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Professor's murder on campus raises urgent safety questions

Inside Higher Ed

Image: College and university campuses are highly permeable environments. This dual reality was thrown into stark relief last week when Thomas Meixner, professor and chair of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, was shot dead in his office building, apparently by a former graduate student in the department.

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Getting Through This Together, As We Always Have

The Student Affairs Collective

As a PhD student in History at my university, I feel like student affairs staff are often the ones who are running towards the crisis with life ring in hand, eager to help those in need. They play a vital role in all aspects of the university environment and those roles are heightened in times of crisis and tragedy.

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Incidents on AU campus prompt look into policy

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The reaction was swift when an anonymous student wrote “Black people suck” on a library whiteboard at American University in February. “This incident is particularly harmful to our Black community members during this important celebration of Black History Month.”

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SCOTUS, Affirmative Action, and the Future of University Diversity: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 174 with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Thomas Parham and Dilcie Perez

The Change Leader, Inc.

In 1986, he was appointed to the City of Irvine’s Human Relations Committee. After being elected chair of that committee, he helped draft the city’s first human rights ordinance, which was passed by the city council. It’s really an integrated environment. He also served as chair of UCI’s Martin Luther King Jr.

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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

Some of it reflects the news sources that I read or the Texas or academic environment in which I live. I think it’s fair to say that our offices of the dean of students, student life, and student affairs need to do better. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.