Continuous Learning Institute

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

As a fierce defender of community colleges and broad-access institutions, it's time to sharpen our critical thinking even more. That said, countless college practitioners have experienced the negative impact of flawed research firsthand. word counts on compliance documents) to make sweeping assumptions about your practice ? -Is

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

In the business of running an entire liberal arts college in South Carolina, the most cherished metric to study Furman’s success is student satisfaction. Clearly, not like when I was in college.” But colleges are also filled with curious students who are taking their time to discover themselves.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Duiker, author of Major Problems in World History, Volume I and Volume II , 1e 2025 Major Problems in World History,” 1e is a comprehensive source for documents and secondary essays dealing with a broad sweep of world history. Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our data affirm the well-documented decline of the humanities academic job market over the previous decade, revealing that the number of assistant professors at Ph.D.-granting liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. Going Public.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

Still knottier challenges arise in creating a workable system of governance and forging an academic ethos that can help the new institutions leaders collectively make intelligent decisions and respond to the needs of the country and region where their college or university is located. Yet this process raises additional thorny questions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There, students get the chance to do research, conduct oral histories, work with community leaders, and help document traumatic and often-silenced refugee stories. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

The notion that the nation’s colleges and universities are failing to prepare their students for the world of work appears to no longer be a matter of debate: it has become conventional wisdom. The problem is that work-integrated teaching methods, such as problem-based learning, are rather difficult to execute in the classroom.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! In response to the piece about secret shoppers, one former secret shopper wrote with a story of a time that it took him seven continuous hours, in person, to register for a class at a college, and that was with skipping financial aid.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

But it moved from a fringe phenomenon to the mainstream, at least temporarily, during the COVID-19 pandemic, as colleges brought students back to their physical campuses but needed flexibility so that students who were sick or otherwise unable to be in the classroom could continue their educations. They provided the basics.

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Helix Education

MAY 16, 2024

When used optimally, the data can offer a strong return on investment by informing retention/student success efforts, providing the student perspective for strategic planning, documenting the priorities for your institutional accreditation activities, and identifying your strengths to promote in recruitment materials.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the same time, it’s worth acknowledging that the document contains some tensions and elisions that are typical of such endeavors. 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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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

A recent name change from Converse College to Converse University, a shift to a coeducational model, and changes in leadership (to name a few) have had impacts on our campus community in spite of COVID-19. As a small, private, liberal arts institution in Spartanburg, South Carolina, our resources are not infinite.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

The majority of the college leaders transitioning in or out of the president position in the past two weeks have demonstrated excellence in one of higher education’s top executive positions. The newly appointed president has also programmed pathway programs for students on the other side of the spectrum—Maine high schoolers.

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EAB

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The shelf life of the resulting documents shortens with every academic term. As leadership prioritizes featuring every consulted constituency in the final document, single ideas become difficult to focus on, producing an unprioritized, unfunded wish list. 3 Realities Facing Liberal Arts Colleges in DEIJ Efforts.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

How Carleton College's CTO increased staff diversity in IT. Insights from a conversation with Janet Scannell, CTO at Carleton College. It is well-documented that job descriptions in predominantly male industries (including IT) tend to include male-coded terminology. stands for Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

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WCET Frontiers

JANUARY 4, 2023

Utilizing Accreditation Documentation to Demonstrate Compliance with C-RAC Guidelines. The university is a private, non-profit, liberal arts institution that offers undergraduate and graduate and professional degrees, including medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, and law.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2018

Part 3: Improving Higher Education Governance Improve your Higher Education Governance to lift your university or college up to higher levels of success. An example of what NOT to do as a board trustee is playing out at Mount Ida College as the schools trustees voted to close the Newton, MA campus in the face of its dire financial condition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There, students get the chance to do research, conduct oral histories, work with community leaders, and help document traumatic and often-silenced refugee stories. “We

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The report includes the specific case of the hostile takeover of New College, describing it as a blueprint for potential future encroachments on public colleges and universities across the United States. This incident is viewed not just as an isolated event but as a potential template for future actions in other institutions.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. Hasn’t this whole conversation exploded, or at the very least fundamentally challenged, the conventional idea of a university campus?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

Podcast Highlights The University Learning Goals page on the Villanova website contains searchable student career outcome information from the past five years that can be sorted by college and major. Some Villanova schools and colleges offer a required class on career and PD. This culture is also instilled at the faculty level.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) has recently issued a statement on board independence and leadership, marking a critical moment for academic institutions. Board Independence: Boards should govern independently according to their foundational documents and legal frameworks.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So I guess an excellent example of that is in fact in your home in the US where we look at the example of Wheelock College which of course was a fantastic provider of education. It’s not just having like a fancy logo or, changing delivery on your strategy document. 00:07:45] Catherine: Yeah. and Drumm, I think that’s true.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: The King’s College has long relied on the generosity of billionaires. Bill Hwang, a trader who earned billions on Wall Street, pumped several million into the college before his 2022 arrest on fraud charges. Now another billionaire, Peter Chung, may hold the key to the fate of the King’s College.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Graff, an expert on literacy who also writes widely on colleges and universities. Just as colleges need to promote students’ cognitive development or disciplinary training, these institutions need to nurture their physical, social, emotional, personal, and ethical growth.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” More from UB: UPenn leadership destabilized after president, board chair resign New College of Florida: A preview of the DeSantis mission The report outlines how the DeSantis-appointed New College of Florida Board of Trustees ousted the president and helped oversee the appointment of his political allies into executive administrative roles.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Despite this, 53% of student respondents at our two-year college have indicated they would be interested in research opportunities and identified far more benefits than barriers.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Despite this, 53% of student respondents at our two-year college have indicated they would be interested in research opportunities and identified far more benefits than barriers.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

This remarkable achievement sent shockwaves throughout the education sector, especially among teachers in schools and colleges. For example, a typical college classroom today does not appear much different from one in the last century; they both revolve around a center-staged professor lecturing to a few-rows-deep audience.

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Continuous Learning Institute

JULY 28, 2023

I know that lots of people in our colleges wish that were true, but it's not. Somewhere between one in seven and one in nine of all first time community college students are participating in very short term course taking. We need to figure out ways to make education work better for those folks who have more in their lives than school.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Inside Higher Ed : What most jumped out to each of you about the potential sale of the University of Phoenix to Arkansas, and what does that potential sale tell us about the broader landscape for for-profit colleges and universities? I love community colleges. Your completion rates are going to be bad. I write about them all the time.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

How Colleges Are Turning Faculty Surveys Into Institutional Strategy COACHE operates on a three-year engagement cycle that begins well before survey data is collected. How Georgia State and UT Arlington Used COACHE Data to Drive Change Some institutions have documented their use of survey data to support transparency and follow-through.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

How are colleges and universities responding to financial pressures? Today Ill continue that line for the reasons Ive previously given: to document key stories in higher education; to witness human suffering; to point to possible directions for academia to take. Last year I tracked cuts and crises afflicting dozens of campuses.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 15, 2024

Although former President Trump has disavowed Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation document calls for the education department to be dismantled and urges an evaluation of national security-vulnerable visa programs. Another talking point (for Republicans and many Democrats alike) is that a college degree is only important to get job training.

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