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HBCU among NAFSA award recipients

The PIE News

Also receiving the Spotlight Award was liberal arts institution Cedar Crest College , Pennsylvania, for its Carmen Twillie Ambar Sophomore Expedition. Congrats #AlbanyState for receiving the 2023 NAFSA Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award, for its Curriculum Internationalization initiative.

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Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., BQLP students gain a network of queer colleagues and mentors while also learning how to advocate for themselves and their community. is a unit of Bard College in New York and is designed as an early college program for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students.

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International access to more US institutions ‘must improve’

The PIE News

“We have remarkable institutions in every way, shape or form from the largest research ones all the way to these immaculate small, private liberal arts colleges that do such a wonderful job, but I’m not entirely sure that we do a good job as a nation in ensuring access to all of that opportunity.”

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President moves: Recent spate of leaders to announce retirement boast impressive résumés

University Business

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Cordon recently spent five years as the Young Women general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Mathematicians resume in-person meetings in trying times

Inside Higher Ed

Another mathematics professor at a liberal arts college who has served on the American Mathematical Society Council spoke on the condition of anonymity, as she was not authorized to speak in that capacity. This professor advocated for her math department to cancel its American Mathematical Society membership, and it agreed to do so.

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US institutions recalibrate internationalisation priorities post pandemic

The PIE News

The institution’s Internationalisation Lab subcommittees include focus on International Recruitment & Retention, Education Abroad, International Research, Scholarship, & Partnerships, Curriculum & Co-curriculum and Faculty & Staff Support. International recruitment.

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Women's colleges work to maintain their mission

Inside Higher Ed

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. ’” Chavez said.

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