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.

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Liaison International

JANUARY 29, 2025

The 2025 Degree Intent Scores are powered by cutting-edge data science, advanced modeling techniques, and insights from a national survey conducted in late 2024. The 2025 Degree Intent Scores are powered by cutting-edge data science, advanced modeling techniques, and insights from a national survey conducted in late 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For two decades, the gradual decline of the liberal arts degree has been met with both resignation and celebration. As higher education faces growing pressure to invest in academic programs that provide direct pathways to a career, many resource-strapped colleges have responded by making significant cuts to their liberal arts offerings.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

West Virginia University, the state’s flagship institution, performs the song at many of its events. Thus, the list of universities and colleges eliminating some or all their language education over the last decade includes the likes of Missouri Western State University, SUNY Potsdam and Eastern Carolina University.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It is not enough to simply replicating strategies from their home campuses, university leaders cautioned at The PIE Live India 2025 conference in Delhi. The university founded the Asian Smart Cities Research Innovation Network in 2019, which has now a joint investment of over AUD $43 million.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences Native Explorers Program Governor Bill Anoatubby of the Chickasaw Nation on the left has supported the Native Explorers Program for 15 years. The full list of 2024 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners can be found here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Gilead Sciences Inc. has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Gilead Sciences recently announced awards totaling $12.6 Setting the P.A.C.E.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. He currently serves as the CEO of True Empowering LLC, a communications company. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are a few of the innovative designs developed by researchers for people with disabilities at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The researchers developed PURE over the last five years with grant funding from the National Science Foundation.

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University Business

MARCH 28, 2024

There’s new momentum building on college and university campuses to rescue and reinvigorate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs, vital initiatives that have been the target of a coordinated national assault for over a year. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused. The best way is to keep it simple and keep it focused.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Due to the strong positive impact growth mindsets have on student success, using practices that support this mindset are instrumental in the online environment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

In honor of Pride Month, college and university campuses across the U.S. Shane Windmeyer At Emory University , those from multiple generations of the LGBTQ+ community were allowed to tell their stories and discuss American queer history at a Jun. Students at Ohio University similarly celebrated Pride through art in late May.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 28, 2024

As part of its credential offerings for incarcerated students, the Hope Scholars Program facilitates three associate degree for transfer (ADT) programs — communication studies, psychology, and sociology — which are designed for students interested in transferring to a University of California or California State University institution.

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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. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) is expanding into STEAM, with the addition of art.

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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. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Due to the strong positive impact growth mindsets have on student success, using practices that support this mindset are instrumental in the online environment.

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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. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B. Read about them here.

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University Business

JULY 19, 2023

That leader, Kathleen McElroy, would not only have the chance to revamp the university’s journalism program, but she would be doing so at her alma mater. Similarly, McElroy returns to UT-Austin feeling “damaged” by this process after the university tossed her original and subsequent employment contracts.

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HEPI

MAY 13, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Annabel Dukes, Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. The humanities are the study of the arts, history, language, religion and philosophy. By contrast, the potential for humanities research knowledge to contribute to society is overlooked and underexploited.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

By field, arts and humanities students are likeliest to say they rely on deadlines (57 percent). Additionally, students in the arts and humanities (57 percent) seem to want more general flexibility than students in the sciences (41 percent) or the social sciences (48 percent). But how do students define flexibility?

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UW Presidential Blog

MARCH 5, 2024

At the University of Washington, women have been making history since the University was founded. In Seattle, new Provost Tricia Serio serves as the University’s chief academic officer. Together, this marks first time in UW history that all four of these leadership positions have been held by women.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Midlands Innovation is a strategic research partnership of eight research intensive universities in the Midlands. per cent of university-educated technical workers, which is significantly lower than the share observed in other occupations (59.8 The TALENT Commission report was published in 2022. percentage points, respectively).

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

1 As universities continue to transition towards online education, educators commonly use asynchronous videos and synchronous video conferences as the primary modes of instruction. The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. narrated animations).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. Hope, assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University. population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

Strayhorn, vice provost and interim dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Virginia Union University. "I prefer to lean into hope rather than despair," said Dr. Shawna Patterson-Stephens, v ice president for inclusive excellence and belonging at Central Michigan University.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

DisruptED aims to generate competencies within the ministry to lead the country into a future that raises the concept of innovation in education to unprecedented levels,” said Hind Al Tair, director of the Department of Science, Technology and Scientific Research and deputy head of the Innovation Committee at the education ministry.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Victoria Moody, Director of Higher Education and Research at Jisc. Developing digital research infrastructure (DRI), the core technological aspects used in research production, with collaboration in mind can improve efficiency, reduce bureaucracy and improve outcomes.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation I’m totally psyched about the newly announced master of science in artificial intelligence (MSAI) degree from the University of Texas at Austin. A $10K master’s degree from a top global university. I’ll give you 10,000 reasons: the degree will cost students $10,000! Totally online.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clark University had been a neighbor to Becker for nearly 135 years. In August 2021, the BSDT began its first semester as part of Clark University, with classes held in two leased buildings on the former site of the Becker College campus. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

colleges and universities is on the rise, although it has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the Institute for International Education. Next on the list is “leading with humility and candor to engage, empower, and retain the IT workforce,” followed by leveraging data and analytics to boost enrollment.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Reading Time: 5 minutes Christina Katopodis is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Transformative Learning in the Humanities at the City University of New York (CUNY). If we were on a Zoom call and I told you we were about to get into breakout rooms , how stressed would you feel? Would you stay on the call, or would you jump off?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., When she became president of Trinity in 1989, the university’s future seemed dire.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

1 As universities continue to transition towards online education, educators commonly use asynchronous videos and synchronous video conferences as the primary modes of instruction. The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. narrated animations).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As employers grapple with economic constraints of the post-pandemic world and workers re-evaluate their expectations for flexibility, equity and respect in the workplace, higher education continues to lag in preparing the workforce’s rising generation. At the same time, the global talent shortage is amplified by the growing skills gap.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Many colleges and universities around the country offer First-Year Seminars (FYS) or First-Year Experiences (FYE). Our class, “Banned Books and School Policy,” related to education, of course, but also touched on sociology, political science, history, English literature, religion, and public policy.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 8, 2023

Similarly, in a science class, students can collaborate on a virtual whiteboard to solve complex problems, draw diagrams, and illustrate scientific processes—promoting collaborative problem-solving skills. The key to unlocking this new era of educational success lies in the integration of active learning strategies.

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