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Nursing Educator Brings Talents and Skills Back to Thriving HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When it comes to nursing and nursing education, Dr. Tiffany D. Morris has seen and done almost everything over her 30-year career. When some might consider slowing down, Morris is steady going. She recently accepted a new position as director of nursing and the Clara Adams Ender Endowed Associate Professor at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, a public historically Black college and university (HBCU) in Greensboro, N.C.

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UM graduate instructors ratify contract, end strike before classes start - Detroit News

Economics and Change in Higher Education

The longest strike by University of Michigan graduate student instructors is over. The strike ended Friday, three days before UM's 2023-24 school year begins on Monday after 97% of the university's Graduate Employees Organization union, which represents 2,300 graduate student instructors and graduate assistants, voted over three days to ratify a new, three-year contract.

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UNC-Chapel Hill Murder Case Exposes Model Minority Myth

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A graduate student shooting his professor is not model minority behavior. But given the proliferation of gun violence in America, maybe it is. Tailei Qi, 34, a graduate student from China attending the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, was charged with first degree murder in the killing of his advisor Zijie Yan, an associate professor in applied physical sciences at the school.

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Sasse’s preliminary strategic plan includes tuition changes, department reductions - Garrett Shanley, the Alligator

Economics and Change in Higher Education

UF President Ben Sasse described an early framework of UF’s new strategic plan in faculty-only presentations across UF’s colleges last week. The presentation was summarized by attendees who spoke anonymously to The Alligator because they feared repercussions from disclosing details of the president's remarks. Sasse discussed adjusting student tuition costs, reducing the total number of academic departments, eliminating "quiet-retired" faculty and restructuring the delivery of education, a profes