Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. Spurred on by this interest in universities’ inner workings, Allen went on to eventually lead in an administrative capacity as senior vice president and provost at Widener University before returning to Meredith as its leader in July 2011.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The gift to the McPherson College endowment— announced Friday —is believed to be the largest gift to a small liberal arts college in history, according to the college. Ad keywords: administrators executive Editorial Tags: Fund-Raising Fund-Raising/Development Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As a student activist, a longtime faculty member, and an administrator in higher education, I am particularly proud of two career accomplishments. One was fifty years ago at Earlham , a small Quaker liberal arts college, where I helped repurpose a college-owned house into a Black culture center.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

“There are challenges facing higher education institutions, particularly smaller liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, from which SFC is not immune. The 164-year-old college, which offers 21 varsity programs across 10 different NCAA sports, has an especially long history in college basketball, dating back to 1901.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs. She is the first Black female president in the school’s 186-year history.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. 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. Cloud State University, MPR News reports.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. Aside from enrollment challenges, administrators cited inflation and a “significant drop” in fundraising. The university was 126 years old.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computer science, and criminal justice. However, when the world attacks “liberal arts” they tend to point to specific disciplines as no longer relevant or meaningful.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computer science, and criminal justice. However, when the world attacks “liberal arts” they tend to point to specific disciplines as no longer relevant or meaningful.

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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. And so on … The other thing that keeps me up at night is that recurring dream where I need to take the final for a history class I didn’t realize I was registered for. I’ll be forever grateful for those days.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The weekly newspaper format has been largely replaced by a daily e-newsletter with feature stories ranging from current news stories from the academy to annual higher-ed almanac reports, to opinion pieces from faculty, administrators, and pundits. History Kimball, Bruce A.: Zakaria, Fareed: In Defense of a Liberal Education.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

in educational administration (higher education leadership) from Indiana State University; a Master of Liberal Arts in African American studies from Temple; a Master of Science in Education in educational psychology and guidance (college student personnel) from EIU; a B.A. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Gustafson served in faculty and administration at Presbyterian for nearly two decades before departing to Mercer University (Ga.) Bollinger, according to Kenyon College press release.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately. We made that decision believing that our values were clear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. Dr. Anita Bledsoe-Gardner, JCSU’s dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Board of Trustees member, describes Kinloch as a visionary, referencing her plans to extend JCSU’s global reach.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

“Others that have a long history—or even a short history—but don’t have that specific attention tend to maintain just a steady state.” ” Feasel’s experience as a higher education administrator is deeply rooted in SUA’s mission to develop global citizens.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

.” Teacher efficacy will increase The advent of AI will allow teachers to offload mundane administrative tasks to students and provide them more energy to be at the “heart and soul” of the classroom.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., Students obtain essential networking and community-building skills while developing a sense of leadership that is not informed by “heteronormative and cisnormative practices,” says John Weinstein, PhD, the college’s provost and vice president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

Patrick Biddix, professor and program coordinator of the Higher Education Administration Ph.D. HBCUs come with a tremendous amount of history. By the middle of the 20th century, KC had become a liberal arts institution with a reputation for organizing social justice movements like sit-ins.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

“The hollowing out of administrative and professional staff, and the dismissal and erasure of colleagues, institutional experience and real community, have created a culture of fear and distrust and are harming the college. Administrative discourse often appears devoid of substance, lacks respect for previous efforts, (e.g.,

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

When the Waldorf Foundation purchased the private liberal arts school in December 2022, the Business Affairs department was tasked with managing procurement themselves which involved a steep learning curve. For instance, Academics is a group and each individual department is a subgroup, such as “education” and “history.”

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. Administrators chose Parwinder Grewal in July of 2022 to oversee the revamp and hopefully return the merged institution to financial stability. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately. We stepped back into the classroom. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Nor am I referring to the wealthiest institutions’ lavish amenities and outrageous administrative salaries, though I do feel that those salaries and the size of the administrative staff are unconscionable at a nonprofit campus. Such an argument, the authors show, is grossly exaggerated. Over time, as Howard R.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance. ” When Belmont administrators were developing the job description for the new position, L.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., ” Mattie Hawkins, an administrative assistant in the School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences who’s worked at Meredith for 17 years, is traveling to Sansepolcro in May with her husband.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. Television news outlet THV11 reported that faculty members and others wrote a letter to administrators in support of keeping the program, the only such stand-alone bachelor’s degree program in the state.

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