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Why these leaders want to secure the liberal arts in a digital world

University Business

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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President moves: Announcing a surge of hires, including this state flagship

University Business

His contribution to the college’s 2021 strategic plan also resulted in the launch of several varsity men’s and women’s athletics teams, according to the university. An accomplished academic and administrator, Kiss earned her master’s and doctorate degree from Oxford College after earning a Rhodes scholarship.

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Support community-to-independent-college transfer (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Further, most independent colleges offer a liberal arts education, which recent scholarship has indicated to be associated with increased well-being and participation in civic life as well as improved long-term financial outcomes. On average, these students transferred in with 61.5 credits and received $4.5

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

A few are going further, asking what they can do to help Afghan women regain control of their academic futures, whether through scholarships to U.S. “Maybe there is a complacency that’s kicking in with respect to Afghanistan, now that we’re more than a year beyond August 2021,” he said. The Taliban's Dec.

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Asian universities compete as global educators

The PIE News

Definitely a very attractive point for Asian destinations Josephine Phinith, ICEF Rob Turner, international development and marketing manager at International College of Liberal arts (ICLA), stressed that sharing co-curricular activities is mutually beneficial. Mixing domestic and international students.

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Cazenovia College Closes, In a Possible Harbinger for Similar Schools

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No We expected there to be a lot more closures [in 2021 and ‘22] because of COVID,” said Burns.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. percent between 2011 and 2021. liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring. is clearly growing.