Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2025

Most of the challenges that we’re dealing with as a global enterprise require an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, and so students need an understanding of not only the humanities, but they need an appreciation and understanding of the sciences,” Nelms says. “To

Arts And Sciences

Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 7, 2025

Background Founded in 1749, Washington and Lee University (W&L) is a private liberal arts college located in Lexington, Virginia. The school became coeducational in 1985 and is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges nationally. degree and are encouraged to pursue interdisciplinary interests.

Liberal Arts

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

JUNE 4, 2025

Reading Time: 11 minutes In todays world, where attention spans are short and options are endless, student recruitment has become both an art and a science. A user who clicks on a scholarship link gets a follow-up email with a financial aid breakdown. Gen Z expects more. And so do their parents. Struggling with enrollment?

Recruitment

Academe Blog

MAY 7, 2025

We can all think of dozens of such ads, and they need to include a defense of the humanities and the social sciences, too, no matter how much easier it is to sell medical and engineering research. The first is between institutions and MAGAs vandalism of higher education, the most acute threat. We also need 30-second TV ads, I think.

Arts And Sciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Rich also led a transformative fundraising campaign that generated over $85 million in new investments for scholarships, student services, faculty positions, and academic initiatives. For more than 235 years, Franklin & Marshall has been a beacon for excellence in liberal arts education.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

Hayden's year-long fellowship will focus on scholarship, writing, and research projects while advising Foundation leadership on supporting libraries, archives, and other public knowledge organizations. Hayden's nearly five-decade career in library science has been marked by efforts to democratize access to information.

Arts And Sciences

Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 27, 2025

From Upton Sinclair's 'Goose Step' to the Neoliberal University (lulu.com) Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One: Macro and Micro Analyses of Higher Education Chapter Two: Discourses On Ideology Chapter Three: Branding Chapter Four: What Do Universities Do?

Higher Education

SRHE

APRIL 16, 2025

As budget cuts tighten and HEIs are forced to make hard choices, is it enough for leaders to understand academic culture, or must they also master the art of institutional strategy and financial sustainability? by Robert Perich, Ladina Rageth, Danya He and Maryna Lakhno Higher education is at a crossroads.

Higher Education

HEPI

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Christopher Smith , Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. In 2020/21, there were about 18,000 arts and humanities doctoral candidates. The gap between supply and demand is inverse to the situation in parts of science, where jobs requiring a PhD exceed the supply.

Degree

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Given some of the unknowns for transfer students—such as which institution they will move to and how many of their credits will apply to program completion—it’s sometimes difficult to estimate what a bachelor’s degree will cost. So the student pays the same tuition at the U of A that they did at the two-year college.

Scholarship

Coursera blog

MAY 2, 2024

However, you may still be able to approach your employer and see if they’re open to paying for a portion of your degree as part of your professional development. Start by approaching your manager to ask whether the company might consider paying for covering some of the costs associated with your degree, like tuition.

Degree

University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Not a week goes by without new laments about the decline of the humanities and social sciences. Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. My experience is different.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Yuliang Zhang, chair of UAB’s computer science department. million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs. 32 students will be selected over five years.

Computer Science

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

Technology

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. We can also identify patterns and trends that might otherwise go unseen. Priorities conflict.

Arts And Sciences

HEPI

AUGUST 13, 2024

When is a degree not a degree? The Master of Arts degree could fit the description. The third type is the degree awarded by the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge and Trinity College, Dublin, which are effectively honorific degrees. degree, which the M.A. degree will replace.

History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Journal of Public Health defines public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.” The pandemic has brought increased awareness of healthcare disparities.

Arts And Sciences

University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%

Community College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 7, 2023

At a time in academia when STEM is increasingly evolving into STEAM, colleges and universities with intensely driven, career-focused students are endeavoring to create space for arts education. Some students envision careers in art, music, or performance, while others see the value of the arts within the context of different career paths.

Arts And Sciences

Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. But those higher figures still won’t bowl you over. ” Ugh.

Arts And Sciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Johnathan Gaines This Institute for Dual Degree Engineering Advancement (IDEA) will build upon and expand the AUCC’s existing Dual Degree Engineering Program (DDEP) which allows students from AUCC schools to attend their school for three years before transferring to an engineering institution for another two. James & Alice B.

Engineering

The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Following changes made in 2023 , South Korea has increased its internship degree options. He said that international students can then gain experience in sectors alongside their degree, and that universities are also extending their post degree period visa to three years to help students find permanent work.

Education

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

It is often used as a research method in the social sciences and is typically used to study underserved populations and how they experience life—such as homeless youth, victims of trauma, and many more. As a faculty member, I often hear the blatant dismissal of students and their preoccupation with technology. The reality is very different.

Technology

HEPI

AUGUST 12, 2024

Thus far, most efforts have led to a degree of diversification of teaching and learning materials and work to decolonise the curriculum. They recognise that there are a number of arts and humanities journals in particular that do not meet these criteria.

Arts And Sciences

The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computer science, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. “There is going to be a continuing need for liberal arts because critical thinking is still a fundamental skill,” he detailed.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. Throughout her life and career, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson has proven to be a leader, innovator, and motivator. Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

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.

Arts And Sciences

University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years. Additionally, while transfers often lead to the belief that they will earn their degree in two years, only 18% of students do so.

Schooling

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clark’s leadership was determined help soften the blow, especially for students who needed continuity of learning to finish their degrees. Another 11 students in the master of fine arts program enrolled in eight sections and five unique courses. Clark University had been a neighbor to Becker for nearly 135 years.

Arts And Sciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 3, 2024

in sociology in 2015 from Emory University’s Laney Graduate School and her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and political science from North Carolina Central University. Tressie McMillan Cottom wants her work to meet people where they are, and to do so, she uses many platforms and intersects multiple disciplines.

Arts And Sciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Educational programming Armory College Prep helps student-athletes attain a college degree at no cost to participants. In 2002, the Armory Foundation launched Armory College Prep (ACP) to help students training at the Armory Track attain a college degree at no cost to participants. There are also reading and nutrition workshops.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 19, 2022

An often-underappreciated component of this strategy has been the industry’s rise as a key funder of climate-related research and scholarship worldwide. That is to say, the industry has mastered the art of exploiting universities’ credibility to serve its own interests. In May, Stanford University announced a $1.1

Academia

University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. An esports program was something he immediately wanted to embark on since taking a role in the school of visual media arts, alongside s tarting a degree program in game design and interactive media at UM.

Arts And Sciences

University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read more from The Washington Times.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

What can the arts do to heal and help us see a better future?” As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes. Theater is a communal experience.

History

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Historians sometimes describe the social sciences as theory rich but often data poor. The volume, like Professor Labaree’s entire body of scholarship is remarkably wide-ranging. ” The forces that the broadcast examined were psychological, and included people’s emotions, fantasies, fears, and wishes.

History