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Vassar connects two-year colleges and liberal arts colleges

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.

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Marymount Eliminates Liberal Arts Degrees

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The board of Marymount University, in Virginia, voted unanimously to eliminate 10 programs, mostly in the liberal arts, on Friday. The vote eliminated majors in art, economics, English, history, mathematics, philosophy, secondary education, sociology, and theology and religious studies, and an M.A. in English and humanities.

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Marymount Plans to Cut Many Liberal Arts Programs

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Marymount University, in Virginia, is planning to cut many of its liberal arts programs, citing low enrollments, ARLnow reported. ” Ad keywords: administrators executive faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Hide by line?: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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A Clash Over Core Curriculum at New College of Florida

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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

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. The key is to paint a sharper picture of the enormous benefits that liberal arts actually deliver.

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The value for students of requiring a liberal arts capstone (opinion)

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Manhattanville College’s Administration Tries to Save School.by Removing its Heart (Bob Frank)

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During the past two years, administrators at storied Manhattanville College have removed 46 full-time faculty--by paying then to retire or laying them off. Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. The Manhattanville faculty is the heart of the institution.