

” 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. percent in 2004 to 54.4 percent in 2021.

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SRHE

JANUARY 11, 2023

is one of the best essay writers and does the research for you!’. In the competitive, neo-liberal, league-table driven universities of precarity, publish-or-be-redundant monetizing research (add your own epithets here), will AI bots be used to meet increasingly demanding performance targets? Other AI essay forgers are available.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Throughout the pandemic she worked with the Student Union to better understand students’ experiences and needs. She has conducted research as part of a QAA-funded collaborative project on inclusive assessment, which was based on pandemic experiences.

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SRHE

APRIL 18, 2023

Among these, the Sutton Trust, with its blended focus on research, lobbying and activity delivery, and a message focused on access to the most elite professions and universities, has become the most prominent. These include campaigning organisations, grassroots community organisations, parent-teacher associations or students’ unions.

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Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

JUNE 15, 2019

To the contrary — numerous studies show that students of color interact more across race and have more interracial friendships than White students do. Ethnic student organizations also get a look here, where research shows that such organizations actually foster diverse interactions and engagement amongst students.

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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. Don’t forget to be authentic to what you do and don’t be afraid to make any mistakes at all!

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Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Some things changed in my husband’s role and I was missing some of the aspects of the roles I held before I started full-time assessment, so I’m transitioning back to student union work soon. So for the past two and a half years, I've been all in. What advice do you have for me as a new director or someone new to this field?

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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. Study Abroad Table. Campus-Wide Email.

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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.

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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

JANUARY 3, 2023

The significant improvement in wages and benefits for teaching assistants, graduate student researchers and postdoctoral scholars are milestone changes, marking an important victory for organized labor. The faculty says we recognize our graduate students as early-career colleagues. 16, 2022.

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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. But toward the end, I realized that this research and stakeholder engagements uncovered many problems and solutions. I really enjoyed that work.

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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. Thankfully, I learned about SAAL through one of my dissertation research site contacts (shout out to our President Renee! )

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Study and Go Abroad

AUGUST 21, 2023

Some graduate programs may also charge you tuition fees as well, so make sure you do your research! Unlike in other countries, you won’t have to worry about exorbitant tuition fees due to your status as an international student. These small fees will cover public transportation, administrative costs, student union costs, and more.

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SRHE

APRIL 20, 2023

Historically, a ‘no platform’ position was taken up in the 1970s by many students’ unions against the rise of the far right (the National Front and later the British National Party) which had gained some questionable success in marches in the East End of London and some success in local election results into the 1980s.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 1, 2023

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.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 14, 2023

The Service Employees International Union–affiliated Duke Graduate Students Union is currently trying to earn recognition after a failed attempt in 2016–17. Matthew Thomas, a Duke teaching assistant who co-chairs that union, told Inside Higher Ed that “Duke is declaring war on the grad union movement.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Zon’s (2022) piece around students from the Philosophy Society being involved in widening participation work by delivering workshops to P7 and S2 students is a wonderful example of students taking a lead on traditionally-institution delivered work. Dec 9, 2022

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SRHE

JANUARY 14, 2025

The latter could of course relate to generational shifts and students being more digitally adept, but also to the fact that the university campuses have become heavily regulated by timetabling pressures and health and safety rules, making it difficult for students to socialise, let alone organise on campus.

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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.

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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.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Their approach, involving over 1300 articulation agreements, streamlines the transfer process, making it more efficient for students and the institution. They conduct thorough market research before launching new programs, ensuring that their offerings align with current job market demands. We do the research. Right, right.

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