Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Job Tags: FACULTY JOBS Ad keywords: faculty Editorial Tags: Liberal arts Show on Jobs site: Image Source: Pawel Piotr/istock/getty images plus Image Size: Thumbnail-horizontal Is this diversity newsletter?: Yes In-Article Careers: 3 The only remaining question: What to do now? Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

A case study for small liberal arts colleges This really hit home for me earlier this year when I was invited to represent the university that I work for at the inauguration of a new president at my alma mater, West Virginia Wesleyan College. The news has not been good. percent between 2015 and 2019.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Administrators and faculty members should understand the math needs of different academic programs, acknowledge the reality of the students’ levels of math preparation and find ways to teach them from there. Math for Liberal Arts is a college-level course designed for non-STEM students to appreciate math.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The institutions share classes, faculty members, administrators and governing board members. He said faculty voted against nixing the language, Asian studies and peace studies minors, “but when the board looked at that, they did not see those as sustainable.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In what faculty leaders and board members there agree was a too-rare triumph for shared governance these days, the independent California college gave its entire full-time faculty and representative groups of staff members and students the opportunity to meet with three finalists and weigh in on the final choice.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

But they should do so early, and the process should be iterative, with faculty playing a big role. “If we introduced a set of basic critical thinking skills to students early in their first year, faculty would be able to refer back to them in subsequent courses. What do you mean by that? Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Villanova has hosted other boot camps for hard-to-break-into careers, like consulting, or for students looking to translate their major skills into a field, like liberal arts or science students interested in financial services, Grubb says. No In-Article Careers: 3

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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. Faculty, staff and students provided input to develop definitions of each principle, with the initial focus as a student-facing initiative. Share here.

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ACRLog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Their role includes collection development, teaching information literacy, and providing reference services for faculty, students, and staff. I am writing this article in the midst of a major life transition. They are the liaison librarian for Religion, English, Catholic Studies, Theatre & Drama, and Peace & Conflict Studies.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Some faculty members fear Rize’s creep into the college’s general education courses and worry that it poses a threat to their jobs; Docking denies any possibility of a conflict of interest. Some faculty members said the experiment generated excitement and boosted revenue, though both have fallen off in recent years.

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MindMax

MAY 20, 2024

There was a great opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed recently calling on Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California to intentionally create small public liberal arts colleges alongside the many existing large ones. The line that stood out the most to me is the one about public education meeting the needs of today’s students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

“A reader alerted the editor-in-chief that there were concerns regarding some of the data,” the four-paragraph note on the article says. In particular, the article’s authors had written that 68 percent of gay men they surveyed identified as such after being molested, and the lead author’s dissertation also said this.

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Campus Sonar

MARCH 5, 2025

Thorndike of Columbia University Teachers College, identified it as one of three types of intelligence in his 1920 Harpers Magazine article, Intelligence and Its Uses. Last month, I introduced social intelligence to a board of trustees of a small liberal arts college, focusing on its applications to advancement.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In particular liberal arts colleges and second-tier US state universities will be under particular pressure. About the author: This is a sponsored article by Charles Cormack. The next presidential election is less that 12 months away, and its outcome could have further significant ramifications for the HE sector.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

” From what we faculty see in the classroom and beyond, our students are engaged and ready to put theory into practice: we need only help them acquire the tools. Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 6 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. an increasingly popular tourist destination near the Grand Canyon, has repeatedly scared off faculty candidates for this position and others.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal. 2021–22 Median Salaries for Tenure-Track Faculty. Source: CUPA-HR 2021-22 Survey of Faculty in Higher Education. Discipline. Assistant Professor.

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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. An FAQ on working at the university says, “PBA does not offer tenure; all beginning faculty sign a one-year letter of agreement. “On Feb.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. They represent a pretty major transfer of power from faculty to administration over curricular matters.”

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

She has published articles in Harvard Law Review and Cornell Law Review, among others. She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs. Mills received her Ph.D. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University. Her presidency will officially begin July 1.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., is doing something else: offering faculty and staff members a low-cost Italian getaway. It also has connected employees, faculty and staff with colleagues on campus who they may not normally interact with. Some travel alone.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Emily Burke, senior director of workforce development and applied practice at ASPPH and another author of the study, said that focusing on public health at the undergraduate level is in some ways akin to pursuing the liberal arts. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Officials at Merrimack College note that the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic prompted faculty members to consider new approaches, which opened the door to pursuing a three-year degree program. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 “What attracted us to this was an invitation to try to build something new. ” Pasquerella said.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In higher education, many faculty report a decline in student focus and study skills, as well as patterns of poor attendance, late assignments and low grades. At the height of the pandemic, many faculty relaxed their expectations for the quantity and quality of student work. The commonplace assumption is that all stress is harmful.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution. We thank you for your support over the years.”

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bloomfield—a small private liberal arts college in Bloomfield, N.J., Like many small liberal arts colleges, Bloomfield has dealt with dwindling enrollment for years. One major question hinges on personnel: What will happen to Bloomfield faculty and staff? A Plea for Help. But there are also certain benefits.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. A new dean, Joseph Aistrup, was appointed.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., Because [our college] already [has] existing programs, we don’t have to start from zero.” ● This article was published in our October 2023 issue. How are each of those now designed with queer students at the center?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the wave of closures of small liberal arts colleges across the United States continues, merging with a larger institution is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative. The faculty hopes the new Bloomfield will continue our mission to serve first-generation and low-income students.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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