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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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

An accomplished academic and administrator, Kiss earned her master’s and doctorate degree from Oxford College after earning a Rhodes scholarship. Kiss also served 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College, an all-womens liberal arts college in Atlanta. Retiring Matt Wetstein – Cabrillo College (Calif.)

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. Notably, the COVID-19 pandemic prompted hiring freezes at many U.S. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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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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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. which we know today.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The new president will lead Wagner College, where he will be expected to help transform and grow the liberal arts college. Warner cultivated excitement around RIC’s options by introducing a new cybersecurity center and creating an attractive dual enrollment scholarship.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And when fall grades will be determined, and by whom, have been open questions at both the New School and UC—which is particularly worrisome to students who rely on grade point averages to maintain scholarships and U.S. visa statuses. Learning at the New School. “Some students are in dire need,” Yang said.

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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. Think about the teacher example that José Luis brought up.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

The study defines a good job as one that pays a minimum of around $38,000 in 2020 for workers younger than age 35. But for the purposes of this research, we defined a good job as a job that pays a minimum of around $38,000 in 2020 for workers younger than age 35. The median pay is around $57,000 annually.

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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. Julianne K Viola is a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship (CHERS).

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. 2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). Kennette is a professor of psychology and the research coordinator in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. 2016; Landrum & Nelson, 2002; Valdez & Liu, 2020). Kennette is a professor of psychology and the research coordinator in the Faculty of Liberal Studies at Durham College in Oshawa, Ontario.

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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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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the postsecondary realm, Walz approved a $650 million budget, which ignited a last-dollar scholarship program last year affording tuition-free schooling to state residents. The philanthropic organization had last donated $100 million to these schools in 2020, which was the then-largest donation they had ever received. 10 History 53.5

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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. It later took on its current name in honor of Robert E.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lauded for his leadership in the liberal arts, Baucom serves as the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at Virginia and previously served as dean of its College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences for eight years.

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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 Norbert College (Catholic, liberal arts, Wisconsin) is planning to cut faculty and its theology department. (I million deficit. More cuts: St.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

schools in the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic years. International student enrollment is making a comeback from the 46 percent drop in the 2020/2021 academic year, but it is still only 87 percent of the number of international students who were enrolled in 2019/2020.

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Academe Blog

MAY 7, 2025

The AAUP sought to address this in 2020 in the Committee A report In Defense of Knowledge and Higher Education. “Cuts in funding,’ the report explained, have led to greater reliance on private support, which has augmented the role of wealthy donors, who may seek to restrict or direct scholarship in service of ideology or interest.

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