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The Guardian view on universities: arts cuts are the tip of an iceberg | Editorial

The Guardian - Higher Education

Ministers are ultimately responsible for weakening the arts and humanities. They are taking the country backwards The announcement that the University of East Anglia is to cut 31 arts and humanities posts – out of a total of 36 academic job cuts – has rightly prompted anger as well as dismay. Continue reading.

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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. Ann Robinson, Montana State University appeared first on PeopleAdmin.

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

HEPI

Today, Cardiff Metropolitan University made a landmark announcement in support of migrants’ rights by approving a policy to never invest in companies complicit in violence against people migrating and seeking sanctuary. This is the first time a UK university has aligned investment policy with immigration justice.

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

SRHE

Encourage or lead a course/subject group activity where colleagues start by looking at how they use their own spaces, then visit other parts of their university. For example, universities create specific spaces with the aim of helping to build a sense of community but then impose rules on how those spaces can be used.

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

The PIE News

Universities in the UK, Australia and Canada have announced staff layoffs and course suspensions as government policies limiting international student numbers cause increasing financial strain. As of April 30, 55 institutions have confirmed cuts, with several thousand academic and administrative posts forecast to be lost in the coming months.

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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. ” An official of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression wrote a letter to university president Sylvia M.

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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.