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Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberalarts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberalarts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.
She brings more than two decades of experience in higher education, having worked at both small liberalarts colleges and large research universities. Her career has been dedicated to fostering access and achievement for underrepresented students, particularly Indigenous and first-generation learners.
Williams credits her ability to pivot, her eagerness to study entirely new subjects, to her attendance at a small liberalarts college for her undergraduate degreeHampshire Collegein Amherst, Massachusetts. Now, public health is fully integrated into her research agenda. Williams has continued her work in HIV awareness and activism.
Notably, each of those courses takes a week out of the semester – often in March – to allow the private women's liberalarts college’s students to travel to destinations associated with their respective course, at no additional cost. “We And as a liberalarts college, we know we have a great academic curriculum.
Dr. Hasan Kwame Jeffries Dr. King's life and legacy are central to our mission at Morehouse College as a historically Black liberalarts institution, said Dr. Vicki Crawford, director of the Martin Luther King collection at Morehouse. Dr. King dedicated his life to achieving civil rights for all people.
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.
A case study for small liberalarts 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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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 liberalarts. ” The partnership with Deakin has offered Symbiosis students opportunities in global learning, skilling and research, Majumdar continued.
Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberalarts, 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.”
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.
TRHT Campus Centers comprise community colleges, liberalarts colleges, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, faith-based institutions, and large research universities.
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Further, most independent colleges offer a liberalarts 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.
Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberalarts, 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.”
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 liberalarts colleges alongside the many existing large ones. Without such standards, the landscape becomes too ambiguous.
“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 liberalarts colleges: an increase of 0.33
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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 liberalarts courses.
Lastly, the private liberalarts 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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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 liberalarts institution in New York state.
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“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 liberalarts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs.
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This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. As such, credits from Massasoit’s Black Studies courses count toward liberalarts and humanities elective requirements aligned with most of the school’s degrees and will factor into transfer credit to four-year colleges, she says.
Which leaves the liberalarts, 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 liberalarts shrink to an appropriate size?
And the methods it brings to achieve this are radically interdisciplinary, involving colleagues from across the full range of disciplines, including Psychiatry, Informatics, Law, Engineering, Business Studies, as well as Humanities and Social Sciences. This Institute asks, how can we live well with technology?
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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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 LiberalArts Pathways From Community Colleges to Independent Institutions.
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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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“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.
Duiker is LiberalArts 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.
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 liberalarts college.
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 LiberalArts Colleges Regional Universities (North, South, Midwest, and West) Regional Colleges (North, South, Midwest, and West) U.S.
This may explain why enrollment in liberalarts colleges has sharply declined over the same period as general enrollment in higher ed has. EAB believes that some of their most significant characteristics result from long-developing trends that the pandemic helped push to the forefront.
Phillips will be responsible for revamping Chatham’s academic program catalog specifically in health sciences and liberalarts. Avaltroni’s most notable achievements, however, are in his knack for student success and diversity, such as establishing a Hispanic center.
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