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Certificates are the only new growth in undergraduate degrees

University Business

The number of bachelor’s degrees earned fell to the lowest level since 2015-16 while associate degrees slumped to a 10-year low. It is certificate programs, not associate or bachelors degrees, that are drawing students into colleges today. In 2023-24, more than 3.2 These students are also getting younger.

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

February 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke: This profile of Earlham College is the second in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. For the 2023-24 academic year, U.S.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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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. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.”

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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The flag was finally removed from the State House grounds in 2015 after nine people were killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. He will teach and give guest lectures at the law school, the Honors College, and the College of Arts and Sciences. Rice School of Law.

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A college widens faculty involvement in search for a president

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In the perpetual tug-of-war between openness and confidentiality in searches for new college and university presidents, secrecy has been winning in a rout. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint.

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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.