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Our LGBTQ students’ lives and well-being are at risk—here are 5 things campus leaders can do to help

EAB

Content warning: this blog contains discussions of gun violence and hate speech. The two of us shared our thoughts with a reporter about how college campuses have been impacted by anti-LGBTQ speech and legislative actions over the past several years. The statistics are a harrowing call to action.

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Does the government have any legal basis for asserting a duty of care to students in higher education under Common Law?

HEPI

T his HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Robert Abrahart, Lead Campaigner at ForThe100, and Balwant Kaur, Independent Suicide Prevention Researcher. This however is Common Law, which is law created by judges and recorded in their written opinions.

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University Leaders Have a Responsibility to Speak Out

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education The role of college president is a difficult one at the best of times. But with an increasingly volatile political landscape in the U.S., now is an especially hard time to please all constituencies.

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Does it feel better to work in a school or a university?

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by James Fuller, who supports the senior team at Lancaster University having previously worked in secondary school leadership. In this blog, he considers some similarities and differences between the school and higher education sectors and considers himself very lucky to be in HE!

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Americans’ trust in higher ed has reached a new low. Here’s how to navigate the ongoing confidence crisis.

EAB

Blogs Americans’ trust in higher ed has reached a new low. While expert opinions differ on how strongly to attribute low public confidence to the cost of education, higher ed leaders should see these results as a wake-up call and take action to stop this confidence crisis.

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Elevating from Social Media Monitoring to Social Listening

Campus Sonar

It’s like checking email or responding when someone calls your name. In this way, it gives you an authentic and unfiltered view into your audience’s questions, opinions, celebrations, anxieties, and fears. This is important work and a necessity for responsive customer service.

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An uncomfortable classroom: the power of politics in pedagogy

LSE Higher Education Blog

In her winning entry to the LSE Higher Education Blog’s Essays in Education Blog Challenge , Teresa Piacentini argues that the classroom is always political and, despite student calls for ‘less bias’, should never be free of discomfort. All of this is political. This destruction is transformative and liberatory!

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