ACRLog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Historically, the capacities I am referring to have been transmitted to learners through the artes liberales (or liberal arts), a Greco-Roman ideal based on the assumption that a flourishing and cooperative society requires a population that is systematically trained in critical, interdisciplinary thinking.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

“Here I am, teaching the same class I’ve taught for 10 years, using the same book and asking the same questions, and my students were dead-silent,” says Jones, who teaches literature and creative writing at Emerson College, a private liberal arts school in Boston. “Then I would ask easier questions — silent.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

However, I know there is an alternative response to throwing in the towel on a liberal arts education and joining the race to the bottom. I may be a nobody in higher education, but I know that I want to educate students to be good liberal artists, informed citizens and capable of changing with changing times.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Mount Holyoke is a gender-inclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, one of the historic Seven Sisters, a group of highly selective women’s liberal arts institutions in the Northeast. Mount Holyoke was founded to challenge the idea that women did not need a liberal arts education,” said Holley.

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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. 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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University Business

MARCH 31, 2023

Many worry their teachers will be fired en masse and their courses and books will be policed. For years, students have come to this public liberal arts college on the western coast of Florida because they were self-described free thinkers. Students are concerned, too. Some fear for their physical safety.

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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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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. Reading Time: 3 minutes Math students love video content — it’s engaging, supports a variety of learning styles and helps them visualize complex concepts.

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University Business

MARCH 30, 2023

Many worry their teachers will be fired en masse and their courses and books will be policed. For years, students have come to this public liberal arts college on the western coast of Florida because they were self-described free thinkers. Students are concerned, too. Some fear for their physical safety.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The money will mostly go toward staffing – directors, program managers, academic advisers, and peer mentors – and student resources, such as books, school supplies, and transportation, Wheelock said. 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 22, 2022

Her book Native American Voices: A Reader continues to be a primary teaching tool in colleges throughout the country. in liberal arts from Colorado State University. Morris’s research portfolio includes publications on Native American media and the digital divide. Morris holds an M.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

In response to the post about the book collection, one reader asked plaintively, “How is it possible that with an entire boomer generation retiring in droves, there are no old books’ homes where they can send their banished collections?” ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile.

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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. Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Burgos has written two books, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, which examines the U.S.’s Burgos is an expert when it comes to U.S.

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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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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

She will have served the liberal arts college for seven years when she steps down. She will take this time to reorient herself around personal pursuits, including writing a scholarly book. Retiring Barbara Altmann – Franklin and Marshall College (Pa.)

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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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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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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. New College’s liberal arts structure allows students with an interest in theater to take a course, whether that’s in performance, dance, or technical theater.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The first thing that comes to mind is if it’s a proposal to reduce, does that mean a reduction in general education or the liberal arts and sciences at a time when that type of education is more critical than ever for addressing the wicked problems and grand challenges of which COVID-19 was emblematic?”

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

As accomplished as his tenure was, he was humble enough to credit his 12-year career at Concordia to its late former president for establishing a solid foundation that allowed him to seamlessly take the liberal arts school to the next level. “I

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

This also provided some direction for what a newly made Native American Art course should be like. How it Started The initial meeting was in person and included Laura Wind-Norton, then Dean of University Transfer and Liberal Arts, who deserves much credit for organizing the project and team.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

But thanks to doing things like writing books, editing the McSweeney’s Internet Tendency website, and now spending so many years with you all here, even those years were okay in terms of income, and better than okay – most of the time – in terms of happiness and job satisfaction.) Speaking as someone with not one (B.A.),

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

“This is sort of what every department, and I would say every college of liberal arts and humanities and social sciences—this is what we talk about in our administrative meetings,” said Jonathan Greenberg, English department chair at Montclair State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Their book is, in part, a highly persuasive critique of the “cost disease” argument advanced by William Baumol and William Bowen, that the rising cost of college tuition is (in Bowen’s words) “inexorable and unpreventable”: that it is impossible to increase productivity in higher education without reducing quality.

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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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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. Its education should be measured by its success in producing transformational, consequential leaders.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Today, the Music School is one of the leading summer festivals for aspiring professionals, as are the Schools of Dance, Theatre, and Art. A School of Theology began in 1881, followed by the School of Liberal Arts in 1885. Exams were administered, and at the end of four years, diplomas were awarded. The C.L.S.C. The C.L.S.C.

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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 longed for the small rituals of the classroom: a backpack unzipping, a pencil poised, a book spine splaying. This Halloween special is brought to you by the Teaching Professor.

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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

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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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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