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Vassar connects two-year colleges and liberal arts colleges

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.

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Using innovative TNE models grow enrolments in US colleges and universities

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In particular liberal arts colleges and second-tier US state universities will be under particular pressure. This innovative model is described as a Graduate Hub partnership. About the author: This is a sponsored article by Charles Cormack. All the above means the US universities are going to need innovate to survive.

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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

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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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. I actually think we need a model of shared governance that’s more robust than what we had in the years before pandemic.” For many years its leaders referred to it as a “liberal arts university.”

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Informational Holism: Humanities librarianship, liberal arts, and the limitations of quantitative metrics

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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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Biotech boot camp at Villanova exposes students to career paths

Inside Higher Ed

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 Click here to submit.

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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

Inside Higher Ed

“I put together a model to grow enrollment quickly, and we did. “That was a good model. 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. He just ran out of inexpensive sports.