Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

A case study for small liberal arts colleges This really hit home for me earlier this year when I was invited to represent the university that I work for at the inauguration of a new president at my alma mater, West Virginia Wesleyan College. The book highlighted 40 colleges across the U.S.

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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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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

MAY 28, 2025

Engineering vs. Liberal Arts prospects) will highlight different selling points. Write Compelling CTAs Be specific and action-driven: Apply Now Book a Call Join the Webinar Explore more about email CTA best practices 3. More on this later.) Academic interests: What program or major are they interested in? Local or out-of-state?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26. Ohio State University.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

One private liberal arts college overhauled by Florida Gov. And last fall, the school was recently criticized for improperly dumping hundreds of books related to LGBTQIA+ topics. .” The bill, however, was heavily amended following pushback.

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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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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. The American Association of Colleges and Universities is a 109-year-old organization devoted to liberal education, with more than 1,000 campuses as members. Ness Book Award.

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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 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

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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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

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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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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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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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. A former foreign service officer with assignments in Taiwan and South Vietnam, he is the author of several books on East Asia. He earned a Ph.D. in East Asian history at Georgetown University in 1968. She earned her Ph.D.

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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

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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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 27, 2025

Drawing on insights from her recent book, What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions , Sturm reframes DEI as an adaptive, systems-level process tied directly to institutional resilience and the ability to fulfill higher educations mission. 00:03:32] Overview of the Book: ‘What Might Be.’

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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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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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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! Middlebrow culture also contributed to the midcentury illusion of a unitary society. Joseph Horwitz’s recent Dvo?ák's

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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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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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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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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Let me note at the outset that this new book, Being a Scholar , is as much teacherly as it is academic. I urge you to read Professor Labaree’s latest book or to follow his website , which sparkles with insights about schooling, history, meritocracy, the craft of writing, and higher education. You should too.

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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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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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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

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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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

To what degree are these new start-ups reflections of a distinctly American approach to the liberal arts, and to what degree do they reflect local traditions and aspirations? The 2020 policy document validated the liberal arts approach within Indian education and urged its broader implementation across the country.

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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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Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 15, 2025

I then fed a chunk of text from the Book of Genesis into ZeroGPT and it came back as 93.33 Two and a half years later, students at large state schools, the Ivies, liberal-arts schools in New England, universities abroad, professional schools, and community colleges are relying on AI to ease their way through every facet of their education.

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