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College Institution Liberal Arts 
Higher Ed Dive
NOVEMBER 10, 2023
The small liberal arts institution will need to overcome long-term underfunding challenges to reach 1,200 students by 2028, President Richard Corcoran said.
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Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
The liberal arts institution said the rankings enterprise equates institutional wealth and privilege with academic quality.
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University Business
DECEMBER 17, 2024
The value of a college degree from a small liberal arts school is often tied to a more intimate, meaningful higher education experience.Global education is garnering increasing interest, making study abroad an essential component for institutions striving to attract a shrinking pool of prospective students.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Keystone College—a small, liberal arts college in Northeastern Pennsylvania—had its accreditation withdrawn this week by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Keystone College The school, which has about 1,100 students, pledged to appeal the decision.
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Higher Ed Dive
MAY 2, 2024
The liberal arts institution is cutting $7 million from its budget and refocusing around eight in-demand majors.
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Higher Ed Dive
MARCH 10, 2023
Hampshire College has promised matching tuition for these students, who say Gov. Ron DeSantis has marred their liberal arts experience.
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Higher Ed Dive
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
From liberal arts colleges to massive public flagships, institutions of all kinds are moving to comply with changing federal expectations.
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Higher Ed Dive
DECEMBER 20, 2022
The private Alabama liberal arts institution is requesting public funding to give it “breathing room to operate.”
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Higher Ed Data Stories
OCTOBER 4, 2023
It shows the undergraduate college of people who received doctorates in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022. As you can see from the top-level view, UC Berkeley produces more graduates who go onto a doctorate than any other institution in the US. in Chemistry (Hope College). This visualization, of course is interactive.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2025
Marist College, the private school in Poughkeepsie, New York, has announced it will become Marist University effective later this month, marking a significant milestone in its nearly century-long history. 1 among peer institutions by a U.S. President Dr. Kevin C. Department of State-sponsored report.
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University Business
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 3, 2024
For two decades, the gradual decline of the liberal arts degree has been met with both resignation and celebration. Dr. Nicole Polen-Petit But, to misquote Mark Twain, reports of the liberal arts’ demise have been greatly exaggerated. And this is where liberal arts graduates excel.
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Inside Higher Ed
DECEMBER 9, 2022
Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. The courses are co-taught by Vassar and community college faculty. Vassar professors “really don’t teach community college students usually,” she said.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 11, 2025
Colleges and universities across the country are preparing to celebrate the legacy of a civil rights icon who championed integration and transformed Americas Rev. In fact, some college leaders say that with the continued attack on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, now is the time more than ever to remember Kings contributions.
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HEPI
SEPTEMBER 24, 2024
Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. If nothing else, the common wisdom is clear about what a student should avoid: a course in the liberal arts. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance? It disregards the true value of a liberal arts degree.
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University Business
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberal arts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.
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University Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 1, 2025
Heather Shotton In a historic move that signals a significant step toward reconciliation with its past, Fort Lewis College (FLC) has named Dr. Heather J. Shotton as the sole finalist for the institution's presidency. The selection of an Indigenous leader for FLC is particularly significant given the institution's complicated history.
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Edu Alliance Journal
APRIL 21, 2025
April 21, 2025, by Dean Hoke : With this profile of Davidson College, I complete the tenth and final entry in my series exploring small colleges across the United States. This journey has deepened my appreciation for the distinct contributions and lasting impact of these diverse institutions.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2024
Notre Dame College (NDC) in South Euclid, Ohio, has announced it will close its doors at the end of spring 2024. The NDC Board of Trustees secured agreements with nine partner colleges and universities to help current NDC students in good standing continue their college careers through a Teach-Out program or as a transfer student.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2025
The salary growth varied by institution type, with public institutions showing the strongest gains at 3.9%, followed by private-independent institutions at 3.6%, and religiously affiliated institutions at 3.0%. colleges and universities, representing approximately 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty members.
