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Pharr has been named president of Pitt CommunityCollege (PCC). Dr. Maria Pharr “I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as next president of Pitt CommunityCollege and look forward to contributing to the college’s legacy of leadership excellence,” said Pharr. Pharr starts the role Aug.
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Hired Shari Olsen – Northland Community and Technical College (Minn.) Shari Olson, Northland CommunityCollege Shari Olsen has been promoted to permanent president of Northland CommunityCollege, effective immediately. Gonzalez – Kalamazoo College (Mich.) Retiring Jorge G.
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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 liberalarts education that produces students who are “life-ready.” I came across an interesting article recently that suggests higher ed has forgotten its aim.
As colleges and universities across the country face declining enrollments caused by rising tuition costs, changing job market demands, and demographic shifts, institutions are getting creative with solutions. The number of humanities degrees has declined by 14% in the past decade, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbus State CommunityCollege are collaborating to address societal challenges and help Columbus State students more quickly, easily, and affordably earn bachelor’s degrees at Ohio Wesleyan. and is in good academic standing with no disciplinary violations.
Students at the liberalarts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. Students at the liberalarts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees.
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million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from communitycolleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 While the number still remains well below the 2.49
I agree that the cuts to language study at WVU deprive all its students of a seminal educational opportunity, such as highly marketable skills in intercultural competency and communicative competency. WVU fits the same category because most of the state’s population lives in relatively poor rural communities of fewer than 2,500 inhabitants.
Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberalarts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. gain in first-time college students, thanks in part to an 8.9% increase in communitycollege transfer students, NC Newsline reports.
While overall enrollments are still down (with about 100,000 students missing from communitycollege since the start of the pandemic), the data show that student mobility has increased, particularly transfers into very competitive or highly selective institutions. These increases are a good sign.”
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She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local communitycollege. Marta also takes care of her mother, who has declining health and requires increasing levels of care. Although her family is in San Luis Obispo County, she is more than 100 miles from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo University. Lawrence A.
He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberalarts, and biology. The rule is you can’t go to college until you have a high school degree. Their dual credit opportunities with Ivy Tech CommunityCollege gave him the chance to jump-start his future. He’s 15 years old.
In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021.
What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberalarts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberalarts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.
The demographic shifts have also been a tremendous challenge and all members of the university community have been trying to find ways to respond. We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from communitycollege to the doctorate in nursing practice.
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If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators.
The allure of the novel, the newfangled, the groundbreaking and the state-of-the-art can also lead us down a primrose path. Columbia’s core is anything but perfect: it remains much too Eurocentric and fails to engage sufficiently with the social sciences or the pressing issues of the present. Nostalgia can be damaging.
Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberalarts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberalarts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.
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Although freshmen classes are still well below pre-pandemic levels, especially at CommunityColleges, the fact that they are swinging upward in all sectors is a positive indicator for the future.” Liberalarts and sciences, which was the third most enrolled major, saw a sharp 4.8% in 2020 and 3.5% They saw a 4.3%
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colleges and universities. Podcast Highlights RSIs are their communities’ primary or only post-secondary education access point and are their most critical employer by launching businesses and consuming most of their goods and services. Therefore, RSIs are tied to their community’s focused industry and must remain targeted.
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