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. " Sept. Ohio State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race. But they never came.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

President Doug Hicks graduated from Davidson College at a time not too far separated from when the small private liberal arts college still capped enrollment of women. When he returned to the campus in 2022 as its newly appointed president, he was greeted by a microcosm of the modern American experience.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The science track will teach students about the biology, botany, and chemistry of cannabis, while the social justice and policy track will dive into matters of relating to the history and governmental regulations. Roanoke College is a small liberal arts school in the middle of a very red part of the state. According to U.S.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

He earned the 2024 Outstanding Educator Award from the Great Lakes Athletic Trainers’ Association and the 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign College of Applied Health Sciences. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Dasha Lundy, executive vice president and chief operations officer, is hoping to follow in the footsteps of other HBCUs who have regained accreditation through TRACS, the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, like Paine College in November 2022 and Morris Brown College (MBC) in April.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The courses span various fields – including criminology, social welfare and justice, and history – and touch on topics such as mass incarceration, surveillance, poetry, and the psychology of adolescent development. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Typically that will mean something like a liberal arts transfer major. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit. But most students don’t want liberal arts majors when they get to college. Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The institution has a storied history.

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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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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

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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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. Their family foundation disbursed more than $132 million in 2021 and 2022, The Observer reports. The post $100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College appeared first on University Business.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

A small private, often religiously oriented liberal arts college struggling with a poor budget deficit can no longer rely on a regional pool of traditional-aged college students due to demographic changes. Iowa Wesleyan University: Closed during the conclusion of the 2022-23 academic year. The university was 126 years old.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

in public health in 2022. Emily Burke, senior director of workforce development and applied practice at ASPPH and another author of the study, said that focusing on public health at the undergraduate level is in some ways akin to pursuing the liberal arts. ” Edson is hardly alone. ” Unique Challenges.

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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. King’s community must have held Whitaker in high regard, for the Christian university received its largest individual alumni gift and unrestricted financial gift in its 157-year history.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Embrace the applied and the practical liberal arts: Why not offer liberal arts majors or certificates that offer a vocational payoff, for example, in development and philanthropy, multimodal communication, including visual and online communication, policy planning and analysis, technical writing, or translation?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In my view, a college education shouldn’t just cultivate students’ cognitive, analytic and problem-solving abilities or expand their content knowledge or merely instill the cultural literacies that we associate with a rich liberal arts education. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. In 2022, he earned a Diversity and Inclusion Award from Minnesota Lawyer and made the Lawyers of Color ‘s “Power List” in 2020 and 2023. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

We are here because deeply engaging in the life of the mind and opening ourselves up to the holistic world view that is the core of a liberal arts education prepare us to make good and often difficult decisions. 1] Adapted from Bede: Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation , translated by J.E. Welcome home! [1]

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance. ” When Belmont administrators were developing the job description for the new position, L.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. The university awarded one bachelor’s degree in African and African American studies in fall 2022, a university spokeswoman said. “A working group was convened in Spring of 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. He has served as the college’s interim president since January 2022. An avid professor, she taught history at Presbyterian and Mercer University while dean.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It might actually accomplish what Georgetown’s Dean of the School of Continuing Education says the online liberal arts degree completion program promises: “to empower more students to finish their bachelor’s degree, but also transform their lives.” Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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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 December 2022, Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina laid off 21 staff and six faculty members.

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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 December 2022, Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina laid off 21 staff and six faculty members.

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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. Administrators chose Parwinder Grewal in July of 2022 to oversee the revamp and hopefully return the merged institution to financial stability. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I may be old-fashioned, but what I consider essential to a liberal arts education is the interaction with a scholar and with classmates. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

When the Waldorf Foundation purchased the private liberal arts school in December 2022, the Business Affairs department was tasked with managing procurement themselves which involved a steep learning curve. For instance, Academics is a group and each individual department is a subgroup, such as “education” and “history.”

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

My first thought after reading it was, “If I were designing the Cal State system in 2022, starting with a blank sheet of paper, this paper would be one decent blueprint to start from.” It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 30, 2022

We are Saved by Love [ These were my remarks to the class of 2022 at their commencement on Saturday. ] 1] Written a century ago, it sounds as if Yeats is describing this moment in history. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith.

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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’. The grant of the MA has undergone changes.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Michael Meranze, a professor of history at UCLA who has written about the strike, told Inside Higher Ed , “There is no question that the strike has had a real effect on instruction and thereby on the undergraduates. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework.

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. Open to students in Fall 2022! These are my top 10 reasons!

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