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Why PeopleAdmin? Ann Robinson, Montana State University

PeopleAdmin

Ann Robinson, Human Resources Systems Administrator at Montana State University , manages the PeopleAdmin platform across four different MSU campuses: Montana State University, MSU Billings, MSU Northern, and Great Falls College. Why PeopleAdmin?

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Cardiff Metropolitan University becomes first UK higher education institution to pledge no investments in border violence

HEPI

According to this research, an estimated £327 million of university investment portfolios was invested in the arms, detention, surveillance, and other related industries involved in human rights abuses against migrants at borders in the UK and Europe.

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Higher ed policies drive layoffs and cuts in the UK, Australia and Canada

The PIE News

“The government is intent on attacking migrants and harming universities, but it is scandalous that university managers are willing to destroy the livelihoods of their staff based on mere projections of future international recruitment levels,” University and College Union general secretary Jo Grady told The PIE.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

However, I would caution against an assumption that because universities managed to stay operational while fully remote, it is something to pursue post-pandemic. Brett’s work prioritises Activity Theory conceptions of human practice, and interventionist methodologies.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

” These contrasting but equally dim views of how American University officials handle such incidents, whether racial, religious or political in nature, have sometimes been deeply polarizing on the Washington, D.C., A disturbing video of her being forcibly removed from the university-managed apartment spread on social media.

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Memo to Universities UK: don’t let this crisis go to waste

SRHE

She had taken to telephoning individual vice-chancellors to question some aspect of university management or student behaviour, while enthusiastically pursuing the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill, which at the time of writing is at the committee stage in the House of Lords, procedurally close to its establishment in statute – perhaps.

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The Return of Bad Arguments for the Humanities

HESA

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”). “Is