Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% Yet, these climbs did not outweigh continuing transfer student declines.

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Located just 60 miles from Talladega, the private liberal arts school shuttered its doors in May. Northland College, has been operating with a budget deficit since 2016 and can no longer rely on its endowment if it wishes to stay open, Wisconsin Public Radio reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). Public community colleges have ties to local and regional economies, faculty possessing advanced degrees in the liberal arts and sciences, and direct experience in industry.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. After assuming the presidency in 2016, one of Whitaker’s most notable actions was reaffirming the university’s accreditation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Participants came from a wide variety of institutional types, including doctoral universities, regional schools, liberal arts colleges, community colleges, and minority-serving institutions. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4% drop in real wages, the third straight sharp decline, for a cumulative loss of 7.5%

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Despite high profile stories about the closing of small liberal arts colleges, such as California’s Mills College and Vermont’s Green Mountain College, college closures have actually declined in the past five years. But the numbers may spike again as declining U.S. First, the numbers. First, the numbers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. The women’s and gender studies minor at North Carolina Central University was launched in the fall of 2016. The majority of students pursuing the WGS minor at Morgan State are not pursuing majors in the College of Liberal Arts, which is home to the program.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That percentage dropped from 73% in 2016, though China is still the most popular country from which colleges recruit international students.”. Source: Higher Ed Dive. Higher Ed IT Leaders Identify Top 10 Biggest Challenges.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No No one thought it was really going to happen,” she said. “I On Wednesday morning, the board of trustees voted to close the college.

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

A separate report EAB conducted between 2016 and 2020 found that the rate of college-going high school graduates declined by 10%. This may explain why enrollment in liberal arts colleges has sharply declined over the same period as general enrollment in higher ed has.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” 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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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 next spring, he was unanimously re-elected as chair of economics. No reason was given.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I see a piece from 2016 predicated on the decline of the number of humanities faculty in which I suggested that the humanities will not be killed as long as humans remain, but the academy may cease to become a good home for them.

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IHEP

JANUARY 7, 2022

Given that most colleges and universities focus their degree reclamation initiatives on liberal arts or general studies associate’s degrees, this study explored the potential of expanding those efforts to include technical and applied associate’s degrees, which can yield more immediate employment gains after graduation. References.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. Digging Into the Data Using federal education data, Lightcast researchers found growth at 2,274 out of 8,007 new programs studied from 2016–17 through 2021, for a success rate of 28.4

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“This is sort of what every department, and I would say every college of liberal arts and humanities and social sciences—this is what we talk about in our administrative meetings,” said Jonathan Greenberg, English department chair at Montclair State University. (The

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. There, she served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, whose 2000-student population is double the size of Presbyterian’s, according to the college’s website.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the wave of closures of small liberal arts colleges across the United States continues, merging with a larger institution is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative. Some in higher education believe that a merged institution will preserve much of what is good of the smaller institution, while closure is merely oblivion.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Campuses report , published every five years by the American Council on Education , indicates that student mobility – which has been a top priority for internationalisation since 2016 – will continue to be a key priority beyond the pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Seroczynski said becoming a Second Chance Pell site in 2016 allowed the program to create a second full-time position to support more student services such as a writing center. “If you can imagine it happening on the main campus, we’re trying to recreate it on the inside,” Seroczynski said.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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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. Specific ‘Masters’ loans were introduced in 2016-17.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

2016, 70%, 20 22, 62%. 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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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. 2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). For example, at our institution, faculty are not required to engage in research, so there are fewer opportunities for students. References.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Buser’s study , published in Sex Roles , involved some 1,190 undergraduates (696 men and 494 women) enrolled in introductory-level economics courses taught by seven different faculty members—three men and four women—at five institutions: one state university, one large regional university and three private liberal arts colleges.

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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. 2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). For example, at our institution, faculty are not required to engage in research, so there are fewer opportunities for students. References.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Terenzini’s How College Affects Students (originally published in 1991 and revised in 2005 and updated in 2016 by Matthew J. Their curriculum is truly balanced and includes training in academic success skills and a rich liberal arts core. Pascarella and Patrick T. Mayhew, Alyssa N. Rockenbach, Nicholas A.

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Echo Delta

JULY 30, 2024

I was recently looking at the website for a very traditional liberal arts college, the liberal artsy of the most liberal arts colleges, and they were showing profiles of students. What you have is that young women are becoming more liberal. Grant De Roo: Exactly. And yes, there was what you might suspect.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

Thanks to recommended reading assignments from his monthly University Leadership Council, President Milliron has a lot of them: "Recently we've been reading Extended Mind by Annie Paul, which is amazing; Range by David Epstein, which is phenomenal if you're a champion of liberal arts.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The University of Puget Sound, a private liberal arts school in Tacoma, Washington, has been nationally recognized as a campus with among the highest rate of voter turnout in the nation.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. It seems as if the inventions of the internet, mobile phones, social media, let alone ChatGPT have yet to make substantial change in these classrooms. References [i] Postman, N. Amusing ourselves to death. ii] O’Neil, C. New York: Crown Publishers.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. It seems as if the inventions of the internet, mobile phones, social media, let alone ChatGPT have yet to make substantial change in these classrooms. References [i] Postman, N. Amusing ourselves to death. ii] O’Neil, C. New York: Crown Publishers.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Achieve, Lead, Vote I have written a number of times about the roles many of our Founding Fathers played in establishing and cultivating higher-education institutions, especially liberal-arts colleges. The turnout of the voting-age population in 2016 was 54.8%, and in 2020 it was 62%.

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