Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Officials at Oxford College of Emory University, one of the university’s two liberal arts colleges, in 2019 identified a need for a more positive campus climate. Training materials at the ACS for faculty advisers feature the principles and emphasize support and resources for 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. from Oklahoma State University, both in English literature. To me, it felt bigger.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday Dr. Yolanda Vivian Williams-Goliday’s first priority is to make sure that the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a supportive and inclusive space for its LGBTQ+, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary community. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Yet efforts to improve transfer among policy makers, funders and institutional leaders overwhelmingly focus on the transitions between two- and four-year institutions in the public sector and overlook the important role of independent not-for-profit colleges and universities, which now enroll almost 20 percent of community college transfer students.

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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. Arizona State University has partnered with Long Beach City College (LBCC) in Long Beach, California. appeared first on University Business.

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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

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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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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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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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

Add two decades of academic leadership at Baylor University and nearly ten years at the helm of Furman University and the president is a well-oiled machine. 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.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida. Canton accepted the position of director of the African American studies program at the University of Florida (UF). There will be a university meeting in January to review the proposal. “We

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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. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

Most college or university presidents to have recently taken the helm might have had a grasp of their job expectations before the turn of the decade—or even when the pandemic went into full swing. No cohort of presidents might be more familiar with this than those leading small private colleges or universities in the Northeast.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status. His background shaped his belief that universities must better prepare students for real-world workforce demands while preserving the values of liberal arts education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Finney, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education. percent increase over fall 2021 and a healthy jump from the 2.24 million who enrolled in fall 2020, soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began. percent and 0.2

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation We are always eager to hear new ways universities are creating affordable online programs at scale. These two leaders from Georgetown University and Coursera recently announced a new online bachelor’s completion program. Is this a model that you would encourage other university leaders to replicate?

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. Davis , Vice Chancellor, Student Affairs at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Intensive English programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. But four-year public universities’ undergraduate enrollment fell by 0.9

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: An English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University said his teaching contract has been put on hold after complaints about his instruction on race and racism. 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.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2023

The notion that the nation’s colleges and universities are failing to prepare their students for the world of work appears to no longer be a matter of debate: it has become conventional wisdom. Toward a Classroom-Centered Transformation. It is time for a new approach.

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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. I mean that quite literally…” the university stated on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Morgan State University, an HBCU in Maryland, has built an entire school within itself dedicated to bringing back working adults with some college but no degree. That can certainly be true, but Morgan State has found that liberal arts degrees can hold real appeal, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

granting universities. The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 universities , the effects of which are apparent in the decline in new assistant professorships in 2020 seen in our data.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

As declining public trust in higher education continues to grow, colleges and universities must confront perception head-on. Despite the fact that many community colleges and regional public institutions are relatively affordable, the public narrative is dominated by sticker shock from elite universities. Make value transparent.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The drop led to financial difficulties, which were exacerbated by VLS’s independent status, meaning it was not backed by a larger university or system that might help cover costs. It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. Smolla believes that trajectory is changing.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., When she became president of Trinity in 1989, the university’s future seemed dire. and Canada.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Rescuing Waldorf University’s overwhelmed business affairs department from tracking countless purchases by 130 managers from more than 70 departments In prior years, Waldorf University relied on its parent company to manage procurement processes. All of this attributes to the number of late or missing AR/AP assets.

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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.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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. percent drop.

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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. As the Pitzer board interviewed search firms to administer the process, most of them “advised against” opening up the search, Brock said.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The demands placed on colleges and universities have evolved beyond providing a world-renowned education. Research by the Lumina Foundation found that providing advisers across academics, finances, mental health and other services is essential for the post-pandemic college cohort. .

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Image: A professor who accused Auburn University officials of retaliating against him for blowing the whistle on the athletics program intervening in academics prevailed in court last week—in part. While we disagree with the [trial’s] outcome, the university respects the judicial process.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 11, 2022

The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) is proud of our UIA Liaisons. Tim Renick , Executive Director of the National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at Georgia State University. Across the globe, a university degree is the great equalizer," says Dr. Renick. Thu, 08/11/2022 - 06:00. Student Success.

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