Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Under his leadership, Augusta Tech achieved record enrollment this past fall through strategic program revamps, the establishment of new academic schools, and successful fundraising initiatives that brought renewed vitality to the predominantly Black institution.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

A case study for small liberal arts colleges This really hit home for me earlier this year when I was invited to represent the university that I work for at the inauguration of a new president at my alma mater, West Virginia Wesleyan College. In almost of these cases, the person was a flop and did not last long in the position.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A liberal arts and sciences college from New York has pledged to support 425 refugee and displaced students in the next four years as the UN seeks to reach its 15by30 target. The 15by30 commitment from the intergovernmental peace organisation is aiming to get 15% of young refugees enrolled in higher education by the year 2030.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Under the new partnership, Deakin will offer a dual degree and an accelerated master’s program with Symbiosis in the areas of business administration & analytics and liberal arts. ” The partnership with Deakin has offered Symbiosis students opportunities in global learning, skilling and research, Majumdar continued.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Additionally, her local roots will help us achieve the vision of being a community advancing health, safety, and innovation.”

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Students from the recently embattled liberal arts school are preparing for an alternative commencement this year, a “Commencement On Our Terms," given the conservative shift of the school set into motion by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The graduates will celebrate in a private gathering at an undisclosed location in downtown Sarasota.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Further, most independent colleges offer a liberal arts education, which recent scholarship has indicated to be associated with increased well-being and participation in civic life as well as improved long-term financial outcomes. In order to achieve this trifecta, facilitation by state associations of independent colleges is key.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Additionally, her local roots will help us achieve the vision of being a community advancing health, safety, and innovation.”

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MindMax

MAY 20, 2024

There was a great opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed recently calling on Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California to intentionally create small public liberal arts colleges alongside the many existing large ones. Without such standards, the landscape becomes too ambiguous.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

“Fortunately, the available evidence offers hope for achieving faculty parity in our lifetime. At this rate, the paper says, “higher education will never achieve demographic parity among tenure-track faculty.” The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Tuition Match” is open to any Columbus State student who has earned an associate degree, as long as the student has achieved a grade point average of at least 3.5 and is in good academic standing with no disciplinary violations.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 30, 2024

For example, keywords like “best nursing programs in Ontario” or “liberal arts colleges with study abroad options” are more likely to attract students who are already well-informed in their decision-making process. Do optimize your campaigns by focusing on long-tail keywords that match the unique aspects of your school’s programs.

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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.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

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. “It’s a tremendous honor for Laurie, and it reflects well on Middlebury that she’s achieved this honor.” Laurie Patton – Middlebury College (Vt.)

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Spelman also became the top HBCU for social mobility this year, while remaining among the top 40 Best National Liberal Arts colleges. The college maintains its forefront position with a 68% graduation rate — the highest in the country among HBCUs. “We are honored to be recognized among the nation’s top colleges by U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Virtually all institutions—certainly all liberal arts schools—have language in their mission statements about turning out critical thinkers and lifelong learners.   A: Of course, student success means many different things: achieving learning outcomes, persistence to graduation, career success postgraduation and so on.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

First-generation students and those from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds are given priority in the application process for the five-week summer program at Vassar, a private liberal arts institution in New York state.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“She has a deep familiarity both with NYU’s great strengths and with those areas that need additional attention, support and investment for NYU to achieve the next level of excellence. She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Many colleges now include career interest inventories in new student orientation and/or college success classes, on the (correct) theory that students who know their goals are more likely to stick around long enough to achieve them. What they don’t know is that the skills developed in liberal arts classes can make the difference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. As such, credits from Massasoit’s Black Studies courses count toward liberal arts and humanities elective requirements aligned with most of the school’s degrees and will factor into transfer credit to four-year colleges, she says.

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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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

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. “That doesn’t mean that you’re moving away from educating people to achieve those values and skills.”

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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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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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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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

News did not attribute the movement solely to achievement by students from all backgrounds but the publication is acknowledging “opposition” to its rankings. “By The University of Pennsylvania also fell four spots to No. 10 and there was a four-way tie at No.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

Drumm McNaughton: Well, you’re part of that 1% that many folks say has been able to leverage a liberal arts background. Right, because most people with a liberal arts background do very well long term, so. I think you’ve done it very well. I’m being facetious, but… Courtney Brown: Right.

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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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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 4, 2024

Start by setting SMART goals — specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound — that align with your institution’s broader objectives. LinkedIn LinkedIn is ideal for showcasing the institutional achievements, examples of academic excellence, and faculty accomplishments of your university.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

“In the past year, higher ed has dealt with tone-deaf college presidents, threats from Project 2025 , the defunding of DEI offices and the unpredictable politics of student loan forgiveness,” Paul Glastris, editor in chief of Washington Monthly , said in a press release.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He has traveled widely and was awarded a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in 1996. Each chapter begins with a short introductory essay providing historical context for that period of history. He earned a Ph.D.

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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. These colleges also demonstrate that public universities can provide an education of the highest quality at a fraction of the price of a liberal arts college.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

Within each category, it calculates the sum of weighted, normalized values across 17 indicators of academic quality to determine each school’s overall score and, ultimately, ranking: National Universities National Liberal Arts Colleges Regional Universities (North, South, Midwest, and West) Regional Colleges (North, South, Midwest, and West) U.S.

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