University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Still, out of the many unforgettable characters I’ve had the enormous privilege of interacting with, one who stands out was the late Peter Marzio, who directed the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for nearly thirty years. Unlike many museum directors, he wasn’t an art historian. He was a history Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. 2022), 16-26. 2022), 16-26. " Sept.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 24, 2023

9, 2023) Following many English professors’ repetitive romanticized myths that falsely oppose subjectivity and objectivity, Newman grasps onto “brain science. 9, 2023) Following many English professors’ repetitive romanticized myths that falsely oppose subjectivity and objectivity, Newman grasps onto “brain science.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 28, 2022

” In other words, that which isn’t science is a trivial and inconsequential waste of time. ” Those words give vivid expression to a deep divide between those who value creative writing and the arts and those who attach the greatest importance to scientific inquiry, I sense that my students tend to fall into one of two camps.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar. Is there also a role for the arts, humanities, and social sciences (AHSS) to play in meeting future skills and workforce needs?

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the years since Leon and Rosenzweig’s volume was published, history museums and historic sites have undergone a reckoning of, yes, historic proportions. To attract broader audiences, many history museums embraced emerging technologies, introducing orientation films, dramatic lighting, simulations and interactives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. They have proliferated in range and subject.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Other landmark publications include Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary (University of Virginia Press, 2020) and Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World (Stanford University Press, 2022).

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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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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. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size? ” Wait a second.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Notre Dame is one of several institutions experimenting with unconventional cybersecurity awareness training in the form of festivals, art installations and role-playing games. The incident was one of an increasing number of cyberattacks against colleges since 2020. Cybersecurity Festivals. Cyberthreats are the “No.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Octopuses and Tentacles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Moderated by AAC&U President Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, the discussion comes at a time when the topic of AI tools continues to make its rounds through public discourse nationally and internationally, particularly in sectors such as art, writing, and labor. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said. These new AI tools.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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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. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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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. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

A hugely present issue when I proposed the course in spring of 2022 was the resurgence of book bans occurring in schools and libraries around the country. Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. When students are actively engaged, they have a tendency to perform better and retain information more efficiently. Signaling is the use of on-screen text or symbols to emphasize vital information (i.e.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

” In her 2022 study of the toll of structural racism and prejudice on African Americans’ physical and mental health, Linda Villarosa, a former executive editor at Essence magazine and a contributor on race, health, and inequality to The New York Times Magazine , shows that racial disparities in life expectancy cut across class lines.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

The company that Tony Blair’s son Euan founded, Multiverse, arranges professional apprenticeships in business operations, data science, and software engineering. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Just when colleges and universities began to feel that operations were returning to normal, new variants and mutations emerged to upset the apple cart.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. in public health in 2022. Instead, she found herself drawn to public health, inspired by an introductory course in the subject required for both public health and nursing majors. and growth in existing ones.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 22, 2023

Problem 4: A Shortage of General Purpose Classrooms and Science Labs Everywhere I’ve taught, there is a lack of general purpose classrooms. To make it easier for students to balance their studies with their work and caregiving responsibilities and be able to participate in extracurricular activities.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. Craft also helped establish a diversity office and oversaw the creation or revitalization of the college’s teaching, learning and recreational facilities, as well as centers for integrated science and student success.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I’ve gotten a fair amount of pushback on my piece on K-12 school reform and the failure of grade schools, middle schools, and high schools, to close achievement gaps. Those comments deserve a detailed response. As some of my correspondents have pointed out: 1. Indeed, they are more segregated today than in the late 1960s.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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