Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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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. Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education.

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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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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. The idea to create a cannabis studies program at the Salem, Virginia school came from a faculty discussion in 2022 about out-of-the-box curriculum ideas.

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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?

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By focusing on graduate students’ primary motivations and concerns, we partnered with MSU to create a winning campaign to attract prospective students to the world-leading nuclear science lab. Request consultation Ripon College: Digital Advertising for Application Campaign Ripon College is an innovative liberal arts school in Wisconsin.

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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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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

International enrollment rose 4% during the 2021-22 school year and climbed another 9% in the fall 2022 semester. The list of least-regretted majors was topped by computer/information science and criminology (both 72%), engineering (71%), nursing (69%), health (67%), and business (66%). Source: CNBC.

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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. According to the Tampa Bay Times , St.

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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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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.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

At the online university where I work, students are introduced to the idea of growth and fixed mindsets upon entrance to college programming; furthermore, research indicates that multiple direct and indirect exposures to growth mindset interventions result in statistically significant positive attitudinal changes (Chambers, Lowe, and Muldrow, 2022).

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The data represents the most recent figures from fall 2022 enrollment. This percentage represents a difference of about 94,000 students from the over 15 million that had applied in Fall 2021 and 2022, which is a huge gain over the declines seen the years prior, 3.7% Regardless of degree levels, health science programs have declined.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: After more than two years of declining enrollment numbers, fall 2022 finally brought refreshing news: freshman enrollment, which represented the most significant deficits throughout the pandemic, is up from the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. and 2 percent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. As people are living and working longer, the need for on-going education and training grows.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

At the online university where I work, students are introduced to the idea of growth and fixed mindsets upon entrance to college programming; furthermore, research indicates that multiple direct and indirect exposures to growth mindset interventions result in statistically significant positive attitudinal changes (Chambers, Lowe, and Muldrow, 2022).

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. With level-headedness, Clarence D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Galizio A research brief on community college baccalaureate (CCB) students from the New America Foundation found, “Many CCB students are deeply rooted in their communities, often raising children and/or caring for aging parents, and they want to stay local” (Meza & Love, 2022). Marta is one of approximately 25 million adults in the U.S.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bloomfield—a small private liberal arts college in Bloomfield, N.J., Bloomfield will remain independent in the 2022–23 academic year, with the merger becoming official next June. Like many small liberal arts colleges, Bloomfield has dealt with dwindling enrollment for years. A Plea for Help.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. They have proliferated in range and subject. It could be asserted by both Oxford (c.1200)

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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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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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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. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“We’ve modeled what a more open search that’s acceptable to the board, faculty, staff and students looks like,” said Will Barndt, an associate professor of political science at Pitzer. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

in educational leadership from the University of New England that he earned after getting a bachelor’s degree in political science and government and a master’s degree from Western Illinois University. He now has a Ph.D. ” When Belmont administrators were developing the job description for the new position, L.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: Citing a structural deficit and the need to cut at least $1.5 million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. Unanswered Questions. So why was Chinese targeted? “Why was Chinese language and culture cut?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

In short, since 2022, the Mathematical Association of America has no longer shared management of the Joint Math Meetings. Many attendees were members of at least one of the organizations—and often only one. Instead, it now holds its national meetings activities at the much smaller, more intimate summer event known as Mathfest.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

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. One new presidential hire will be entering an office that hasn’t changed hands in 26 years.

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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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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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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In 2022, India overtook China as the biggest sender of students to the UK and demand for international education is unrivalled in the world’s most populous country. “If On an overcast Wednesday morning in Western India, a coach pulls up between a skyscraper and a building site.

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