MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

I came across an interesting article recently that suggests higher ed has forgotten its aim. Steven Mintz, author and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, posits that higher ed has strayed too far from its traditional purpose: providing a holistic liberal arts education that produces students who are “life-ready.”

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ACRLog

AUGUST 11, 2022

I am writing this article in the midst of a major life transition. I hope that those working in similar positions will be able to relate to the ideas explored here and come away from this article feeling empowered and reinvigorated. This is both my first academic job and the only time in recent memory that I haven’t been a student.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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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 Is this Career Advice newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The math faculty created a Math for Liberal Arts course that requires no developmental math, and faculty members redesigned the Statistics and College Algebra courses to require only one semester of developmental math as a prerequisite. 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 linked institutions’ Languages and Cultures Department chair and employees contacted there didn’t provide comment for this article. ” Diversity Religious Colleges Teaching and Learning Editorial Tags: Faculty Research universities Languages Liberal arts Image Caption: St. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts 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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. Amid all these changes, some faculty members wonder whether Manhattanville can continue to offer a liberal arts–grounded education that is heavy on faculty-student interaction. Focus on the Future.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Further, most independent colleges offer a liberal arts education, which recent scholarship has indicated to be associated with increased well-being and participation in civic life as well as improved long-term financial outcomes. Disable left side advertisement?: 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. No In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. They seek rigorous academics and associate that with strong STEM programs in a liberal arts context as the top characteristics of a great university. And they need to prepare themselves for future work, in relevant ways.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A good liberal arts education should make us do that. And maybe, just maybe, I provided a better liberal arts education in Qatar than I thought. In 2019, one of my former students emailed me an article suggesting that Qatar would move forward with legislative elections that had been repeatedly postponed.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Saidat Ilo, liberal arts and social sciences. Nadya Pittendrigh, liberal arts and social sciences. 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

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

What question(s) was the author of this article attempting to answer and why did those questions seem urgent? Virtually all institutions—certainly all liberal arts schools—have language in their mission statements about turning out critical thinkers and lifelong learners.   Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Data available on the website show that unlike most liberal arts colleges, Adrian’s enrollment has boomed, increasing from under 1,000 students in 2005 to roughly 1,900 today. “Small private liberal arts colleges aren’t for everybody, but they work really well for the kids that need them.

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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

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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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 17, 2022

Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal. How, then, do you price tuition for general education courses across disciplines during this initial period of a liberal arts education?

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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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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

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. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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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

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

JANUARY 17, 2023

Brent Thomas , interim provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emporia State University, in Kansas, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs on a permanent basis. Johnson Professor in Economics at St. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Trending: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 6 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?: Yes In-Article Careers: 3 ” Jessica Blum-Sorensen is an assistant professor, director of the classical studies program and director of the St.

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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 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 percentage points per year in the period studied.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

A pair of reports highlighted in a recent Forbes article found that students don’t apply to colleges with high sticker prices. Willamette University, a private liberal arts college in Oregon, experienced an enrollment uptick in 2021 following abysmal rates in 2019.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of the top five majors represented in the report, only business saw increases from last year, while health professions, liberal arts, biological and biomedical sciences, and engineering all continued to drop. percent and 0.2 percent, respectively. Computer science, the sixth most popular major, saw significant growth, increasing by 10.4

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services.

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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. Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. A Plea for Help.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring. Trending: 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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