Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. He will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M. Houtman, who will retire in July after a five-year term as president.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs. Since 2017, she’s been at the helm of St. She also earned awards with the Association of American Law Schools and the National Bar Association, to name a few honors. “I She has excellent academic judgment.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

Woo, a former University of Virginia dean, took over in 2017 shortly after alumnae, students, faculty and others successfully fought attempts by the board of trustees to shut the college down. The college is also touting its designation as one of the nation’s “Most Innovative Liberal Arts Colleges” by U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Another study from 2019 found faculty diversity increased very little nationwide from 2013 to 2017, with large research institutions showing the least progress of all. percentage points per year in the period studied. percentage points per year.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Graduate student enrollment, which boomed during the pandemic, decreased for the first time since 2017, declining 1.2 Of the top five majors represented in the report, only business saw increases from last year, while health professions, liberal arts, biological and biomedical sciences, and engineering all continued to drop.

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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 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. percent from the previous year and about 18.4

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Meredith—whose study abroad program has long occupied a 16th-century palazzo in Sansepolcro, Tuscany—first offered this kind of trip to employees in 2017. It offered a second opportunity in 2019. ” Dana F.

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

Holding higher ed in lower regard From 2017 to 2022, freshman enrollment has decreased across three major sectors of higher education: public 4-year (2.9%), public 2-year (22%) and private 4-year (1.8%). 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

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The extra 10,000 students could, on their own, populate a midsize traditional university, or several small liberal arts colleges. ” At Western Governors, traditional-aged student enrollments have more than doubled—from approximately 6,000 students in 2017 to 15,000 students in 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution. would close within a decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Between 2004 and 2017, the proportion of first-year students who spent more than 15 hours a week studying or otherwise preparing for class increased from 34 to 45 percent , but that still meant more than half of students spent 15 or fewer hours a week studying outside class.

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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. Another part of his plan involved making the economics department an independent division, apart from arts and sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

In addition, the financial rivalry distracts from other worthwhile aims of higher education by encouraging the public to view a postsecondary degree as a monetary investment and, therefore, to undervalue liberal arts disciplines that are thought to lead to less lucrative careers.

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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. “In 2017, the college undertook a data-driven strategic planning effort to respond to the predicted enrollment decline in higher education across the country.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Liberal arts and sciences, which was the third most enrolled major, saw a sharp 4.8% Its 15 million enrolled graduate students is still higher than pre-pandemic 2017, which had nearly 14 million students enrolled. This is the first drop recorded for the program since the fall of 2017. bump in students enrolled.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

ATI members run the gamut, from the entire Ivy League and flagship publics to regional comprehensive universities, and a variety of private liberal arts colleges. Our research shows that just three percent of the Fall 2017 transfer cohort enrolled at selective colleges and universities.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Outside of the liberal arts, programs in risk include business, journalism/communication, education, nursing, and family & consumer sciences. Institutional Closings The majority of school closings are for-profit institutions, but nonprofits, rural colleges, and small liberal arts colleges are most at risk for closure.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Outside of the liberal arts, programs in risk include business, journalism/communication, education, nursing, and family & consumer sciences. Institutional Closings The majority of school closings are for-profit institutions, but nonprofits, rural colleges, and small liberal arts colleges are most at risk for closure.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

He co-authored a 2017 report for the TIA Institute and a book, Strategic Mergers and Higher Education, published by John Hopkins Press. In the case of Augusta, they merged a health sciences institution with a liberal arts/masters institution. Dr. Ricardo Azziz was instrumental in implementing that merger.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 17, 2017

In fact, a 2017 study out of Northwestern University found that faculty members can offer both brilliant scholarship and brilliant teaching. This can be problematic as liberal arts institutions which offer a multi-disciplinary approach to learning — have fallen out of favor.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 28, 2018

In fact, a 2017 study by Northwestern University found that faculty members can offer both brilliant scholarships and brilliant teaching. This can be problematic as liberal arts institutions which offer a multi-disciplinary approach to learning — have fallen out of favor.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2018

For example, Education Dive pointed to the unbundling of higher education, the transitional nature of todays college students who transfer to multiple colleges, the return of the liberal arts education, and the infusion of augmented reality into higher education.

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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. The guilds all controlled their membership and awarded their own qualifications.

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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. The New American Scholar 20 October 2017 On September first 1858, at the laying of the cornerstone of the Missionary Institute, now Selinsgrove Hall, Joseph Casey, Esq.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. In 2017 she was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship. Julianne : It has!

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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. XULA students in liberal arts or STEM can enter Lehigh’s master of science in management program, earning a degree in 10 months.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

However, in 2017, Professor Douglas Webber of Temple University roughly found that for every $1,000 in state budget cuts, students pay an extra $300 – $315 more per year in tuition and fees. In 2017, Professor Douglas Webber of Temple University tested that hypothesis. There are also more administrators per student than before.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A good liberal arts education should make us do that. And maybe, just maybe, I provided a better liberal arts education in Qatar than I thought. The human rights organization Amnesty International recognizes the “noticeable improvements for the country’s two million migrant workers” since 2017.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

But plans were scuttled in 2017 due to state politics and resistance from UH , prompting this reaction from the UH System’s Board Chairman: “The University of Houston is pleased that UT is not expanding in Houston. ” And especially in Houston. All worthy goals and leagues better than top U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors. The MCSS and MICU will host a Liberal Arts Transfer Summit in July 2023 to publicize and celebrate the project’s achievements.

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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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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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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 7, 2025

Background Founded in 1749, Washington and Lee University (W&L) is a private liberal arts college located in Lexington, Virginia. The school became coeducational in 1985 and is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges nationally. The President of Washington and Lee since 2017 is William (Will) Dudley.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

RAs at peer institutions are trying to seize the momentum from these victories, hoping to capitalize on the pressure for their progressive liberal arts schools to live the values they claim to espouse. Students at Barnard and Mount Holyoke are acting on a precedent set by that board in 2017. Student Worker: Oxymoron or Reality?

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. 2017) For the Common Good: A New History of Higher Education in America Cornell University Press. Diploma Mills: How For-profit Colleges Stiffed Students, Taxpayers, and the American Dream. Archibald, R.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

Overall state funding for public two- and four-year colleges in the 2017 school year (that is, the school year ending in 2017) was nearly $9 billion below its 2008 level, after adjusting for inflation. al, 2017 ). Immigration to the United States also slowed between 2017 – 2021.

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