Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

Between 2017 and 2023, he served as executive director of the U.N. 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. While serving as governor, Beasley advocated for the removal of the Confederate flag from the State House dome.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. Lana Duke is a Chickasaw citizen and graduated from Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine in May 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Dirks, president and CEO of The New York Academy of Sciences. Getting into college is harder and harder,” said Dirks. Even though there are wonderful colleges and universities across the states and country, they can’t find enough students to enroll, and every year there are headlines about colleges folding or being acquired.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

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

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

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.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While this playful interaction between users may seem like the antithesis of serious learning, Tara Martin (2017) found a way to channel student interest in sharing annotated images toward an educational purpose by creating what she calls a BookSnap. Snapchat is probably the most popular social media app among those under 30.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Regardless of whether students decide on asynchronous, synchronous, or HyFlex courses in the future, podcasting can reinforce important educational objectives through concise and manageable tasks while at the same time accompanying self-paced and varied learning styles (Powell & Robson, 2014).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

These are positive developments from the perspective of groups such as the Association of American Universities and the American Association of Colleges and Universities, which promote high-impact practices that increase student engagement and deep learning. In 2017, Educause identified active learning spaces as the year’s No.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. ” In 2017, King’s College London suggested its research partnership already in place with Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, known as transCampus, could see it create a European campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Gay, currently the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, was hired after a search that began in July to replace Lawrence S. with very little and put themselves through college while raising our family,” Gay said. And it was the City College of New York that made those careers possible.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The definition of a living-learning community is a dedicated number of beds that are contiguous to each other and have additional resources dedicated for the purpose of that community,” explains Kathy Bush-Hobgood, vice president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers. University of Minnesota at St.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017). The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Why are we here?

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Diana was previously Policy Advisor to three Ministers the last time Universities, Science, Research and Innovation were in the same portfolio. Yet, Westminster retains responsibility for science, research and innovation UK-wide. You can follow London Higher and Diana on X (formerly Twitter) via @LondonHigher and @dianajbeech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

At the time, Darling-Hammond was an endowed professor at Columbia University, Teachers College. At the time, Tate was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences and Chair of the Department of Education at Washington University in St. Linda Darling-Hammond, to the post in 1995-1996.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2023

Regardless of whether students decide on asynchronous, synchronous, or HyFlex courses in the future, podcasting can reinforce important educational objectives through concise and manageable tasks while at the same time accompanying self-paced and varied learning styles (Powell & Robson, 2014).

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

For a deeper look into the reasons why college enrollments are declining, see our earlier post, College Enrollment: Cliffs, Shifts, and Lifts. A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them. According to the Tampa Bay Times , St.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

For a deeper look into the reasons why college enrollments are declining, see our earlier post, College Enrollment: Cliffs, Shifts, and Lifts. A surprising selection of colleges and universities are thriving despite the culling of institutions and programs happening around them.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Undergraduate enrollment across all undergraduate sectors is beginning to steady, remedying the sharper declines colleges have experienced before the pandemic, according to data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Liberal arts and sciences, which was the third most enrolled major, saw a sharp 4.8%

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

And by the Monday following this reveal, Clemens—who in 2017 called himself an “outspoken conservative” faculty member and said he was “intrigued to learn of our administration’s interest in housing a conservative center”—was telling concerned faculty members the proposal isn’t what it sounds like.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Creative arts (CA-HE), often deemed less valuable than STEM subjects, are particularly threatened ( Puffett 2022 , Redmond 2020 ), evidenced in the closure of departments, and exacerbating the already tense relationship between the CA-HE and HE ( Elkins 2009 ). Octopuses and Tentacles. Three Hearts and Nine Minds.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

While this playful interaction between users may seem like the antithesis of serious learning, Tara Martin (2017) found a way to channel student interest in sharing annotated images toward an educational purpose by creating what she calls a BookSnap. Snapchat is probably the most popular social media app among those under 30.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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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. They have proliferated in range and subject. The question is whether that affects their ‘value’.

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University Business

MAY 17, 2024

The University Business Podcast : Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa In Pennsylvania, Albright College President Jacquelyn Fetrow has announced her resignation , effective May 31, after leading the small institution since 2017, WFMZ-TV reported. Provost Michael I. Who’s hiring? Elizabeth S. Interim president Susan C.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 23, 2023

Professional development can be defined as structured professional learning that results in changes in teaching practices and improvements (Learning Policy Institute, 2017). The concept of professional development is not the sole issue; the disdain comes from the lack of purpose and the ineffectiveness. Why are we here?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 7, 2023

” Art Pope, a member of the Board of Governors since 2020 and a prolific Republican donor , denied that the compelled speech vote was motivated by politics. Of course it’s political; it's always been political,” said Thorp, now editor in chief of Science. ” N.C. Yes, we are.

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Lucie Wheeler Cleaning, catering and security staff fulfil an important function in maintaining and enhancing the social and material environment of higher education (HE). Yet this group has attracted limited considerations from researchers and policy-makers alike.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

The most complex merger involved Georgia Health Sciences University and Augusta State University, which created one larger and more comprehensive institution than either had been separately. He co-authored a 2017 report for the TIA Institute and a book, Strategic Mergers and Higher Education, published by John Hopkins Press.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. It was an outline of the foundations of our enterprise and my goals for the university.

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Edu Alliance Journal

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This topic has been of interest to me for over 50 years because I am one of those who dropped out of college. The Harsh Facts on College Dropouts. American higher education overall has 39 million people with Some College, No Credential (SCNC) as of July 2020 according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

In just six years, the program has grown from 17 fellows in fall 2017 to 134 in fall 2022, supporting 209 students to date. Studies indicate that a majority of U.S. workers value diversity in the workplace and want their companies to implement inclusive policies. Ninety percent of participating students receive internships or externships.

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