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University Business
DECEMBER 16, 2024
A flurry of colleges and universities have shuttheir doors following the pandemic, and 2024 didn’t show signs of slowing down. University Business will continue to monitor the changing landscape of college closings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the coming year and beyond. If not, the institution shuts its doors.
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University Business
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
President Laurie Patton likes this framework, but in her eighth year leading Middlebury College and observing the changing world around her, she believes a new pillar has sprouted. “It takes courage to be an institution of education, and it takes courage to develop it in other people,” she says. .
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University Business
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
24) College closings are expected to uptick over the next five years due to the demographic cliff, and Northland College may be the first of 2025. This page will be continuously updated as University Business monitors the changing landscape of college closings, as well as mergers and acquisitions, in the coming year and beyond.
Higher Ed Data Stories
DECEMBER 23, 2022
There are a couple of problems with using that paper to prop up this argument, however: First, the study included about 200 liberal arts colleges, and nowhere does it suggest that the conclusions can be generalized, or even that the results are reflective of reality every where else.
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Higher Ed Dive
MAY 30, 2023
Middle States Commission on Higher Education said it is yanking accreditation partly because the liberal arts institution is in “imminent danger of closing.”
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University Business
APRIL 2, 2025
(Updated: April 2, 2025) With college closings expected to uptick over the next five years due to the demographic cliff, two small regional colleges avoided shutting their doors by merging with larger institutions. The college closings and mergers of 2025 Rosemont College (Penn.) Cornish College of the Arts (Wash.)
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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. That desire to understand the world only grew from there, and she became the first in her family to attend college.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
At Agnes Scott College, first-year students are given the opportunity to take their first step into becoming global citizens through its Global Journeys program. American educational institutions, and bring some improvement.' And as a liberal arts college, we know we have a great academic curriculum.
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Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 29, 2024
A Clash Over Core Curriculum at New College of Florida Josh Moody Tue, 10/29/2024 - 03:00 AM Faculty say administrators at the public liberal arts institution are changing core course offerings in a way that is ideologically driven and harmful to students. Byline(s) Josh Moody
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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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Inside Higher Ed
JUNE 26, 2024
Eastern Nazarene College, a private, nonprofit Christian liberal arts institution in Massachusetts, said late Tuesday that it would close and transition to “a new educational enterprise” to carry on its legacy.
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Edu Alliance Journal
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
February 17, 2025, by Dean Hoke: This profile of Earlham College is the second in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. For the 2023-24 academic year, U.S.
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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.
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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 31, 2025
In what officials describe as a response to "the changing higher education landscape," Rosemont College and Villanova University have announced a merger agreement that will eventually see the smaller Catholic institution absorbed into its larger neighbor on Philadelphia's Main Line. Villanova University President Rev.
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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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Inside Higher Ed
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
When conservative leaders took over Florida’s only public liberal arts institution, Hampshire College officials knew they had to help. Now they’re welcoming the first cohort of New College defectors. AMHERST, Mass., My girlfriend’s mom set me up with a snow jacket.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education
JUNE 18, 2024
Nearly half of the state's two-year liberal-arts institutions are being shuttered. By Eric Kelderman Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK Thomas M. Nelson, county executive in Outagamie County, Wis. It wasn't supposed to be this way.
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University Business
NOVEMBER 11, 2024
College closures steamed through 2024 , and more institutions may find themselves in the crosshairs next year as declining numbers of K12 students trickle into higher ed. However, one private liberal arts school has transformed its enrollment strategy by bucking its traditional paradigm. Despite its lean $15.8
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
The announcement on Tuesday marks a potential new chapter for the institution, which has faced enrollment decline and financial challenges in recent years. Whirl, who currently serves as president of Augusta Technical College, has built a reputation for strengthening workforce education programs and fostering community partnerships.
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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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Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 5, 2024
The president and Board of Trustees at Northland College voted Thursday to declare financial exigency after failing to raise enough funds to stay open.
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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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