Liberal Arts Microcredentials on the Rise
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 8, 2024
Liberal Arts Microcredentials on the Rise Sara Weissman Wed, 05/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Badges and certificates aren’t just for technical fields anymore. Byline(s) Sara Weissman
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Inside Higher Ed
MAY 8, 2024
Liberal Arts Microcredentials on the Rise Sara Weissman Wed, 05/08/2024 - 03:00 AM Badges and certificates aren’t just for technical fields anymore. Byline(s) Sara Weissman
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 19, 2024
Small Liberal Arts University Relocates Satellite Campuses to Bolster Transfers kathryn.palmer… Tue, 03/19/2024 - 03:00 AM Lakeland University has moved some of its learning centers onto two-year college campuses to create a steady pipeline of transfer students from the colleges. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer
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University Business
DECEMBER 16, 2024
A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down. To begin, we will backtrack and organize all of the college closings of 2024, paying particular attention to two- and four-year, public and private nonprofit institutions.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2025
in fall 2024, matching the increase seen in the previous year. in 2024 and 3.4% Faculty members who remained employed at the same institution from fall 2023 to fall 2024 saw more substantial gains, with a nominal increase of 4.7% The Consumer Price Index for Urban consumers (CPI-U) increased by 2.9% and a real increase of 1.8%
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
After a 2024 spike in international university applicants, Malaysia has primarily concentrated on the effects of first impressions and pastoral practices. Agents are part of the ecosystem of the education sector Novie Tajuddin, Education Malaysia Global Services Malaysian university courses are also based on the US liberal arts curriculum.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2024
Notre Dame College (NDC) in South Euclid, Ohio, has announced it will close its doors at the end of spring 2024. The NDC Board of Trustees secured agreements with nine partner colleges and universities to help current NDC students in good standing continue their college careers through a Teach-Out program or as a transfer student.
The Change Leader, Inc.
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Career Integration: Understand how to connect liberal arts education with concrete career pathways. Higher ed enrollment crisis explained through Varying Degrees 2024 survey data. . ✓ Value Communication: Master strategies to effectively convey education's worth to students and families.
University Business
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
College closures steamed through 2024 , and more institutions may find themselves in the crosshairs next year as declining numbers of K12 students trickle into higher ed. However, one private liberal arts school has transformed its enrollment strategy by bucking its traditional paradigm.
University Business
DECEMBER 17, 2024
Whether it was news of a recent college closure or a forecast of the severity of the demographic cliff, the most popular stories of 2024 centered on the changing makeup of higher education institutions. Here are the 10 most popular stories from University Business’ website for 2024: 1. Read the story. Read the story.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 29, 2024
A Clash Over Core Curriculum at New College of Florida Josh Moody Tue, 10/29/2024 - 03:00 AM Faculty say administrators at the public liberal arts institution are changing core course offerings in a way that is ideologically driven and harmful to students. Byline(s) Josh Moody
Edu Alliance Journal
APRIL 21, 2025
Background Founded in 1837 by Presbyterian leaders, Davidson College is a private liberal arts college located in Davidson, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte. Curricula Davidson College offers a broad and rigorous liberal arts education, exclusively focused on undergraduate learning. Why is Davidson Important?
The PIE News
MARCH 12, 2025
Moreover, Bangladeshi students enrolled in US institutions increased to 17,000 in 2023/24, a whopping 26% rise from the previous academic year, according to the 2024 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. “UK continued to be at number three or four on the preference list of Bangladeshi students.
Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 3, 2024
The Many Lives of Saint Joseph’s Sara Weissman Tue, 09/03/2024 - 03:00 AM After losing accreditation, the Catholic liberal arts college remade itself as a purveyor of workforce training programs. Not everyone is happy about the shift. Byline(s) Sara Weissman
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
Inside Higher Ed
MAY 30, 2024
Northeastern Expands With Marymount Manhattan Merger Josh Moody Thu, 05/30/2024 - 03:00 AM The Boston-based institution will absorb the small, liberal-arts college, adding a 14th campus to its global system and establishing its first site in New York City. Byline(s) Josh Moody
University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
With just nine majors in the 2024-25 school year, it cut over 75% of its majors, reduced enrollment to 350 students and let go of staff to raise revenue. The college closings and mergers of 2024 A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down.
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. in the fall and 620.33
Edu Alliance Journal
APRIL 14, 2025
Established initially as the Tuskegee Normal School for training Black teachers, it evolved into Tuskegee Institute and eventually a university known for blending liberal arts, technical, and professional education. The university balances a liberal arts foundation with strong STEM and professional programs.
Edu Alliance Journal
MARCH 17, 2025
Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Curricula Whitman College offers over 45 majors and numerous minors spanning the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Enrollment Trends As of Fall 2024, Whitman enrollment is 1,561 students.
University Business
APRIL 18, 2025
She has served in the interim since July 2024. Kalamazoo College President Jorge Gonzalez is retiring after serving at the top post of the liberal arts institution for 10 years. The private liberal arts institution has not shared why, citing employee privacy rights, and has already chosen an interim leader.
University Business
APRIL 2, 2025
With just nine majors in the 2024-25 school year, it cut over 75% of its majors, reduced enrollment to 350 students and let go of staff to raise revenue. The college closings and mergers of 2024 A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down.
