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. He is currently writing a book, Persistence of Error: A Natural History of Mutation, explaining genetic mutation for non-scientists. He will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The courses span various fields – including criminology, social welfare and justice, and history – and touch on topics such as mass incarceration, surveillance, poetry, and the psychology of adolescent development. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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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. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Liberal Education is a magazine published by the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) focused on the relationship of liberal education and good citizenship and preparing students for lives of purpose and meaning. History Kimball, Bruce A.: Zakaria, Fareed: In Defense of a Liberal Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. His leadership career has spanned several HBCUs, and he is currently writing a history of African Americans in Alabama. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

As the only full-time art faculty at the college, much of this work fell to me, Nate Wilson, Fine Arts Instructor. While I’m mostly a studio arts guy, drawing, sculpture, painting, and the like, I do have some art history background, both in the classroom and taking students abroad to London.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But when an eminent scholar whose books and articles I admire and who currently directs a program on politics and statesmanship at Princeton questions the worth of a four-year program, I must ask, why? and continental European model, in which the liberal arts portion of a college education takes place in high school.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

I may read fewer novels than when I was younger, but I read much more non-fiction: a seemingly unending torrent of books and articles, editorials, essays, social commentary, blog postings, tweets, and other long and short-form texts. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed ® , Dr. Drumm McNaughton speaks with economist and investment manager David Linton about his findings from his upcoming book, Crushed: How Student Debt Has Impaired a Generation and What to Do About It. Just read the book. David has written two books. It’s a better return on time.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“ Senior leadership’s role is essential: as Ehrmann explains in his important book Pursuing Quality, Access and Affordability: A Field Guide to Improving Higher Education , presidents or provosts must define a vision, articulate the institution’s needs and push for cross-silo collaboration. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in. The pandemic, an event timestamped in the history of U.S. presidents, her favorite kind of books. For the first time in her career, she was the president of a university. But this was March of 2020.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? And one day, I was a senior in high school, it was the middle of my senior year, a beautiful book came in the mail and it was about a place called Sewanee. ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Mae Watters: I am.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. This broader view of the public good aligns education more closely with the needs of society and the job market.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

She is the first woman to achieve this position in the university’s 100-year history. Kirk has a longstanding history with Concordia, which is her alma mater. Another accomplishment for the history books is the university’s first increase in enrollment in a decade this fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

For the first time in history, substantial numbers of young women lived outside of a family home, not as servants but as mill girls, earning an independent income and living with other young women. Certain books withstand the test of time. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges. Justin Grimes: So one of the things is I’m on right now, my, spring tour for my book and workshops that I’m doing. Drumm: takeaways.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

” This document, a noteworthy publication in AGB’s 110-year history and only the 13th such statement, addresses crucial issues in contemporary educational governance. And I sit actually as a trustee on a small, liberal arts college halfway around the world called High Gaussian College. Good to see you. [00:31:52]

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

Recommended Reading for Leaders We always like hearing about leadership-themed books that inspire our guests. Because we're a military-affiliated institution, we love The Wisdom of the Bullfrog , which is a neat book by William McRaven.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? covers the global shift in Higher Education. And of course the reverse is also true.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

A Brief History of American Higher Education Part Three — The Democratization of Institutions and Ideas AAUP At the end of the 19 th and beginning of the 20 th century, there were numerous threats to academic freedom including a handful of celebrated cases. · and the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Today, remnants of middlebrow culture live on, evident in PBS’s American Masters series or in Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions book series and even the game show Jeopardy! Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Joseph Horwitz’s recent Dvo?ák's

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

But history without theory is thin gruel, and social scientists like Brint and Labaree play a crucial role in identifying the conceptual issues that their historian counterparts at times downplay. Let me note at the outset that this new book, Being a Scholar , is as much teacherly as it is academic. You should too.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 2, 2023

The fundamental reason is that the wealthiest colleges and universities compete intensely to increase their revenue, wealth and spending, while the earnings growth of most Americans has lagged behind the cost of living, as we explain in our new book. How, then, can that rivalry be curtailed in order to restore public esteem?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Johns offer variations on a great books curriculum. Thanks to funding from the New York-based Teagle Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting and strengthening liberal arts education and punches well beyond its weight, a number of other institutions have adopted somewhat similar models. Sure, there are exceptions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. A recent book by Daniel H. ” Certainly true, but, as written, insufficient. I totally disagree.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

But there was no civics, history, geography, or any form of a liberal arts education. The Naval Academy, by legal statute, requires 80% of the graduates to be technical majors in STEM and 20% to get a liberal arts education. We were required to take a lot of liberal arts courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Curwood (The University of North Carolina Press) is a fascinating and timely book that traces the political trajectory of the first African American congresswoman who would later break barriers as the first Black major party presidential candidate. That’s why Curwood’s book is so important.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. “A teeny liberal arts college can’t make that investment.”

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