Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When the instructors of business or science courses cannot (or would rather not) deal with the students who do not know certain basic math, they send the students to a developmental math class and make it a prerequisite. For college algebra, the underprepared students must take a developmental course called Intermediate Algebra.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. Q: Your Ph.D. is in linguistics.

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

A review of the calibration of the scheme is a way to “avoid political traps now” and give parties maximum room for manoeuvre after the election, noted David Willetts, who was minister for universities and science from 2010 until 2014. “Higher education institutions across the UK are under financial strain.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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Today's Learner

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Zack shared that when he initially attended college, he found himself unsure of his path and dropped out to focus on work. Each talk delves into the unexpected twists and turns that shaped their paths, offering valuable insights and lessons for students as they think about their own future careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

On the opening day, academics shared findings on student success at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), while others tackled issues of pay inequity in internships. These values run contrary to systemic oppression. In order to enact human values, we have to start with ourselves. Critical self-reflection is a radical form of resistance.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image: In the perpetual tug-of-war between openness and confidentiality in searches for new college and university presidents, secrecy has been winning in a rout. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Barabino, president of the Olin College of Engineering. 10 online panel – hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) – invited a number of scholars in higher ed to weigh in on the potential and challenges that AI tools may bring to the field. ChatGPT launched in November of 2022,” Watson said.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 10, 2024

Department of Education recently awarded a five-year, $3 million grant to California State University, Northridge, to increase the participation of underrepresented students and address equity gaps in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and arts fields. Led by S.K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So the student pays the same tuition at the U of A that they did at the two-year college. Participating Colleges. University of Arkansas Community College at Batesville. University of Arkansas—Cossatot Community College. University of Arkansas Rich Mountain Community College. and $186.51 per credit hour.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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HEPI

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Where do they think some of the best vocational education occurs if not on degree programmes in higher education institutions – whether that is a university, FE college or independent provider? He notes courses like Forensics, Accounting and Hotel Management are available in many such universities: ‘Plato around a seminar table this ain’t.’

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The NASH Improvement Model embraces improvement science as its core methodology and has adjusted the approach to fit the needs of institutions of higher education, focused specifically on public higher education systems. Blog: Beyond Transfer The broken record of broken transfer seems to be on constant repeat in the higher education sector.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education. We have data from the U.S.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. John’s College in Maryland. And so we are building anew. Summers and playwright David Mamet.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The online Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies program pairs core courses in culture, humanities, natural sciences, philosophy, social sciences, and writing with five concentration options: Business and Entrepreneurship, Humanities, Professional Media and Communication, International Relations, and Individualized Study.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Some students and faculty members at historically Black Atlanta colleges and universities are speaking out against plans to build an 85-acre, $90 million police training facility nearby in forested land owned by the city. “This training needs space, and that’s exactly what this training center is going to offer.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The definition of a living-learning community is a dedicated number of beds that are contiguous to each other and have additional resources dedicated for the purpose of that community,” explains Kathy Bush-Hobgood, vice president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers. University of Minnesota at St.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

I have a list of failures ready to share: a calculus grade in college that sank my GPA, the publication rejections, and the dozens of jobs I applied to but never heard back from, and so do all of my colleagues. I say this in part because that mentality defined a lot of my college experience, and I don't want it to do the same for yours.

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University Business

JUNE 28, 2023

More from UB: How 2 college equity leaders advise navigating a changing climate amid backlash International applications and enrollment China and India remain as the two most significant countries whose students are applying for U.S. since being deferred by the pandemic in 2020. decrease in enrollment in fall 2022. While the U.S.

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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. He is co-editor of The Christian College Phenomenon: Inside America’s Fastest Growing Institutions of Higher Learning (2011). “On Feb.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With their mammoth lectures, terrible student-to-adviser ratios, heavy reliance on teaching assistants and postdocs, and priority placed on research and grant-getting, many would say that the answer is an unequivocal no, except for the small minority of students who are in honors colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It’s certainly true that college graduation rates have risen sharply in recent years even as student diversity has grown, suggesting that the purported crisis in student learning may be greatly exaggerated. Those comments deserve a detailed response. As some of my correspondents have pointed out: 1.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. Elevating Stories of the Unrecognized — Agnes Scott College. In July, Agnes Scott College launched the Acknowledging our Past: Acting Now for a Transformed Future project, which aims to elevate the lives and stories of the people of color who built the college.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

OCTOBER 6, 2022

When President LeBlanc began his first higher ed leadership position in 1996, the year of the dotcom boom, he saw a role for digital technology at Vermont's small, struggling Marlboro College. "I Let's open up something called the Marlboro College Grad Center.' Disruption, Evolution, and Leadership. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:00.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

UNT’s 100% online Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences (B.A.A.S.) program at UNT accepts traditional common core credits earned from community colleges (American history, political science, English, etc.) UNT is also recognized as a Best for Vets College and ranks 17th nationally as a Best College by Military Times.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. Currently, all the state’s community colleges and public universities, as well as 18 independent colleges and universities, participate in one or more of the pathways.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Summing up the latest Student Voice survey, which asked 2,000 college undergrads about their impressions and experiences within facilities as well as outdoors on campus, Medlin says, “They get aggravated and annoyed when things are not as they should be. Don’t give up that seat.” block:block=176].

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 17, 2024

The potential for online education at your institution — in signature areas like business, healthcare, data, and science — remains largely unexplored. Perhaps, historically, your institution has excelled at providing traditional, in-person programs across core academic areas. What Is Organizationational Development and Design?

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 17, 2024

In Campus Sonar’s latest industry trends report on “ Rebuilding Trust in Higher Ed ,” we explored the gap between trust and value to understand what audiences discuss about a college degree using social intelligence. Make sure you read the other two recommendations we shared. How is your campus preparing students for graduation and beyond?

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