Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. 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. granting universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

This program presents an opportunity to help rectify that and also to understand the lasting impact that cannabis has had on human history and evolution, she said. Roanoke College is a small liberal arts school in the middle of a very red part of the state. I think my mouth unhinged,” she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

The anonymous professor said the president has done exactly that through a past layoff attempt that was only reversed after alumni pressured the university to keep threatened positions in the humanities.). According to federal data, Adrian listed 97 full-time instructors in 2019, but that number had dropped to 85 by 2021.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

Likewise, Georgia Tech promotes interdisciplinary study in AI through a new minor available to its liberal arts and engineering students. Harvard University : The Kempner Institute for the Study of Artificial and Natural Intelligence founded in 2021 has benchmarked the Ivy League’s revamped faculty and research focus on AI.

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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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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 15, 2021. In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel. I feel like teaching from home will humanize me,” a colleague said. © Magna Publications.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Afghan women, who’d been worried about their opportunities since the militant Sunni Muslim ruling power took over the country in August 2021, saw their dreams of attaining a postsecondary degree quashed—no matter how close they were to earning it. Dozens of male Afghan professors resigned in protest. Simon’s Rock, Mass.;

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

By the end of the century, 1,500 languages could cease to exist, according to a 2021 study by a group of Australian researchers, “Global Predictors of Language Endangerment and the Future of Linguistic Diversity,” published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. nonprofit working to protect and revitalize languages across the globe.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

He will be arriving this July from Minnesota Law School where he served as dean and set a record-high $106 million in fundraising, mightily surpassing its $80 million target in 2021 and doubling the school’s endowment overall at the end of his tenure. ” Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills, Aurora University (Aurora, Ill.)

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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 2021, amid COVID-19, the college said that it was experiencing a structural deficit and needed to cut at least $1.5 Chinese Cut.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

Defending the liberal arts Sacred Heart, like other liberal arts colleges across the country, is facing pressure from lawmakers and employers to ensure its students are workforce-ready. Amid the change, however, the private Roman Catholic University has proven it’s not sacrificing its respect for the humanities.

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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

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It’s adding them July 1.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 15, 2021. In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel. I feel like teaching from home will humanize me,” a colleague said. © Magna Publications.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

Phillips will be responsible for revamping Chatham’s academic program catalog specifically in health sciences and liberal arts. Students and alumni first started calling for her resignation in 2021 for a variety of reasons, such as declining enrollment, administrative resignations and “abysmal facilities.”

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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. They want the convenience of asynchronous work coupled with the humanity of synchronous meetings. Today, that population has grown to approximately 43,750 students.

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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

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

At the state level, the University of Texas system launched a database linking degrees to workforce outcomes in 2014; the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education began collecting similar data in its workforce outcomes database in fall 2021. “Humanities majors want jobs, too.”

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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. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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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. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So it’s very surprising that Colby College is not a stem institution, it’s a private liberal arts college that established the institute called the Davis Institute for artificial intelligence in 2021.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

This is the second of four installments in our (Re)Precedented Webinar Series, which originally took place live in September and October of 2021. ?. Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Webinar Summary.

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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

This is the first of four installments in our (Re)Precedented Webinar Series, which originally took place live in September and October of 2021. And with two decades of experience in and around higher education, he is a sharp thinker on all things enrollment, not to mention, he is a fantastic human being. Webinar Summary.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The 2021 metastudy recommended that until “feasible, reliable and fair methods for evaluating teaching and learning are established,” more “caution should be taken in the use of SETs [student evaluations of teaching] in hiring, tenure, and promotion decisions and alternative assessments of teaching should be further utilized.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The four-year graduation rate at the Cal State campuses reached a record high—33 percent—in 2021. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. The six-year rate also rose, to 63 percent. coherent, integrated curricular pathways.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. Drumm McNaughton I would agree.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 10, 2025

Background Founded in 1832, Gettysburg College is a private liberal arts institution located in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Curricula Gettysburg College offers more than 40 majors and 40 minors, spanning the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Graduation rates have remained high.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 6, 2025

Baldwin, Davarian (2021). A Former United States Secretary of Education and a Liberal Arts Graduate Expose the Broken Promise of Higher Education. William (2021). The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. Groeger, Cristina Viviana (2021). Maire, Quentin (2021).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Human Cost: Emotional and Professional Toll The report and subsequent discussions shed light on the significant emotional and professional impact these developments have had on faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

He is the recipient of the WCET Richard Jonsen Award, CAEL’s Morris Keeton Ward, the President’s Medal from Excelsior College, and USDLA’s Distance Learning Hall of Fame Award, as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Fielding Graduate University for his contributions to the field of adult learning. 00:42:23] Drumm: Oh, okay.

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