Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Now, I see this through a new lens as my husband, Richard, and I have made our first big philanthropic investment in higher education: supporting one of our nation’s small liberal arts colleges. It is no longer enough to leave college with a diploma in hand. And I went on to earn a master’s from USC, as well.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

Belmont University President Greg Jones may have crafted the most authentic initiative for the Tennessee-based liberal arts college after striking a unique partnership with global superstar legend Dolly Parton. However, the timeless power of teaching a liberal arts education isnt lost on Jones either.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 14, 2025

It echoes in the lives of disabled people, especially Deaf and neurodivergent people, whose insights are essential to many fields in school and college education, design, and accessibility, yet who are too often excluded from schools, jobs, and public life. increasingly precarious. It welcomes them home.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D. in counseling & human development, University of Georgia Career mentors: Dr. Darris Means, Clemson University; Dr. Tiffany J.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. The boundaries of the “liberal arts” change over time and place. Classically, Orzel is correct: physics is a liberal art. And he’s right.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. 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.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. As one of the nation’s few remaining all-male colleges, Wabash upholds a tradition of academic rigor, personal responsibility, and close-knit community engagement.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

March 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of Whitman College is the sixth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 14, 2025

April 14, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of Tuskegee University is the ninth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Programs include Engineering, Architecture, Business, Education, and Nursing & Allied Health, as well as a renowned College of Veterinary Medicine.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JULY 27, 2023

By Helen Huiskes Alessandro Gottardo for The Chronicle Some humanities faculty members saw unexpected reprieves, but many remain pessimistic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State is the principal investigator, and Dr. Gilliam, Jr.

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Campus Technology

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The University of Minnesota (UMN)'s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has announced a partnership with Helios Consulting to offer graduates a chance to gain human resource technology skills through paid employment and training in its Rise Program, an apprenticeship designed to prepare students for a career in the Workday ecosystem.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. in economics as it does in humanities fields in most American universities?

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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.

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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. A psychologist and cognitive scientist, her research centers on the human mind and how people divide the world into categories. “In She will be the first woman to lead the school. McCoy and John T.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As colleges and universities across the country face declining enrollments caused by rising tuition costs, changing job market demands, and demographic shifts, institutions are getting creative with solutions. The number of humanities degrees has declined by 14% in the past decade, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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Higher Education Inquirer

DECEMBER 16, 2024

There is little humanity in the liberal arts and humanities, social sciences, fine arts and other disciplines, as they are taught in much of US higher education. So much of what is learned as an undergrad is impractical and unimportant to students, especially outside of one's major or minor.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business.

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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. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums? New tools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Anne McCall will become the 13th president of the College of Wooster, effective July 2023, which will make her the second woman in the role. Dr. Anne McCall "I'm honored and thrilled to be chosen as the next president of the College of Wooster," McCall said. in French literature from the University of Strasbourg in France. .

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D. In New York City?

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

Rhodes College has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to create a new program that will focus on researching and developing curricula related to racial equity, discrimination, and justice in Memphis and the Mid-South region.

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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.” Anna Eskamani, a Democrat, told the Phoenix.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Civil rights leader Maya Wiley will be the keynote speaker at the New College of Florida (NCF) graduating Class of 2023’s alternative commencement ceremony May 18, the Herald Tribune reported. Maya Wiley Wiley – civil rights activist, attorney, and professor – is the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

President Doug Hicks graduated from Davidson College at a time not too far separated from when the small private liberal arts college still capped enrollment of women. Alumni giving percentages and engagement consistently rank in the top five among all colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Officials said the layoffs are the resulted from the elimination of the College of General Studies (CGS) at the university’s Waukesha campus, where students could earn an associate degree in liberal arts — such as in arts and humanities, math and natural sciences, and social sciences and business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school. According to U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced partnerships with four new Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers. TRHT Campus Centers comprise community colleges, liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, faith-based institutions, and large research universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Adrian College president Jeff Docking has some innovative ideas for higher education leaders battling enrollment pressures and market forces. That allowed the college to build out new majors, which in turn brought in students and revenue. Rize was founded in 2019, and Adrian began using the platform the following year.

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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. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. million Andrew W.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

More from UB: How community colleges can build a new teacher pipeline While cuts to language education have been reported throughout the country, most have happened at rural and less selective institutions. However, neither these negative consequences nor the World Languages department’s praiseworthy productivity could avoid their demise.

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