Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Further, most independent colleges offer a liberal arts 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. Pursuing statewide transfer pathways is also beneficial for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

“I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. It made her the first alumna to be president of the private women’s liberal arts college in its 130-year history.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In conversation, one advisor also shared how much empathy they had gained and how their academic advising of international students on campus will be positively impacted. This newfound confidence and firsthand knowledge will translate into more effective advising sessions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The money will mostly go toward staffing – directors, program managers, academic advisers, and peer mentors – and student resources, such as books, school supplies, and transportation, Wheelock said. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Findings from the Center for Community College Student Engagement’s (CCCSE) survey of nearly 9,000 students across 40 community colleges illustrate gaps in sufficient advising. Despite their distance, ASU is launching ASU Local at LBCC’s Liberal Arts Campus. Some colleges are committing to partnerships across state lines.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M. Virtually all institutions—certainly all liberal arts schools—have language in their mission statements about turning out critical thinkers and lifelong learners.   and Elizabeth W.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Data available on the website show that unlike most liberal arts colleges, Adrian’s enrollment has boomed, increasing from under 1,000 students in 2005 to roughly 1,900 today. “Small private liberal arts colleges aren’t for everybody, but they work really well for the kids that need them.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Strengthen advising and counseling by expanding opportunities for one-on-one interactions with designated professionals. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program. Offer specialized “Area of Study” orientations to entering students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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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University Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Since guiding the institution through the grips of the pandemic and navigating the liberal arts institution’s students and staff through new modes of learning and teaching, he’s finally returned to center. ALEX Advisers act as a librarian of sorts to whom students can reach out to find assistance.

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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. I use this model when I advise students.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

For example, and I am not making this up, one of the instructors told me that she had to advise her male students on how to pick a suit that didn’t look cheap. What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberal arts fields.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

In the business of running an entire liberal arts college in South Carolina, the most cherished metric to study Furman’s success is student satisfaction. “One of the other things that we know about higher ed is that advising is not done very well,” President Davis says. “What are students looking for?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Amy Kurfist, a higher education senior research adviser at Hanover Research, a market research firm, said that the shift could also indicate that the recruitment techniques colleges and universities adopted during the pandemic may be working. percent and 0.2 percent, respectively. percent.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It is incumbent upon us to address the need to meet this population of students where they are by changing the delivery model, cost and price structure, and to continue to evolve the curriculum to include both a core of liberal arts courses with professionally oriented concentrations.

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

The issue partly stems from ill-advised legislation, according to James Herbert of the University of New England in Maine. As result, the liberal arts college has rolled out FlightPath to build a strong support network around each of its students by pairing them with a success coach, a faculty advisor, a career coach and an alumni mentor.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Other schools have done something similar, but I was struck by the mix of forward-looking practices – prior learning assessment, online courses, personal advising – with a classic liberal arts degree program.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Real results: When MindMax implemented a personalized summer enrollment marketing strategy for a private liberal arts university, the summer enrollment outreach response increased from 17% to 43%, earning the university an additional $800,000.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

The issue can be a lack of a centralized, cross-departmental office that acts as a one-stop shop for all career-related issues on campus, limited coordination between career offices and other student-facing units like academic advising or student affairs, or both. Toward a Classroom-Centered Transformation. It is time for a new approach.

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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. The spokesperson told WPBF, “I’m advised we can not [ sic ] comment on a personnel matter.” “On Feb. We stepped back into the classroom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No He advised those schools to start exploring creative ways to survive sooner than Cazenovia did.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Miller believes private liberal arts colleges, as well as community colleges, are trying harder to recruit male students in particular, in part by offering more sports participation options. Roxanne Garza, a senior policy adviser for education with the advocacy organization UnidosUS, said the growth in enrollment is good.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring. Peter Lange is provost emeritus at Duke University and senior academic adviser at Academic Analytics Research Center. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. ” Gross, who is also a former senior policy adviser to the U.S. “I think we’ve turned the corner,” Smolla said. “I’m very optimistic.” ” Small-College Blues in the Green Mountain State.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

The sad fact is that advising and career counseling resources on most campuses are grossly inadequate and that instruction in writing is insufficient. As Chamorro-Premuzic puts it succinctly, “If we want to retain an edge over machines, it is advisable that we avoid acting like one.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

It also requires changes in advising, program design, and student communicationsall of which fall under the broader scope of change management in higher ed settings. Drumm McNaughton: Well, you’re part of that 1% that many folks say has been able to leverage a liberal arts background. Drumm McNaughton: Oh, they do.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

“It’s something I hear about from almost every community college president I talk to as a problem one way or another right now,” said Nate Johnson, founder and principal consultant at Postsecondary Analytics, a firm that advises states, foundations and businesses on education and workforce policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

McGuire was referring to the many changes the university, which was founded as a liberal arts college for women 125 years ago, has undergone in recent decades. “In fact, we are something of a unicorn, being still primarily a women’s college,” she said.

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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. UATX’s board of advisers includes former New York Times columnist Bari Weiss, former Harvard University president Lawrence H.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

As the Pitzer board interviewed search firms to administer the process, most of them “advised against” opening up the search, Brock said. Ultimately, though, “if you want to be president of a liberal arts college, you’ve got to be able to deal with cantankerous faculty members.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 6: An education that provides more mentoring, more proactive academic and nonacademic advising and support and that embeds students in a learning community or cohort to promote a sense of belonging and connection. These cohort programs, too, can be directed by staff who can provide dedicated advising and mentoring.

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Campus Sonar

APRIL 17, 2024

Prioritize Preparation Campuses are home to hard working, caring employees who are going above and beyond to support their students through academic and career advising, retention efforts, health and wellness, and other aspects of campus life. Make sure you read the other two recommendations we shared.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. AAC&U continuously publishes material that explores and solidifies the connections between what employers are looking for and the role of strong liberal arts education.

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