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Small College America – Profile Wabash College

Edu Alliance Journal

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. Academic Excellence Wabash’s commitment to a rigorous liberal arts education is evident in its comprehensive curriculum and the requirement that seniors pass comprehensive exams.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

Coming into 2023, U.S. Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. all dropped out.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

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. News Ranking’s public law school ranks 18 spots to #6.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

By developing programs highlighting Echambadi’s guiding principles, Illinois Tech welcomed its largest class of first-year undergraduate students in its history in fall 2022, and also saw a 35 percent increase in new graduate students in spring 2023. We also have the first design school in the country. I was a physics major.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

The Change Leader, Inc.

You released your preliminary report in July of 2023. Even though we have no expertise in any of these subjects” [00:18:33] Drumm McNaughton: You know, one of the comments that I sawin your study was they were terminating programs that don’t fit in their definition of classic liberal arts model.

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Small College America – Profile: Washington and Lee University

Edu Alliance Journal

Background Founded in 1749, Washington and Lee University (W&L) is a private liberal arts college located in Lexington, Virginia. The school became coeducational in 1985 and is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges nationally. It later took on its current name in honor of Robert E.