University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

Despite the collaborative efforts of the entire Northland family, we no longer have the resources needed to navigate the economic and demographic storms endangering small, liberal arts institutions today, said Ted Bristol, chair of the college’s board of trustees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

decrease was observed for undergraduate transfer enrollment from 2020-2022. decrease from 2020-2022. Meanwhile, other transfer pathways saw enrollment rising back up in 2022, though still not enough to prevent an overall decrease from 2020-2022, the report noted. in 2021 to -2.3% An overall 6.9% in 2021 to now -1.5%.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). The $100 million award comes from billionaire couple Ronda Stryker, director and granddaughter of the founder of the medical technology company Stryker Corp.,

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. The post US ambassador urges more study opportunities for US students in India appeared first on The PIE News.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

percent from 2016 to 2020—the largest drop since it began its survey in 1958. ” Diversity Religious Colleges Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Faculty Research universities Languages Liberal arts Image Caption: St. percent,” the association wrote. John’s University Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

His last academic appointment was at Mercy from 2017 to 2020 as the vice president of academic affairs. Lastly, the private liberal arts school strengthened its athletics department, adding women’s and men’s wrestling, eSports, women’s and men’s lacrosse and other sports. Laurie Patton – Middlebury College (Vt.)

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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. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences promotes career readiness skills, so every discipline is developing the students’ verbal and written skills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Title: Provost, Ohio Wesleyan University Dr. Karlyn Crowley began her tenure as provost on July 1, 2020 as the senior officer overseeing Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU)’s academics and operations. Like Ohio Wesleyan, Karlyn is deeply committed to the value and power of the residential liberal arts experience.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Back in December of 2020, the foundation awarded the then-budding EPP a $745,000 24-month grant that allowed the team to build up and grow. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said. million award marks Mellon’s second contribution to the program.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million who enrolled in fall 2020, soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began. In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5 percent after growing 3 percent in 2020 and 2.4 million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24

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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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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. Why does it cost almost the same to get a B.A.

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University Business

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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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college. What Is The State of Whittier College?

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

Kiss also served 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College, an all-womens liberal arts college in Atlanta. She is now CEO of the Rhodes Trust and is credited for raising a record amount of money for the program across Africa, India, Pakistan and China,according to a university statement.

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

Their concerns aren’t unfounded: Average assessment scores between 2020 and 2022 have dropped by 5%, the largest ever recorded by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). While enrollment seems to have either increased or steadied in 2022, the 5-year decline is driven by a massive drop in 2020.

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University Business

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. But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bloomfield—a small private liberal arts college in Bloomfield, N.J., Like many small liberal arts colleges, Bloomfield has dealt with dwindling enrollment for years. Then March 2020 hit.” Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. A Plea for Help.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier. universities , the effects of which are apparent in the decline in new assistant professorships in 2020 seen in our data. Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted hiring freezes at many U.S.

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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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

Within each category, it calculates the sum of weighted, normalized values across 17 indicators of academic quality to determine each school’s overall score and, ultimately, ranking: National Universities National Liberal Arts Colleges Regional Universities (North, South, Midwest, and West) Regional Colleges (North, South, Midwest, and West) U.S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

At least 20 colleges closed in 2024, and more are set to shut down after the current academic year, according to the latest tally by Implan, an economic software and analysis company.Altogether, more than 40 colleges have closed since 2020, according to a separate report by Best Colleges.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Nearly half had been in the process of doing so before the pandemic, although that number dropped to 21% from 2020 to 2021. Two-thirds of U.S. Eighty-seven percent of college graduates with a journalism degree say they would pick a different field of study if they could, earning that degree the dubious distinction of being the most regretted.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

To what degree are these new start-ups reflections of a distinctly American approach to the liberal arts, and to what degree do they reflect local traditions and aspirations? Ashokas imprint can be seen in the National Education Policy issued by the government in 2020 and in subsequent government promulgations.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. “That’s an advantage that we have that you wouldn’t necessarily see in a small liberal arts college in the middle of the Midwest with many other competing schools.” program during the 2020–21 school year.

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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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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

APRIL 7, 2023

“The first thing that comes to mind is if it’s a proposal to reduce, does that mean a reduction in general education or the liberal arts and sciences at a time when that type of education is more critical than ever for addressing the wicked problems and grand challenges of which COVID-19 was emblematic?”

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Liaison International

APRIL 5, 2023

In the rolling hills of Amherst, Massachusetts, Hampshire College offers students a unique and unconventional liberal arts education. Read the full case study “After our first year with Othot in 2020, our enrollment jumped by 61% and the second year, by another 67%. Not many schools like this exist.

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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

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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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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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

JANUARY 9, 2023

Another mathematics professor at a liberal arts college who has served on the American Mathematical Society Council spoke on the condition of anonymity, as she was not authorized to speak in that capacity. (Disclosure: The author is a mathematician with a track record of efforts aimed at diversifying the math community.

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IHEP

JANUARY 7, 2022

In 2020, the onset of a global pandemic changed the course of lives around the world and today nearly one in five working-age adults in the United States has “some college, no degree” (SCND). Key findings include: Running degree audits for transfer-oriented degrees in general studies and liberal arts yield the most earned credentials.

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