Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

March 3, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of the College of Wooster is the fourth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. states and 76 countries. Notable Alumni: J.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ron DeSantis said he would strip accreditation from colleges and universities with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, MSNBC reported. He said he wanted to shape schools to be like the New College of Florida, which has undergone controversial changes since he put right-wing ideologues in charge. As president, Florida Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Borough of Manhattan Community College and the Institute for Justice and Opportunity at John Jay College of Criminal Justice have teamed up to create a new degree-granting Prison-to-College Pathways (P2CP) program for incarcerated students at Otisville Correctional Facility in upstate New York.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Safa Zaki will become president of Bowdoin College, effective Jul. McCoy Professor of Psychology at Williams College. I am elated by Safa Zaki’s appointment,” said Trustee Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, professor in the Jenkins Department of Biophysics and vice dean in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. The key is to paint a sharper picture of the enormous benefits that liberal arts actually deliver.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities.”

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

Policymakers will most likely focus on the return on investment, or ROI, of college programs in 2025 to appease taxpayers who are skeptical of higher education. One state House bill introduced in 2023 attempted to let lawmakers ban certain majors they deemed liberal, or “woke.” Brian Harrison.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although community college may be regularly associated as an equitable pathway to bachelor’s degrees, wealthier students typically capitalize on the opportunity. As for low-income students, a new report from the Department of Education details how infrequently their college hopes pan out.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

For college algebra, the underprepared students must take a developmental course called Intermediate Algebra. To help more students complete their college math requirements, higher education must stop using the student-deficiency mentality and start adopting a student-growth mentality. And the list goes on.

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University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

We are now well past the six-month mark for the delayed delivery of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) information to college campuses and students. Thousands of aspiring college students and their families face profound uncertainty and confusion. As a result, some may never enter college. Some may not recover.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Antioch College President Jane Fernandes was elated when she discovered her college would be formally designated as a Federal Work College by the Department of Education. Nearly 50% of Sterling College’s 2018 graduates earned their degree without accruing any debt. Berea College in Berea (Ky.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Jo Allen, the retiring president of Meredith College, enjoys the administrative part of higher ed. I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis has appointed six new board members to the New College of Florida, a step towards turning the school into a more conservative institution, the Herald-Tribune reported. "It said in a statement, referring to conservative Hillsdale College. "It said in a statement, referring to conservative Hillsdale College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. The program got approval last spring.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students at the liberal arts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. ” As a liberal arts institution, UMN Morris has completely different values that focus on buffing students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

If Blackwood’s course sounds like a divergence from the humdrum small-group discussions that college English courses bring to mind, well, you probably haven’t taken a college English class recently. “We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The grant – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – is a first-of-its-kind awarded to a historically Black college or university (HBCU) through the NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences , Office of Integrative Activities , and HBCU Excellence in Research (EiR) integrated programs, for this type of research. Gilliam, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. 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. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Image: After a missed bond payment and months of uncertainty, Cazenovia College will close. College officials remained tight-lipped, telling Inside Higher Ed earlier this fall only that “discussions continue to take place” on the outstanding bond payment. Now college leaders have made a clear decision about its future.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

Most drastically, it eliminated the entire World Languages department. However, neither these negative consequences nor the World Languages department’s praiseworthy productivity could avoid their demise. The institution’s board responded by dropping 28 of its majors and laying off 143 of its faculty. How is this possible?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Colleges pay tribute to diversity yet largely offer a cookie-cutter approach to education. Work colleges like Berea and Paul Quinn require all students to perform campus jobs to defray part of their education’s cost. John’s College, decided to wage war against a cookie-cutter education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No On Wednesday morning, the board of trustees voted to close the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. The post US ambassador urges more study opportunities for US students in India appeared first on The PIE News.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Officials at Oxford College of Emory University, one of the university’s two liberal arts colleges, in 2019 identified a need for a more positive campus climate. Looking ahead: Hernandez describes the current stage of the process as the second iteration, as it moves from students to the college community.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A second tradition, originally associated with Oxford and Cambridge, emphasized the transmission of culture and character development in a residential college setting. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university. Priorities conflict.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, a small Catholic institution in New Hampshire, will close at the end of the academic year due to low enrollment and financial challenges, WMUR 9 reported. The local ABC affiliate reported that Magdalen currently enrolls about 60 students.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says. in African American studies and sociology from EIU; and an Associate of Arts in African American studies from Olive-Harvey Community College. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. These degrees allowed Njumbe the opportunity to transfer to a four-year institution to study for his bachelor’s degree, said Dr. Jack Bloom, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at IU and one of Njumbe’s instructors.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Offering courses on subjects ranging from chemistry to linguistics, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences encompasses 37 academic departments.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

For the last decade, computer science majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. Colleges and universities have slowly begun to launch undergraduate degrees in AI. Cornell University : Cornell’s Department of Computer Science has been a pioneer in AI research since the 1990s.

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