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Urgent calls to end compulsory unpaid internships as students forced to quit due to cost of living

The Guardian - Higher Education

Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. Ruby Partland, a masters student in social work at RMIT, is required to complete 1,000 hours of unpaid internships to complete her degree – equating to around six months of full-time work.

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A Gift Guide for Higher Ed Leaders Who Have Everything

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

With that in mind, we’ve combed through the “Stuff We Love” section of our monthly newsletter to offer the year’s best gift ideas for our colleagues – or even for ourselves. Our own portable Bose speaker has saved countless UIA events. Upgrade your workspace with a surprisingly affordable custom neon sign.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay. Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The humanities are well represented in the new programs we are developing.”

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Michigan grad workers striking over pay, trans health care

Inside Higher Ed

“We’re striking because our members cannot afford basic necessities,” said Amir Fleischmann, a Ph.D. ” The university said in an email Thursday that “Beyond any legal considerations is an ethical one: If collective bargaining is to retain its value, all parties must honor the terms of the contract they signed.

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5 Reasons that Slack Is Sort Of Growing On Me

Inside Higher Ed

My coming around to Slack is likely a sure sign that Slack will get very uncool. Our New Hybrid Academic Workplace. Humans seemed to be wired to identify with our captors. Slack’s confusing UI elevates our cognitive load, as hunting for information across separate workspaces and channels is inefficient.

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Boston campus leaders worry about Orange Line shutdown

Inside Higher Ed

“We know many of our riders, like teachers and students, do not have the option to stay home during the closure,” Battiston said in an email. “Many of our students, particularly those on our Health Sciences Campus in Boston, rely on the Orange Line to get to and from campus,” Collins said in an email.

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City College of San Francisco struggles to heat classrooms

Inside Higher Ed

“The primary goal of the emergency meeting for me [was] to put the heat on our administration to be responsive to our students and to urgently fix these issues and not treat it as business as usual. As I said several times during the meeting, as long as our students are not getting heat, the heat should be on us.”