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Why these leaders want to secure the liberal arts in a digital world

University Business

Land-grant universities are building new colleges , HBCUs are racing to secure better funding and even liberal arts colleges are reviewing their general education curriculum. Georgia Tech has been at the forefront of melding often siloed disciplines of the humanities, arts and social sciences with STEM.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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President moves: This state flagship finds its next president amid heap of retirements

University Business

Kelting is ramping up student success initiatives and scholarship offers to attract regional graduating high schoolers. 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.

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Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. was inspired not by the Oxbridge tutorials but by Columbia University’s great books curriculum. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? Honors 2.0.

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Making Theater More Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

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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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

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.