Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race. But they never came.

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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. Why is that?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, if we adopt a more restrictive definition of the humanities, only 4 percent of college graduates in 2020 majored in traditional humanistic fields, including English, history, philosophy and foreign languages and literature. Tavárez is assistant professor of history at Queens College of the City University of New York.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Projecting ahead at these rates of change, the percentage of underrepresented tenure-line faculty at liberal arts colleges in 2060 would be 19 percentage points behind the general population, compared to a gap of 22 percentage points across institutions studied.

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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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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. His articles on a wide variety of subjects—18th-century British literature, C.S. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A review of that history can help us reassess that relationship. We know, for example, that architecture majors get more homework than marketing majors, and that students at small liberal arts colleges tend to study more than peers at large institutions. Altschuler Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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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. ” Unique Challenges. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. “I think we’ve turned the corner,” Smolla said. “I’m very optimistic.” Joseph and Southern Vermont College.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance. Yes In-Article Careers: 6

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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. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 It’s adding them July 1.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

**Editors note: A previous version of this post included a section with references to a news release and two news articles, on the University System of New Hampshire and a previously proposed plan to combine with additional institutions. The state did not move forward with that plan and there are no related plans being discussed now.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

He teaches African American studies and history, among other courses. Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12 Include DNU?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But when an eminent scholar whose books and articles I admire and who currently directs a program on politics and statesmanship at Princeton questions the worth of a four-year program, I must ask, why? and continental European model, in which the liberal arts portion of a college education takes place in high school.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

But such spaces remain rare, generally found only at private, progressive liberal arts colleges. Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St. Over the past 10 months, a number of U.S. Joseph University , a Catholic institution of about 2,000 students in Cincinnati.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. Currently, the conversation is continuing in the Department of History, the home department for the degree,” University of Central Arkansas spokeswoman Fredricka Sharkey said in an email. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. The grant of the MA has undergone changes.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

As the only full-time art faculty at the college, much of this work fell to me, Nate Wilson, Fine Arts Instructor. While I’m mostly a studio arts guy, drawing, sculpture, painting, and the like, I do have some art history background, both in the classroom and taking students abroad to London.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. But of all the articles I recently read, two stand out, and both share a common theme: The power of purpose.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Michael Meranze, a professor of history at UCLA who has written about the strike, told Inside Higher Ed , “There is no question that the strike has had a real effect on instruction and thereby on the undergraduates. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bill Conley William Conley began his career in education as an AP History teacher and coach at Delbarton School, transitioning into higher education enrollment management in 1980. Bob, I, one of the things that I, you probably had read, Paul Tough, wrote a very interesting article in the, New York Times Magazine.

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CommCentered

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Many of these institutions share a common mission grounded in history, principles, and people. Catholic institutions benefit from the immersive and rich history of Catholic symbols that carry deep visual metaphors. History, legacy, honor…duration are all critically important characteristics to this segment of institutions.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?

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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. “It feels like a pretty normal year,” he says.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

” This document, a noteworthy publication in AGB’s 110-year history and only the 13th such statement, addresses crucial issues in contemporary educational governance. And I sit actually as a trustee on a small, liberal arts college halfway around the world called High Gaussian College. Good to see you. [00:31:52]

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

We co-authored an article together, and we ended up with this frame: the core of good leadership is getting grounded, getting real, and getting going. NU is designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and has a 50-year history of innovating around the needs of military, working, and other nontraditional students.

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