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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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

A project at Montclair State University (MSU), a public research university in New Jersey, focuses on reviving the Native American Munsee language, while faculty and students at Haverford College, a private liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, are working in Oaxaca, Mexico, to safeguard Zapotec languages.

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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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. doi:10.34190/EEL.19.012. Dweck, Carol. New York: Ballantine, 2008.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel. I feel like teaching from home will humanize me,” a colleague said. I longed for the small rituals of the classroom: a backpack unzipping, a pencil poised, a book spine splaying.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

One of the most foundational books I’ve read as an online educator of nontraditional adult learners is Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. In her book, Carol Dweck posits that all people are of two mindsets: a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. doi:10.34190/EEL.19.012. Dweck, Carol. New York: Ballantine, 2008.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

“There are specific skills that need to be taught, to be trained, but we don’t need to do that with the same plays, the same books. Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” That comes directly from me being a Latinx artist,” said Villada. Luckett and Dr. Tia M.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel. I feel like teaching from home will humanize me,” a colleague said. I longed for the small rituals of the classroom: a backpack unzipping, a pencil poised, a book spine splaying.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The four-year degree isn’t working for a lot of people,” Lori Carrell, the chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, told her colleagues around the table, noting higher education’s high cost and low degree attainment, which has “squandered human potential at times.” ” Pasquerella said.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She is the author of two important books on the history of immigration and childhood, The Revolution Is for the Children: The Politics of Childhood in Havana and Miami, 1959-1962 and Suffer the Little Children , a history of U.S. All of our futures depend on their success.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

course or a book discussion group focused on racial stress—will earn what is tentatively titled the microcredential in mental health leadership, which they can list on a résumé or in an email signature. “I think that’s part of changing the culture on campus, that we value this now,” she said.

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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. Input from the humanities is essential.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. His work has been published in numerous journal articles, book chapters, and research reports, and featured in a range of media outlets, including Politico, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, and The Daily Yonder.

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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. If we believe that human promise is distributed equally, it’s what has been our lived experience.

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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.

JANUARY 23, 2024

You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges. I remember when I started my doctoral program, and it was in human and organizational systems. They are spread across higher education. Drumm: takeaways.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

Recognizing the dynamic nature of higher education governance, leaders often find themselves in positions where they might test the limits, which is a natural aspect of human behavior. And I sit actually as a trustee on a small, liberal arts college halfway around the world called High Gaussian College. 00:36:03] Drumm: Really?

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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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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. it sure does. That’s exactly right.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

President Milliron told us how this human factor has been the hardest challenge to navigate as a leader: "I've been incredibly blessed to work with inspirational and meaningful folks. Recommended Reading for Leaders We always like hearing about leadership-themed books that inspire our guests.

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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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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. The question of how to incorporate digital technology into traditional human knowledge acquisition is essential to the future of universities.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. The question of how to incorporate digital technology into traditional human knowledge acquisition is essential to the future of universities.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. Drumm McNaughton I would agree.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Or, to take another example: “Still life paintings pictured the bounty provided by newly established Dutch trade routes and the Republic’s economic success, while omitting the human cost of colonial warfare and slavery.” A recent book by Daniel H. I totally disagree.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Let me note at the outset that this new book, Being a Scholar , is as much teacherly as it is academic. That’s what Professor Labaree does.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Erskine reasoned that the Great Books were written for general audiences in each generation, but that language and approach made the classics distant and elitist. Flush from his success on the front, he persuaded the faculty at Columbia University to allow him to teach General Honors, a two-year seminar devoted to the Great Books.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

—American proverb, Book of Apollo. ” The unspoken objective was to demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education in a nation that Freedom House ranks 48th out of 100 (“partly free”) due to limited political rights and civil liberties. Houston, we have a problem. And I know which week to visit.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Human Cost: Emotional and Professional Toll The report and subsequent discussions shed light on the significant emotional and professional impact these developments have had on faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

He is the recipient of the WCET Richard Jonsen Award, CAEL’s Morris Keeton Ward, the President’s Medal from Excelsior College, and USDLA’s Distance Learning Hall of Fame Award, as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Fielding Graduate University for his contributions to the field of adult learning. Leo’s for example. [00:54:12]

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” The book traces how that idea changed. Q: Your book is more about the failures of U.S. Q: What do you make then of the shrinking numbers of liberal arts students and the huge increase in those pursuing career tracks in fields such as engineering and business?

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