Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A liberal arts and sciences college from New York has pledged to support 425 refugee and displaced students in the next four years as the UN seeks to reach its 15by30 target. A report released in December noted that exact data on how many students holding refugee status in the US is missing.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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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.” There is absolutely nothing wrong with adapting and evolving.

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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. higher ed institution. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Atlanta-based institution was founded in 1881 and is considered a leading liberal arts college and global leader in the education of women of African descent. in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Spelman College has received a historic $100 million gift. Stryker is also vice chair of Greenleaf Trust.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbus State Community College are collaborating to address societal challenges and help Columbus State students more quickly, easily, and affordably earn bachelor’s degrees at Ohio Wesleyan. The program is available to up to 25 full-time students each year for up to four consecutive Ohio Wesleyan semesters.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

For example, what difference does a population of 1,500 students at one institution make in the grand scheme of higher ed? Those students can always go to a larger institution. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: Villanova University took a new approach on translating major skills into career opportunities for students with its biotechnology boot camp, introducing learners to alumni and employers in a difficult-to-enter field. Employers are also looking at younger talent and hiring STEM major undergraduates instead of just Ph.D.

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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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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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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The US is aiming to send more of its students to India, said US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti during his address at the annual IC3 conference in Delhi. But the other way isn’t high enough… It’s one of my goals to bring more American students to India.” Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India.

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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. We must reimagine the campus, just like we’ve reimagined the workplace in the last two years, and do it without burdening our students with more debt.” $500

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies.

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The happiest respondents earned their degrees in computer and information sciences, and criminology. Holders of computer science degrees are finding their skills in high demand all across the workforce—from tech to consulting to management, where they are being offered average salaries of $100,000 or more, ZipRecruiter says.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Previously, she was dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at California State University, Los Angeles; interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and founding director of the psychometrics graduate program at Morgan State University; faculty at Spelman; and senior research scientist for Kraft General Foods.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Officials said the layoffs are the resulted from the elimination of the College of General Studies (CGS) at the university’s Waukesha campus, where students could earn an associate degree in liberal arts — such as in arts and humanities, math and natural sciences, and social sciences and business.

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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. Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

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. Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The pandemic decreased college enrollment over all, but “language enrollments at four-year public and private nonprofit institutions decreased disproportionately, declining by 15 percent while overall student enrollments declined by only 0.4 A university spokesman says they have 2,900 undergraduate students combined.

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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. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences. The school offers a B.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ohio Wesleyan is a distinctive, forward-looking, and appreciably student-centered institution that transforms lives,” vandenBerg said. With initiatives like the OWU Connection, Ohio Wesleyan and its faculty are reimagining the liberal arts for the needs of a new world and a new generation of students.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

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. But at institutions where students’ family income is under $70,000, it is considered a luxury.

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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. Come this August, students will be able to declare either a major or a minor in cannabis studies. That needs to be approached with all of the care in the world and a better understanding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Fall transfer enrollment remains in decline in 2022, albeit at a slower rate than before, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The decline was also observed across institutions at all levels of selectiveness, the worst being for students transferring to highly selective institutions (-13.4%).

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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. Our jobs necessarily demand that we’re triangulating between students, professors and others (parents, support offices, health providers, etc.)

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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. there were protests on campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In most programs, business students’ median annual earnings two years after graduation are roughly 10 times their monthly debt payments.” Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? To ensure that all students acquired transferable soft skills? ” Wait a second.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. Most notably, the students [learners] expressed levels of dissatisfaction with their recent educational experiences. However, one participant had an intense reaction to our suggestion.

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