MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

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.” I came across an interesting article recently that suggests higher ed has forgotten its aim.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We higher ed institution.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By partnering with other institutions, colleges can quickly introduce new programs in high-demand fields, attracting students who might otherwise have overlooked small liberal arts schools. Many liberal arts colleges are struggling to attract students who prefer career-focused majors over traditional humanities disciplines.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

This appointment makes her the second woman to lead the school. Petersen Petersen is a professor of political science and dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa (TU). She was previously faculty and dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

She will be the first woman to lead the school. In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee. “In

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. The school offers a B.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

On the chopping block were undergraduate majors in music, art and multiple foreign languages; master’s programs in acting, landscape architecture and creative writing; and doctoral programs in mathematics, management, higher education and occupational- and environmental health sciences.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

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.” percent between 2015 and 2019.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

liberal arts college, potentially resulting in the school receiving $750 million for its endowment. The Kansas liberal arts school has raised $130 million so far. McPherson College has received the largest single commitment to a small U.S. The deadline is Jun.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students at the liberal arts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies. “Those are our students. They’re ambitious. They want to move ahead.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

She has also served as associate dean for Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts; dean of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Denver; and dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences. in French literature from the University of Strasbourg in France. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

The schools unveiled a trio of collaborations April 18 at Columbus State’s Delaware Campus, highlighted by the Tuition Match Program. The schools unveiled a trio of collaborations April 18 at Columbus State’s Delaware Campus, highlighted by the Tuition Match Program. and is in good academic standing with no disciplinary violations.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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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.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums? New tools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Phillips said she aims to create sustainable financial models, enrollment numbers, and programs, as well as refresh some programs and build upon strong course offerings such as health sciences and liberal arts. To me, that’s community well-being and you’ve got that here and you’ve got that willingness.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The grant – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – is a first-of-its-kind awarded to a historically Black college or university (HBCU) through the NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences , Office of Integrative Activities , and HBCU Excellence in Research (EiR) integrated programs, for this type of research.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26. 2022), 16-26.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The work that we do… helps folks to come to research topics of common interest from science, and social sciences to medicine and history,” said Garcetti. “I When I read many great religious, philosophical, historical texts of India it changed my life and perspective. Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with high school math and increased support services provide certain levels of improvement but do not address the underlying issue: the student-deficiency mentality common among higher education practitioners. And the list goes on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Before that, he was vice president for advancement and external relations and vice president for advancement at Alma College; associate vice president for development at Albion College; and assistant dean for development and alumni relations at the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Jeffrey Henderson, director of the classics advisory service for the Society for Classical Studies, said, “Even the best-heeled schools are not growing their humanities programs.” percent from 2016 to 2020—the largest drop since it began its survey in 1958. percent,” the association wrote.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. Q: Your Ph.D. is in linguistics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Upward transfers – where students transfer from two-year institutions to four-year schools – experienced the brunt of the drops, making up most of the Fall 2022 transfer enrollment decline, according to the report. Undergraduate enrollment in general slowed its fall in 2022, going from -4.1% in 2021 to now -1.5%. decrease from 2020-2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

Two weeks later, he will walk across the stage to receive his high school diploma, adding one last credential to the collection he’s been building since he was 11 years old, when he took his first dual enrollment courses. He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Notably, a significant portion of the community college enrollment increase came from dually enrolled high school students , according to Shapiro; with secondary students removed from the data, community colleges would have experienced yet another dip of between 1.5 million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3

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MindMax

JANUARY 4, 2023

How MindMax has helped schools across the country boost web traffic, increase student response rates, grow enrollments, and generate millions of dollars in additional revenue. Across the schools MindMax partnered with, there were three primary audiences targeted for summer enrollment: High schoolers in pre-college programs.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. He holds a B.A.

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The easy-to-navigate site structure allows audiences to quickly find the information most relevant to them, whether they are a current DMU student, a recent graduate, or a nontraditional student seeking to return to school. We would like to spotlight these five campaigns and share the strategy behind these award-winning efforts.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Everybody’s interested in the ROI on their education because college education is very expensive,” said Sue Harbour, associate dean and executive director of the career center at the University of California, Berkeley, one of the 5-star schools, according to Money. People want to know: Is it worth my time and my money?”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. These increases are a good sign.” respectively.

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