Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. In 2020, that plan became concrete, and the search was on to find a director who could do that. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one. Photo courtesy of David Canton.

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An experienced leader in his own right, Benson is the current president of Coastal Carolina University, where he secured a $10 million gift, the largest in school history, according to a university statement. Kiss also served 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College, an all-womens liberal arts college in Atlanta.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 ” Accounting for time to tenure, the researchers estimate that between 2013 and 2020, 45,309 Ph.D.s in 2020, the paper says. Meanwhile, the U.S. percentage points per year.

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MAY 3, 2024

His last academic appointment was at Mercy from 2017 to 2020 as the vice president of academic affairs. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The courses span various fields – including criminology, social welfare and justice, and history – and touch on topics such as mass incarceration, surveillance, poetry, and the psychology of adolescent development. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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JUNE 4, 2024

The nonprofit membership organization with over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations believes that much of the uproar against higher education since 2020 derives from a small and coordinated effort by wealthy Republican- and Libertarian-backed megadonors.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If we include popular majors like communications, the share of humanities majors was just under 10 percent in 2020. Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal. What’s behind this decline?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. The program got approval last spring. “For

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DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to the study, the number of graduates with an undergraduate degree in public health jumped by more than 1,100 percent between 2001 and 2020, outpacing master’s degrees as the most popular public health degree by 2020. The increase comes from a combination of new undergraduate public health programs in the U.S.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. Additionally, this donation rivals that of the $120 donated to Spelman, Morehouse, and the United Negro College Fund by the co-founder of Netflix donated in 2020. which we know today.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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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. ” But enrollment has since declined.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There, students get the chance to do research, conduct oral histories, work with community leaders, and help document traumatic and often-silenced refugee stories. “We Chang shares.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

As of 2020, just one-fifth of the total number of nonprofit colleges and universities owned nearly 99 percent of endowment in higher education; the wealthiest 3 percent owned 80 percent of endowment, and the richest 1 percent owned more than half. But the growth rate of the U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. program during the 2020–21 school year. “I think we’ve turned the corner,” Smolla said.

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MARCH 14, 2023

Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. In 2022, he earned a Diversity and Inclusion Award from Minnesota Lawyer and made the Lawyers of Color ‘s “Power List” in 2020 and 2023. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W.

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MARCH 20, 2023

Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. By way of contrast, consider the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 pledge to contribute $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to renovate decrepit schools. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. New York: Harper Collins, 2020. Liberal Arts Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education , edited by J. New York: College Board, 1995.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image: Andriyana Baran spent the 2020–21 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in the United States, serving as a teaching assistant and helping to develop online learning curricula for the University of Kansas at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the past 10 months, a number of U.S.

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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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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. Best Colleges has been tracking college closures since 2020. Wesley College is now DSU’s downtown campus.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. Best Colleges has been tracking college closures since 2020. Wesley College is now DSU’s downtown campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There, students get the chance to do research, conduct oral histories, work with community leaders, and help document traumatic and often-silenced refugee stories. “We Chang shares.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Haley Nicole North, an American studies major at UC’s Berkeley campus who is currently finishing her senior honors thesis—and who, like many UC students, is sympathetic to strikers’ demands for a living wage—first transferred to Berkeley in the spring of 2020, weeks ahead of the pandemic hitting.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bill Conley William Conley began his career in education as an AP History teacher and coach at Delbarton School, transitioning into higher education enrollment management in 1980. And those colleges, especially private, small liberal arts colleges, are highly clustered in the Midwest and the Northeast. Nice to be here. [00:01:31]

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Jeff Kallay: Wait, 2020 or 2021? Mae Watters: I am.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

David shares how much the cost of education has risen from 1969 to 2020, why most college and university managers plan to budget, why this doesn’t help address the problem, and what higher ed can do to improve this. In 2020, it was just under $29,000, or 42% of the median household income. David Linton 06:35 Per year.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Join us for a discussion with two small schools that posted record enrollment numbers in 2020. Of course, as July and August wore on, it became very clear that we would not be post pandemic and that we might even be headed towards something closer to a repeat of 2020. Sarah came to Transy in August of 2020. We like that too.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in. But this was March of 2020. The pandemic, an event timestamped in the history of U.S. For the first time in her career, she was the president of a university.

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AUGUST 8, 2024

The philanthropic organization had last donated $100 million to these schools in 2020, which was the then-largest donation they had ever received. Department of Labor and O*NET, the analysis found that criminal justice, performing arts and art history majors have the highest underemployment rates. 2 Performing Arts 65.9

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Financial problems also played a role: Cornish declared it was undergoing a financial emergency in 2020, and this year, Seattle University paused hiring as it faces a $7.5 The university will shut down a group of departments: Art History, Economics; Geology; Philosophy; Theater and Dance; and Women and Gender Studies.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Books Alexander, Bryan (2020). 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. Women and Higher Education in American History. Bold Type Books.

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