Campus Sonar

MARCH 5, 2025

Last month, I introduced social intelligence to a board of trustees of a small liberal arts college, focusing on its applications to advancement. I offer the following definitions.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Typically that will mean something like a liberal arts transfer major. But most students don’t want liberal arts majors when they get to college. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

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 liberal arts fields. There’s no faster way to hasten the decline of the liberal arts than to pretend that making a living doesn’t matter.

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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.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Read Kathryn Spielvogel’s blog article about this first edition title: “Why the Study of Western Civilization Still Matters” William J. Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He earned a Ph.D. in East Asian history at Georgetown University in 1968.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Throckmorton also blogged about the discrepancies back in 2009. “I do think that the article should be retracted,” said Throckmorton, who called it “trash” in a blog post last week about the new Editorial Expression of Concern. Grove City, in Pennsylvania, is a Christian liberal arts college.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Start spreading the news. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? " The progressive educator John Dewey was perhaps the most influential critic of a liberal education as it was understood in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. ” Wait a second.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer While Michigan is synonymous with mobility when it comes to manufacturing vehicles of all shapes and sizes, every Michigander knows that a car is only as good as the road it is driven on—and we also know that many of Michigan’s highways have fallen into disrepair.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

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 liberal arts fields, how do you handle conversations like these with students like these? ”—but the lines that really raised an eyebrow came from TG herself.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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 liberal arts degrees can hold real appeal, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? These colleges also demonstrate that public universities can provide an education of the highest quality at a fraction of the price of a liberal arts college. In this case, I think we should embrace Louisiana senator Huey Long’s populist slogan “Share Our Wealth.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.”

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 17, 2024

Source: Google John Cabot University is the top search engine reply page for “liberal arts university in Rome”. Effective University SEO Strategies For Your School Gone are the days of cramming keywords into blog content. The significance of SEO for universities extends beyond visibility.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. I’m proud LCCC provides a career onramp for students like Tim, Madison, Tiffany and Ron, who are interested in the liberal arts and the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. Public administration remains an active major within the political science department at Auburn. Jonathan Turley, J.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Another mathematics professor at a liberal arts college who has served on the American Mathematical Society Council spoke on the condition of anonymity, as she was not authorized to speak in that capacity. The blog is no longer sponsored by the American Mathematical Society.). This individual supported Thompson.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. The ridiculous faculty job market in liberal arts fields over the last several decades has essentially severed whatever connection may once have existed between a college’s place on the food chain of prestige and the quality of teaching.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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 liberal arts courses and CTE courses, allowing industry certifications to take the place of graduate degrees in career and technical areas.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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 liberal arts college, or big expensive private school, etc.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With the help of eight passionate instructors, we added 80 new Concept Videos to WebAssign across College Algebra, Developmental Math and Liberal Arts Math courses. The post How to Use New Math Concept Videos in Your WebAssign Course appeared first on The Cengage Blog. Find out what else is new in WebAssign.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Embrace the applied and the practical liberal arts: Why not offer liberal arts majors or certificates that offer a vocational payoff, for example, in development and philanthropy, multimodal communication, including visual and online communication, policy planning and analysis, technical writing, or translation?

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 17, 2024

That work appeared in many blog posts , presentations, meetings, Future Trends Forum sessions, and my 2023 book, Universities on Fire. I raised the idea that responding to climate change might be the new liberal arts. Today I’m delighted to announce that this work has received some splendid recognition.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Remember Bluto’s classic line in Animal House —“Christ. and continental European model, in which the liberal arts portion of a college education takes place in high school. Seven years of college down the drain”? I sure do. Want an approach closer to the U.K.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by John Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the Open University and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. It is Birmingham University, which provides LANS, ‘Liberal Arts and Natural Sciences’, which offers studies across a wide range of disciplines. Do they match?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Within the Jesuit tradition, there is a concept, “ cura personalis ,” which means to care for the whole person. When applied to education, this principle seeks to promote the personal development of the whole person, mentally, but also physically, ethically and, yes, spiritually.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation We are always eager to hear new ways universities are creating affordable online programs at scale. It is the conversation we never tire of having, and this time, we are talking to colleagues and friends, Georgetown’s Kelly Otter and Coursera’s Betty Vandenbosch.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

JUNE 4, 2024

For instance, an online school that serves adult learners might showcase the flexibility of its courses for individuals who need to juggle full-time jobs or family commitments, while a community-driven liberal arts college might emphasize the advantages of its location and two-year program offerings.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sociology and liberal arts/general studies were tied for second place (72%), followed by communications (64%), education (61%), marketing (60%), medical/clinical assisting (58%), political science/government (56%), biology (52%), and English literature/language (52%).

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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 liberal arts, and they’re more common in places that are geographically far from four-year public colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. It Isn’t Loving Me Back.” ” It’s a tough read.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

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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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Top 10 Student Recruitment strategies every institution should adopt editor Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:24 In the dynamic world of higher education, recruiting top-tier talent isn't just a process—it's an art. This blog serves as your guide to 10 essential Higher Education Recruitment strategies.

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Liaison International

APRIL 5, 2023

In the rolling hills of Amherst, Massachusetts, Hampshire College offers students a unique and unconventional liberal arts 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.

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University Business

JULY 20, 2023

The University of Minnesota and Carnegie Mellon University—two R1 research universities—and the highly selective private liberal arts college Wesleyan University have rendered a student’s connection to alumni irrelevant when considering their application.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Blogs The ever-persistent ROI question: What is my degree worth? As a small, private, liberal arts institution in Spartanburg, South Carolina, our resources are not infinite. Not unlike other institutions, Converse University has encountered some major changes over the past several years.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The Gartner hype cycle for AI-fueled text and image generation is currently at its peak of inflated expectations. Can the trough of disillusionment be far off? Forgive this post’s misleading title. I consider ChatGPT, the text generator, an ally, not an adversary.

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