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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. Just under 60% of those students obtained a bachelor’s degree, a quarter of them got an associate degree and 16% earned an undergraduate certificate. These students are also getting younger.

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Small College America – Profile Earlham College

Edu Alliance Journal

Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. Dr. Paul Sniegowski, a biologist and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has served as President since August 2024.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A professor who accused Auburn University officials of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on the athletics program intervening in academics prevailed in court last week—in part. While we disagree with the [trial’s] outcome, the university respects the judicial process. I’m going to hear about this.”

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Former Governor Joins Alma Mater's Law School Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of South Carolina has announced that former South Carolina Gov. 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. David Beasley will join the faculty of its Joseph F. Rice School of Law.

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New Jersey university faces scrutiny amid financial emergency

Inside Higher Ed

Image: New Jersey City University is facing scrutiny from the state government following a financial collapse that saw a dramatic reversal of fortune with the institution reportedly going from a surplus of $108 million in 2013 to a deficit of $67 million amid plans to expand NJCU's campus. The Financial Collapse.

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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.

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. Tressie McMillan Cottom wants her work to meet people where they are, and to do so, she uses many platforms and intersects multiple disciplines.