Campus Sonar
JANUARY 24, 2024
Our 2024 kicked off with a trip to sunny Florida for the Council of Independent Colleges Presidents Institute. We’re sharing four challenges that will shape the 2024 higher ed landscape. At CIC, we saw the need for liberal arts colleges (LACs) to amplify the value of liberal arts in career preparation and shaping society.
University Business
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Most popular stories: Here is UBs top 10 for 2024 The top administration will do nothing to offend the politically appointed board of regents in my state, said one University of Georgia professor. A quarter (28%) didn’t believe their administration would defend a speaker if a controversy over offensive speech emerged.
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
The 2024 U.S. It was joint 17th in 2024’s roster. The separated categories are when schools are considered as National Universities, Liberal Arts Colleges, Regional Universities and Regional Colleges. News & World Report rankings. News rankings is not reflected in the QS ranking.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Detecting Changes in Developing Fires and Posed Risk” – funded through June 2024 – aims to better understand human perception of budding fires, interpretation of inherent risks, and responses elicited. College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State is the principal investigator, and Dr. James A. Gilliam, Jr.
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.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 30, 2024
TRHT Campus Centers comprise community colleges, liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, faith-based institutions, and large research universities. AAC&U is accepting applications for the 2024 institute , held virtually June 25-28.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 10, 2024
Since his two-year appointment as interim president began on June 1, 2024, Nunes has immersed himself in the life of the university. There is a Lutheran liberal arts tradition that places an emphasis on critical thinking, challenging assumptions and inclusion,” Nunes says. “I from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 23, 2024
Livingstone — a private historically Black college — provides business, liberal arts, STEAM, teacher education, and workforce development programs for students from all ethnic backgrounds. Livingstone College The gift is the fourth consecutive donation at the $1 million level to the college from an anonymous donor.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 8, 2024
Too often, I hear conversations debating the importance of liberal arts education compared to the value of workforce development. As of May 2024, the U.S. Truth be told, they are both equally important and critical to addressing America’s workforce shortage. Chamber of Commerce reported that the U.S.
The PIE News
NOVEMBER 21, 2023
In particular liberal arts colleges and second-tier US state universities will be under particular pressure. We have six of these partnerships under development, with most planning to launch in September 2024. All the above means the US universities are going to need innovate to survive.
Insight Into Diversity
JANUARY 31, 2023
DeSantis, a potential candidate for the 2024 presidential election, said he will also change tenure and hiring policies, allowing institutions to conduct post-tenure reviews on faculty at any time and giving university presidents and board of trustees more authority in hiring decisions.
The PIE News
SEPTEMBER 17, 2024
Over 140,000 study visas were issued to US-bound Indian students in 2023, with the number expected to rise in 2024. Moreover, with many Indian students still preferring the US as their study destination, India has surpassed China as the number one source for international students for the North American country.
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. He currently serves as the CEO of True Empowering LLC, a communications company.
University Business
JUNE 11, 2024
The FAFSA fiasco of 2024 is a national emergency that has impacted states, campuses and families alike. With these grants, we can offer a high-quality liberal arts education at a minimal cost to bright and dedicated students who otherwise could not afford to attend. It is also a crisis of our own making.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 30, 2024
The role of student choice must also be considered regarding misalignment, said Mabel, as well as the workforce outcomes of the students who intend to transfer to a four-year institution and take general studies, humanities, or liberal arts courses.
University Business
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. After that, it plans to keep tuition around $32,000.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 25, 2024
years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. By 2021, people didn’t know [the Student Art Gallery] was named for her,” said Beauboeuf-Lafontant, who added that former student, Feven Getachew, committed herself to rededicating the space and getting a new plaque erected.
University Business
JUNE 4, 2024
AAUP has been a vocal critic of Florida’s legislation to muzzle instruction around CRT and has detailed what it believes is a descent into authoritarian control following its government’s takeover of a small liberal arts college.
Economics and Change in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, a small Catholic institution in New Hampshire, will close at the end of the academic year due to low enrollment and financial challenges, WMUR 9 reported. The local ABC affiliate reported that Magdalen currently enrolls about 60 students.
The PIE News
AUGUST 18, 2023
On study abroad, the survey found that interest in travel is on the rise, with more than 60% expecting to send more students overseas in 2023 and early 2024, when compared with the previous year. Western Europe and Asia saw the largest interest level increases, with 52% and 43% of respondents seeing rises, respectively.
University Business
OCTOBER 17, 2024
College closures are showing no sign of slowing down in 2024 following a report from Implan, an economic software and analysis company, that revealed at least 20 colleges have shuttered so far this year. Located just 60 miles from Talladega, the private liberal arts school shuttered its doors in May.
University Business
JANUARY 10, 2023
Woo, Sweet Briar’s 13th president, announced this week that she will resign at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year after leading the rural Virginia women’s college for seven years. The college is also touting its designation as one of the nation’s “Most Innovative Liberal Arts Colleges” by U.S.
University Business
OCTOBER 2, 2023
” More from UB: Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education? . “If used appropriately, AI can do some of the things we pay college consultants to do.”
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