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Psalms of Brick and Mortar
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Livingston, Donovan Albert – Comparative Education Review, 2023
As colleges and universities--particularly predominantly White institutions (PWIs)--look to offer healing and reconciliation for racialized transgressions, it is important that these institutions also honor the sacrifices of those brave students who not only broke barriers but also held open the door of opportunity through which others may walk.…
Descriptors: Predominantly White Institutions, Universities, College Students, African American Students
Privacy Territories in Student University Housing Design: Introduction of the Hierarchy of Isolation and Privacy in Architecture Tool (HIPAT)
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McCartney, Shelagh; Rosenvasser, Ximena – SAGE Open, 2022
Students' privacy expectations in university housing have increased, a change that has been reflected in universities shifting from traditional units to increasing numbers of apartments and suites. This study examines privacy and territories in student university housing architecture, using architectural plans of 76 residences, relating the…
Descriptors: Universities, College Students, College Housing, Dormitories
A Morphogenesis Account of Student Leaders' Development of Their Agency in Their Undergraduate Residences at Stellenbosch University
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Davids, Delecia; Fataar, Aslam – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2022
This article offers an account of the development of student leaders' agency within the institutional culture of their residences at Stellenbosch University (SU). Residences at formerly white universities such as SU are struggling to align their welcoming practices and cultures to the requirements for immersion of the diverse students who now live…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Leadership, Leadership Training
Characterization of Solid Wastes as a Tool to Implement Waste Management Strategies in a University Campus
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Nolasco, Elaine; Vieira Duraes, Pedro Henrique; Pereira Gonçalves, Júlia; de Oliveira, Maria Cristina; Monteiro de Abreu, Lucijane; Nascimento de Almeida, Alexandre – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Universities are an example of institutions that aggregate people around work/study who consume water, energy and produce waste daily in their activities, generating an impact on the environment. The purpose of this study is to determine the quantity, composition and recycling potential of waste generated at the Faculdade UnB Planaltina…
Descriptors: Universities, Sanitation, Wastes, Hazardous Materials
Global Citizenship Education as a Pedagogy of Dwelling: Re-Tracing (Mis)Steps in Practice during Challenging Times
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Blanco, Gerardo L. – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
Global citizenship education is full of contradictions and tensions. Neither the global nor citizenship are neutral concepts, and both come with long histories of violence, oppression and exclusion. While global citizenship education has often been discussed from a policy- or institution-level perspective, it is necessary to examine closely the…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, International Education
Student Affairs and Services Leadership in Trying Times: Student Social Behaviour Project and Psycho-Social Support Interventions at a Comprehensive University in South Africa
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Chalufu, Sibusiso; Rheeder, Corrie – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2022
The outbreak of COVID-19 and the lockdown measures that were widely implemented in response to the pandemic forced many of the forms of engagement and activities promoted by student affairs and services staff among students at universities to be curtailed or transformed -- at first, so that they entailed no interpersonal contact and later so that…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Universities, COVID-19, Pandemics