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As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberalarts 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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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 LiberalArts Pathways From Community Colleges to Independent Institutions.
Pangloss, and I certainly don’t want to come across as a hopeless optimist, let alone as an uncritical promoter of the new technology. The sad fact is that advising and career counseling resources on most campuses are grossly inadequate and that instruction in writing is insufficient. As Claudia Golden and Lawrence F.
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 liberalarts courses with professionally oriented concentrations.
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Work-schedule flexibility: Making support services such as advising available to working students taking classes outside of normal business hours. Courses and programs: Integrating elements of career preparation and civic engagement into curricula without losing the liberalarts ethos.
” Oversight entities will consider program inputs such as experience and credentials of instructors, availability of academic and career advising services, and transferability of credits as part of the evaluation. “We have a little bit of time to figure out how that’s going to work.”
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The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberalarts 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 liberalarts of human teachers.”
A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberalarts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates. Get to know your students better.
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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 liberalarts certificate program. Offer specialized “Area of Study” orientations to entering students.
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