University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The pipeline of traditional-age students will tighten further midway through this decade because of the drop in births during the Great Recession of 2008, forcing college leaders to compete more aggressively for fewer students. “Other parts of the country will be hit.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” Leffingwell is slated to teach at New York City’s New School in the spring—an institution comprised of the Parsons School of Design, a liberal arts college, a performing arts college, the Mannes conservatory and several graduate schools. The institution has a storied history.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

programs took a nosedive after the 2008 recession, and while the numbers have gone up and down since then, law school enrollments today aren’t nearly what they were. It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. Interest in J.D. Vermont Law School is no different.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

According to the original lawsuit, Stern became something of a thorn in Auburn’s side in 2008, when he worked with a local reporter on a story alleging that Auburn was accepting money from the Charles Koch Foundation in ways that undermined the economics department’s academic integrity.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 11, 2022

What is the protocol for guiding that student from a business degree over into a college of liberal arts and landing them safely? If a student is struggling in their course, we need to talk to that student within hours or days, not five or six weeks later. What happens on your campus when a student is changing majors?

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Helix Education

MAY 16, 2024

Alexandria Technical and Community College Alexandria College, a public two-year comprehensive college in Minnesota with just under 4,000 students and offering 48 programs, has been assessing student satisfaction since 2008 on an every-other-year cycle.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The guilds all controlled their membership and awarded their own qualifications.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And those colleges, especially private, small liberal arts colleges, are highly clustered in the Midwest and the Northeast. All of those are critical and the whole, liberal arts education being one that, , that teaches students critical thinking and teamwork and the ability to work with others.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?

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Echo Delta

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

I was at a top 20 national liberal arts college in the very fall and there was not out one question about academics. Jeff Kallay: First time I saw sushi in a dining hall back in 2008. Food, housing, wellness centers. Jarrett Smith: Interesting. Jeff Kallay: It was, get the freshman out of the car. Very first question asked.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

AUGUST 12, 2021

I’ve been with Furman since 2008. And getting them for example, to understand what their role is, especially at a small private liberal arts college, in the mid market, at a price point that is awfully high, that competes with state flagships as their number one competitor. It’s an honor to be with you guys today.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. And these soft skills, among others, are so important for graduates to have in order to be competitive on the job market (Schultz, 2008; Succi & Canovi, 2020). American Chemical Society.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. And these soft skills, among others, are so important for graduates to have in order to be competitive on the job market (Schultz, 2008; Succi & Canovi, 2020). American Chemical Society.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

In addition, the financial rivalry distracts from other worthwhile aims of higher education by encouraging the public to view a postsecondary degree as a monetary investment and, therefore, to undervalue liberal arts disciplines that are thought to lead to less lucrative careers.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

“Students, even if they go to liberal arts colleges, are thinking about future employment more often than I think some institutions would care to admit,” she said. “There has to be a nuanced approach, but we can’t continue to avoid a discussion about student earnings coming out of particular programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Jesse Louis Jackson’s historic presidential runs in 1984 and 1988 and the election of a virtually unknown political figure — Barack Obama — in 2008. It is no coincidence that after leaving Congress, Chisholm joined academia where she taught at Mount Holyoke College — a private women’s liberal arts college in Massachusetts.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. Bold Type Books. Bennett, W. and Wilezol, D. Is College Worth It?: Thomas Nelson. The Great Training Robbery: Education and Jobs."

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

Overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges in the 2017 school year (that is, the school year ending in 2017) was nearly $9 billion below its 2008 level, after adjusting for inflation. At the same time, state support for public institutions has plummeted.

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