Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Seeking an Enrollment Hail Mary, Small Colleges Look to Athletics Liam Knox Mon, 12/04/2023 - 03:00 AM As enrollment challenges compound for small liberal arts colleges, some are betting big on new athletics programs, hoping they’ll result in new tuition revenue. Byline(s) Liam Knox

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In May 2023, interim president Dr. Kimberly Ballard-Washington stepped down citing personal issues, following a controversial campus reorganization that eliminated several major programs including English, history, environmental science, and Africana studies.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. The six-year graduation rate stands at an impressive 88%, among the highest for liberal arts colleges in the Pacific Northwest. international markets, and underrepresented student populations.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2024

University of Redlands Announces Another Merger jessica.blake@… Wed, 01/17/2024 - 03:00 AM The planned merger with Woodbury University, a small, private liberal arts institution in California, follows a wave of college mergers and closures in 2023. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

News & World Report has published its annual rankings of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) for the 2023-24 academic year, revealing the latest standings. Spelman also became the top HBCU for social mobility this year, while remaining among the top 40 Best National Liberal Arts colleges.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution. In that sense, Cazenovia offers a contrast to Quest College.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. Dr. Paul Sniegowski, a biologist and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania, has served as President since August 2024. For the 2023-24 academic year, U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In fall of 2023, 5.3% Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Despite the collaborative efforts of the entire Northland family, we no longer have the resources needed to navigate the economic and demographic storms endangering small, liberal arts institutions today, said Ted Bristol, chair of the college’s board of trustees. Full-time student enrollment dropped 69% between 2017 and 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Just as much as they are, he’s attending as an enrolled student, completing assignments and participating in discussions – and, he also happens to be the community college’s Dean of Liberal Arts and Education. The application for the 2023-24 Impact Academy fellowship is open now through April 1, 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

Petersen will become president of Hendrix College, effective June 2023. Petersen Petersen is a professor of political science and dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa (TU). She was previously faculty and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU). “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. Mount Holyoke is a gender-inclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, one of the historic Seven Sisters, a group of highly selective women’s liberal arts institutions in the Northeast. Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

One state House bill introduced in 2023 attempted to let lawmakers ban certain majors they deemed liberal, or “woke.” One private liberal arts college overhauled by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political appointees in 2023 quickly abolished its gender studies major and fired the top DEI officer.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. Known for its commitment to mentored undergraduate research, Wooster offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in a residential setting. states and 76 countries. states and 76 countries.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

Rosemont, which enrolled less than 800 students in fall 2023, will be absorbed by the larger private Catholic research university over the next several years and will eventually become “Villanova University, Rosemont Campus.” In 2023, it failed to pay employees on time and was evicted from its Walnut Hills Campus.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Signs of trouble began through 2023 after it failed to pay employees on time and was evicted from its Walnut Hills Campus, WCPO reports. Year founded: 1900 Union Institute & University (Ohio) Union Institute & University announced it would close just nine days before its intended date on June 30 due to issues surrounding the pandemic.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

From fall 2021 to fall 2023, enrollment in computer and information sciences increased by 21.4% art history students are tasked with creating a search on the cost and origin of 17th-century textiles, for example, according to the school’s website. At Middlebury College (Vt.),

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Anne McCall will become the 13th president of the College of Wooster, effective July 2023, which will make her the second woman in the role. McCall holds a Bachelor of Arts in French and German from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Strasbourg in France. .

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. They seek rigorous academics and associate that with strong STEM programs in a liberal arts context as the top characteristics of a great university. And they need to prepare themselves for future work, in relevant ways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

In 2019, many alumni voiced their dissent of her candidacy due to her lack of liberal arts college experience, which proved to be prescient,” the coalition stated. Tougaloo is not alone in facing declining enrollment, a national trend and a concern at many liberal arts institutions.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students at the liberal arts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. More from UB: Lawmakers, donors disagreed on DEI in 2023. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies. “That’s not our niche.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

News rankings, published on September 18, saw MIT come in second place in its rankings for national universities, with Harvard and Stanford in a tie at third place and Yale taking fifth place – an entirely unchanged top five from 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Thompson Shannon Reeves, vice president of governmental affairs and external relations at Alabama A&M, said the Huntsville-based historically Black university is conducting due diligence to prepare to extend an offer for the defunct private, liberal arts college, expected to close May 31.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2023

The small liberal arts school typically has 2,500-2,600 students, but enrollment this fall could be upward of 2,845, a Middlebury spokesperson said. The $10,000 offer is available to the first 30 juniors and seniors who take a leave of absence for the fall 2023 semester and winter term.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In April 2023, the Association of American Universities launched a task force in line with the U.S.-India Over 140,000 study visas were issued to US-bound Indian students in 2023, with the number expected to rise in 2024. This is why our countries invest in that program.” India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Civil rights leader Maya Wiley will be the keynote speaker at the New College of Florida (NCF) graduating Class of 2023’s alternative commencement ceremony May 18, the Herald Tribune reported. Maya Wiley Wiley – civil rights activist, attorney, and professor – is the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

Beasley is committed to ensuring Trinity receives national recognition as a leader in liberal arts education. President of Trinity University since July 2022, Dr. Vanessa B. This involves a commitment to the student experience, which includes interdisciplinary experiential learning and undergraduate research.

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These are the best college presidents of the centuryaccording to one list The American Enterprise Institute ranked over 400 college presidents from 2001-2023 based on their contributions to access, affordability and student success. 29 that spring 2023 would be its final term due to mounting debt. Read the story. Read the story.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Williams College faculty voted 81-5 to approve the creation of an Asian American studies (AAS) concentration beginning Fall 2023, The Williams Record reported. The vote – done at a Dec.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Ward, president since 2019, will retire at the end of June 2025, the conclusion of Luther’s 2023-25 strategic plan. Lastly, the private liberal arts school strengthened its athletics department, adding women’s and men’s wrestling, eSports, women’s and men’s lacrosse and other sports.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Gellman is an associate professor of political science at Emerson’s Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies. Section: Academic Minute File: 01-10-23 Emerson - How does cultural survival happen - One word at a time.mp3 Event's date: Monday, January 9, 2023 - 5:15pm Insider only:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. At the very small liberal arts college [Swarthmore College] I attended, I unwittingly pursued a four-year internship in academic administration. Flexibility and rigor aren’t diametrically opposed.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

The state, and its flagship institution, experienced a rude awakening in 2023, when the slow-paced, “timeless” way of life in their favorite song was confronted with the volatile reality of contemporary higher education, specifically lower enrollment and a $45 million budget shortfall.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Also receiving the Spotlight Award was liberal arts institution Cedar Crest College , Pennsylvania, for its Carmen Twillie Ambar Sophomore Expedition. Congrats #AlbanyState for receiving the 2023 NAFSA Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award, for its Curriculum Internationalization initiative.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution.

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