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Informational Holism: Humanities librarianship, liberal arts, and the limitations of quantitative metrics

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Benjamin Dueck is a General Librarian in the Arts & Humanities Division at The University of Manitoba Libraries. Earlier this month, I began working as a full-time Humanities Liaison Librarian at the University of Manitoba. The future of humanities librarianship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

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Midtier: Broad-Access Universities Are the Key to Increasing Educational Opportunity

Inside Higher Ed

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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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

Stepped-up advising, more aggressive interventions and academic and financial supports have made a genuine difference. Money that could be used to build better connections to employers, add more advisers or cut tuition is instead spent on the same trappings as research universities.” But much more needs to be done.

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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

Inside Higher Ed

The anonymous professor said the president has done exactly that through a past layoff attempt that was only reversed after alumni pressured the university to keep threatened positions in the humanities.). “Small private liberal arts colleges aren’t for everybody, but they work really well for the kids that need them.

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Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In: Changing Higher Ed podcast 257 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Andrew Hsu

The Change Leader, Inc.

His background shaped his belief that universities must better prepare students for real-world workforce demands while preserving the values of liberal arts education. It prides itself in its liberal arts tradition, and it does have a very strong liberal arts tradition. Drumm McNaughton: Is that really?