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The Work We Do: Reflecting on CARL’s Competencies for Librarians in Canadian Research Libraries

ACRLog

The vision and mission statements of your library or institution? Direction from your supervisor or administration? CARL lists eight competencies including collaboration, leadership and vision, equity, diversity, and inclusion, curation, and assessment, among others. The CARL Competencies. With your job description?

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New policies guide removal of controversial building names

Inside Higher Ed

” Still other institutions directly address the potential legal repercussions of removing a name. Institutions—most recently, the University of California Hastings College of the Law —have been sued for attempting to change names they had previously promised to maintain in perpetuity.

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University Presidents Called to Action

Higher Education Inquirer

And yet, one of the greatest challenges these university leaders will face lies not only in the resistance of external forces like protestors, activists, and the general public, but also in the powerful trustees and donors who hold significant sway over the institutions direction.

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AAUP on Florida: authoritarian control wilting higher education

University Business

The college has since abolished all diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, axed its top officer and ended its gender studies program. The college’s new institutional direction has ostracized legacy students and catalyzed a mass exodus among faculty members who don’t align with the state’s politics.

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The divestment problem

University Business

Communicating to school stakeholders how an institution directly or indirectly invests in companies aiding Israel’s military is a tall task, thanks to the sheer complexity of their robust investment portfolios and how they’re managed. “They are invested in all these really, really complicated investment strategies.”

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