Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier. is clearly growing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The events of 2020 are still resonating. said 2020 helped corporations, nonprofits, educational institutions, and government entities see there was crucial work to be done in creating a more just and equitable environment and society. “If We’re impacting people’s lives, and that should never be misunderstood or underestimated.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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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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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.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

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. Both Jenkins and Gillespie noted that Bates’ commitment to the liberal arts made Jenkins a great fit to foster “student engagement” and a “culture of collaboration.”

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University Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Elon University, a private university based in the liberal arts in North Carolina, recently announced that it’s promising that 90% of its students will reach a foundational level of “data competency” by the time they graduate. As the nature of work changes, more industries demand that new employees be data literate.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Southern New Hampshire, for example, grew from 135,000 students in March 2020 to 175,000 today, according to Paul LeBlanc, the institution’s president. The extra 10,000 students could, on their own, populate a midsize traditional university, or several small liberal arts colleges. In 2020, before the pandemic, 0.28

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The four-year degree isn’t working for a lot of people,” Lori Carrell, the chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, told her colleagues around the table, noting higher education’s high cost and low degree attainment, which has “squandered human potential at times.” ” Pasquerella said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

percent of member institutions limit the number of one-on-one counseling sessions students can attend, usually per semester or year (AUCCCD did not measure this in its 2020–21 survey). A 2019–20 survey by the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors found that 45.6

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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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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gillis: I’m an assistant professor in sociology at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. I wasn’t aware of [HyFlex’s] existence until the pandemic, like many instructors, when I taught five out of my six in the 2020–21 year in HyFlex modality with basically no training.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

In 2020, we released a paper about a new way of evaluating institutions of higher education. People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations. And we could talk about the kinds of roles that students in arts and humanities played, which often were leadership positions, either management or C-suite offices.

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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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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. Brett’s work prioritises Activity Theory conceptions of human practice, and interventionist methodologies. Julianne : It has!

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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. First is Sarah Coen.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

“I’m not hearing this morning about a migration away from the liberal arts, or the death of the liberal arts,” Daniel Lugo, president of Queens University of Charlotte and the session’s moderator, said to the three female executives on the stage with him.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. The question of how to incorporate digital technology into traditional human knowledge acquisition is essential to the future of universities.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. The question of how to incorporate digital technology into traditional human knowledge acquisition is essential to the future of universities.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Between 2010 and 2020, the Houston metro area added 1.2 ” The unspoken objective was to demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education in a nation that Freedom House ranks 48th out of 100 (“partly free”) due to limited political rights and civil liberties. million new residents, a 20.3 percent growth rate.

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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. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy. Johns Hopkins Press.

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