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

A lure for high-achieving, exceptionally motivated applicants who might otherwise attend a private institution, and a magnet for donor dollars. I think the answer is yes and, as we will see, this builds on the history of university honors, which has radically reworked its model over the past century. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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. Under Sánchez’s leadership, RIC’s endowment increased, federal and state grants rose significantly, and the institution achieved financial stability with a substantial student body, Patch reports.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We have launched new academic programs that are focused on regional needs and successfully achieved professional accreditations of nearly every program at the university (all those that have that option), to ensure the quality of the academic experience we offer. That’s fine and probably even a good idea.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We have launched new academic programs that are focused on regional needs and successfully achieved professional accreditations of nearly every program at the university (all those that have that option), to ensure the quality of the academic experience we offer. That’s fine and probably even a good idea.

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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. Yet few secular institutions strive to actually achieve those objectives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

If Dr. Valerie Kinloch could tell her teenage self anything, she’d say “Girl, stop doubting yourself and do not listen to anyone who tells you that you cannot achieve your dreams and goals.” She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Work Zones The MCSS, along with various state and national partners, is currently leading three initiatives focused on improving transfer: Strengthening MiHumanities , Strengthening MiWorkforce Pathways and Liberal Arts Pathways From Community Colleges to Independent Institutions.

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University Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

In just two years at the helm of Allegheny College, President Ron Cole has accomplished what many would try to achieve in a decade. Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. Liberal Arts Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education , edited by J. Zakaria, Fareed: In Defense of a Liberal Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching? She is the author of two important books on the history of immigration and childhood, The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 and Suffer the Little Children , a history of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St. If I want to achieve something, I just need to work and study," he said. Over the past 10 months, a number of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Still, most comments acknowledge that meaning and purpose are essential attributes of a good life, even if many slighted the essay for failing to specify (apart from military service) what that purpose or calling might be or how the larger society or culture can help men achieve that goal. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Campuses find it extremely difficult to achieve a consensus about essential undergraduate learning outcomes or how to agree about how to measure whether students actually achieve these objectives. I may be old-fashioned, but what I consider essential to a liberal arts education is the interaction with a scholar and with classmates.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Some of these overreaches have been in response to faculty serving as expert witness in court cases in which their testimony was unfavorable to the state’s position; some are battles over ideology; some are acts of political theatre; and some are attempts to whitewash history. This includes the literature, music, and art we teach and study.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 30, 2022

As we welcomed you on August 23 rd 2018, I spoke about our academic theme of Resilience stating: The Liberal Arts provide us with an array of viewpoints and historical perspectives so we can better contextualize and understand the challenges we encounter in our lives. 2] Niebuhr, Reinhold: The Irony of American History.

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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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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

As many of you already know, Susquehanna’s mission statement is: We educate students for productive, creative, and reflective lives of achievement, leadership, and service in a diverse, dynamic, and interdependent world. This is what is means to achieve, lead, and serve. This is what we are called to do. Welcome home! [1]

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. This broader view of the public good aligns education more closely with the needs of society and the job market.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

One solution to rising tuition costs would be that a large consortium of schools, e.g., PAC-12 schools or all Midwest liberal arts schools that happen to compete with one another, should announce they are not going to raise tuition by more than inflation each year for the next ten years. The main focus now is career readiness.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

This holistic approach encompasses marketing, recruitment, admissions, and retention strategies, all aimed at achieving optimal enrollment and graduation rates. You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

He, like me, attended a liberal arts college, and that was truly a magical time. He was on campus when the Ohio national guard shot and killed the four students at Kent State, leading to the first and only nationwide student strike in American history. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

In their best times, they have borne a commitment to ecumenicalism, and each has a rich history of scholarship and teaching. As a modern liberal-arts university, Susquehanna’s culture has been shaped by its Lutheran Heritage in important ways. For centuries, faith and reason have met in the world’s great universities.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

The word is derived from bacca lauri meaning laurel berry, referring to laurel wreaths placed upon the heads of individuals honored for their achievement in ancient times. Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

She is the first woman to achieve this position in the university’s 100-year history. Kirk has a longstanding history with Concordia, which is her alma mater. Another accomplishment for the history books is the university’s first increase in enrollment in a decade this fall.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

You test, try, tune, collaborate, pull ideas together, and work towards achieving those mission and vision elements. NU is designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and has a 50-year history of innovating around the needs of military, working, and other nontraditional students. Then you get going. I love that frame.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So I guess that just means, we’ve had a history of,when we have problems, we just need to crack on and solve them because if we wait for other people to help the problem will have overtaken us. Just because of the function of time zones, we’re literally when we are up. And of course the reverse is also true.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

“We look at our history. ’ History can be a model, and it can repeat itself.” Like many presidents of private liberal arts colleges, Link is working with faculty on curating a space where students feel safe and comfortable to exchange potentially contentious dialogue. We look to our values.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

2 August · Episode 166 ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech 42 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Higher ed leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability can emulate the actions of Illinois Tech's ELEVATE program. We were required to take a lot of liberal arts courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. ” In his words: the proposed model “will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.”

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

But history without theory is thin gruel, and social scientists like Brint and Labaree play a crucial role in identifying the conceptual issues that their historian counterparts at times downplay. Let’s begin with the history of American higher education. As Professor Labaree makes clear, this history is highly distinctive.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. After all, a true college education isn’t simply about cognitive development and skills training. It should also educate the senses and sensibilities. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today’s young people achieve the markers of full adulthood much later than in the recent past. Sweeping survey courses on such topics as big history (the sweeping history of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity), ethics, religion, cognitive distortions, social science methods and thinking, and world art, literature, or music.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Achieve, Lead, Vote I have written a number of times about the roles many of our Founding Fathers played in establishing and cultivating higher-education institutions, especially liberal-arts colleges. They believed that for a democratic republic to succeed, and ideally flourish, an informed electorate was a necessity.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Inquiring minds would like to know.

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