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Holistic campus design strategies to combat loneliness 

University Business

Buildings are strategically oriented to maximize views, natural ventilation, and human comfort, with residential tower facades serrated to increase airflow. This approach recognizes that multiple research studies show students who experience a strong sense of belonging have significantly lower rates of depression and anxiety. .

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How Severance Mirrors U.S. Higher Education Administration: The Compartmentalization and Bureaucracy of Modern Academia

Higher Education Inquirer

This division can lead to limited communication and a lack of understanding between those shaping the institutions direction and those most impacted by decisions. Dehumanizing Bureaucracy Severance also critiques how systems of power, driven by bureaucracy, strip employees of their humanity.

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The divestment problem

University Business

When the Undergraduate Council of Students at Brown University in 2019 conducted a referendum asking whether their institution should “divest all stocks, funds, endowment and other monetary instruments from companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine,” Brown President Christina Paxson chose not to engage.

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