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Colleges hire directors to tackle student basic needs

Inside Higher Ed

College administrators nationwide were already starting to tackle the issue in recent years but homed in on it after the pandemic revealed stark economic disparities among students. A month after she graduated in 2015 with a bachelor’s degree in history and global culture, she was hired by her alma mater to do just that.

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Democratic Protests on Campus: Modeling the Better World We Seek (Annelise Orleck)

Higher Education Inquirer

Across the country, student protest has flourished largely unrestrained on college campuses since the disastrous 1970 crackdowns at Kent State in Ohio and Jackson State in Mississippi cost six students their lives. What moved college administrators this spring to make such a sharp change in how they handle peaceful student protest?

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