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Why I gave $25M to a small liberal arts college (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Now, I see this through a new lens as my husband, Richard, and I have made our first big philanthropic investment in higher education: supporting one of our nation’s small liberal arts colleges. Today’s world is made better with the kind of education students get at a small liberal arts college.

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Public health majors grow by more than 1,000 percent

Inside Higher Ed

According to the study, the number of graduates with an undergraduate degree in public health jumped by more than 1,100 percent between 2001 and 2020, outpacing master’s degrees as the most popular public health degree by 2020. Now the degree has many broader applications—some even outside health care.

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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Burgos arrived at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, where he earned tenure as an associate professor in 2007 and rose to full professor in 2012.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. Validation’ can allow it to offer only the degrees of a validating body with which it has a franchising arrangement.

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Questions remain after release of new Pell Grant regulations

Inside Higher Ed

” The Bard Prison Initiative, which is a part of Bard College and has been operating in prisons since 2001, detailed its concerns about the role of corrections, the metrics used for the best-interest determination and the two-year time frame for approval in its public comment on the draft regulations.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

Author, Understanding Academic Freedom (2021); The Future of Academic Freedom (2019); Censorship and Selection: Issues and Answers for Schools (1988, 1993, 2001); Railwaymen and Revolution: Russia, 1905 (1987). And indeed, probably no state where public higher education boards aren’t to some degree politicized.

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HEI Resources 2025

Higher Education Inquirer

A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. Mettler, Suzanne 'Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream. Smart (2001). Going Broke By Degree: Why College Costs Too Much. Bold Type Books.

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