Plan to consolidate support staff ruffles feathers at Lehigh; a college tackles gender harassment and careers; and more.
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The legislation would create a commission to study slavery and the discrimination that followed, and make recommendations for repairing those racial injustices. (PREMIUM)
They are propelling a reckoning with slavery’s legacy on campuses, in cities, at companies. What Hilary Beckles is doing represents the next step. It’s the marshaling of scholarship for a political aim: payback. (PREMIUM)
Combining administrative services is floated as a way for institutions to cut costs while eliminating overlaps in labor. But to some at Lehigh, the plan is “totally unthinkable.” (PREMIUM)
The National Academies have brought together a group of influential institutions to confront sexist behaviors that don't rise to the level of a crime or a policy violation. (PREMIUM)
More than 500,000 students have been displaced in the past five years, many of them working adults who had hoped that college would be their path to the middle class.
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