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Journal places warning on flawed abuse-homosexuality study

Inside Higher Ed

Warren Throckmorton, a Grove City College psychology professor, told Zucker about the discrepancy back in 2009, according to emails Throckmorton provided Inside Higher Ed. Throckmorton also blogged about the discrepancies back in 2009. Grove City, in Pennsylvania, is a Christian liberal arts college.

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Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality?

Inside Higher Ed

In 2009, Newsweek featured him in a cover story that explored the idea of a three-year bachelor’s degree. Though the proposal had excitement in 2009 that faded away, Zemsky remains undeterred. For Zemsky, the idea has been in motion for well over a decade. ” Pasquerella said.

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The State of Public Trust in Higher Education: Insights from Gallup-Lumina Foundation: Changing Higher Ed® podcast 255 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Courtney Brown

The Change Leader, Inc.

Drumm McNaughton: Well, you’re part of that 1% that many folks say has been able to leverage a liberal arts background. Right, because most people with a liberal arts background do very well long term, so. I think you’ve done it very well. I’m being facetious, but… Courtney Brown: Right.

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Higher Education Reading List

Susquehanna President's Blog

Liberal Arts Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education , edited by J. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. Roth, Michael: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. Zakaria, Fareed: In Defense of a Liberal Education. Washington, DC: NACUBO, 2009.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

” The college said its plan also “calls for Allegheny to have a student-to-faculty ratio that is aligned with other national liberal arts colleges. Chinese majors awarded increased from 514 across 60 institutions in 2009 to 706 across 75 institutions in 2013, and then declined again in 2016, to 648 across 84 institutions.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

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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