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Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a LiberalArt ,” is a must-read. The boundaries of the “liberalarts” change over time and place. Classically, Orzel is correct: physics is a liberalart. And he’s right.
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 liberalarts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career.
Aaron Basko This is a guest blog from Aaron Basko , vice president for enrollment management at Lynchburg Universit y. WVWC is a quintessential small liberalarts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia. Those are the ones I can think of right away.”
Manhattanville remains a private liberalarts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Focus on the Future.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Typically that will mean something like a liberalarts transfer major. But most students don’t want liberalarts majors when they get to college. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit.
An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. Around this time, Stern’s new dean allegedly opposed his tenure bid, as did the provost, contradicting the positive recommendation of his department.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberalarts fields. What they don’t know is that the skills developed in liberalarts classes can make the difference.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last weekend we drove to UMD to visit The Girl and catch a basketball game. Wise and worldly readers who teach in liberalarts fields, how do you handle conversations like these with students like these?
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A number of terrific tidbits have come in over the last week or so, most of which are directly relevant to student success. That can certainly be true, but Morgan State has found that liberalarts degrees can hold real appeal, too.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. He’s a philosophy professor and a dean. A reader wrote in with an observation that I’m sure is true. By the time I taught in less prestigious settings, I was a much better and more experienced teacher.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The student could take that funding with them to wherever so they could get a full ride at the community college or part of the cost at the State U, a liberalarts college, or big expensive private school, etc.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my wise and worldly readers to help me figure out how to do concurrent enrollment at scale. Some places make a distinction between liberalarts courses and CTE courses, allowing industry certifications to take the place of graduate degrees in career and technical areas.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last week, Sara Goldrick-Rab amplified a tweet from Ricky Shabazz that caught my eye. They tend to be more commonly focused in workforce programs than in the liberalarts, and they’re more common in places that are geographically far from four-year public colleges.
In the rolling hills of Amherst, Massachusetts, Hampshire College offers students a unique and unconventional liberalarts education. Founded in 1965 with a strong focus on diversity, students are encouraged to create their own academic paths through self-designed programs and innovative study. Not many schools like this exist.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I “Poohbae” connotes polyamory, which is another blog altogether. So many poohbahs! ” I disagree.
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Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. You may have read that Georgetown University is launching an online part-time bachelor’s degree completion program in liberal studies in partnership with Coursera. But it could, in my opinion, do something that no MOOC, no matter how well designed, could.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! It’s also true that many liberalarts fields tend to lead to careers that aren’t closely related to their content. ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile.
Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Already we know that associate degrees in most liberalarts fields don’t have much payoff in themselves – that is, absent transfer, which is what those degrees are for – and those at least have reasonably expansive gen ed requirements. And should it?
AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. including college and university counselors.
Our report closed with a number of recommendations which you can find outlined in our July 20 th blog. A theater course at a small liberalarts college. Clearly campuses are struggling to make sense of AI and its impact on higher education. Why this is important AI usage on campuses can be vast.
We will be doing so here on the Frontiers Blog and episodes on the Frontiers Podcast! This also provided some direction for what a newly made Native American Art course should be like. We’re looking forward to beginning our awards program for 2023, with some new updates to our process and winner showcase!
Buchanan, who was appointed dean, thought that the traditional liberalarts could be used as a formal structure for learning; he devised a course of study with the great books as the basis for discussion classes.
Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management and associate dean of academic affairs at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of the second article, said, “Our findings show that women are rated significantly lower as they age from younger to middle age, with their lowest teaching ratings emerging at age 47.
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This turned into an ongoing debate. students as they did.
Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I’ve never really trusted my powers of prediction, but recent weeks have seriously eroded any confidence in my ability to forecast the future. I think it’s fair to say that our offices of the dean of students, student life, and student affairs need to do better.
Blog: Learning Innovation Earlier this week, I focused on how the pandemic altered how academics work. In an ever-evolving labor market, human skills, or “soft skills,” like critical thinking, communication or teamwork, often developed in a liberalarts degree, still remain in high demand.
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.
Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberalarts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberalarts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberalarts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?
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