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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Campus Sonar

MARCH 5, 2025

Thorndike of Columbia University Teachers College, identified it as one of three types of intelligence in his 1920 Harpers Magazine article, Intelligence and Its Uses. Last month, I introduced social intelligence to a board of trustees of a small liberal arts college, focusing on its applications to advancement.

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University Business

AUGUST 27, 2024

based nonprofit magazine released its annual college ranking on Monday, aiming to combat the cog of mainstream narratives the publication believes are skewing the sector’s reputation. “In This could be a significant category for parents who are most concerned about costs in their children’s college search.

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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

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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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. We’re very proud of that.

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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. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

For Albertus Magnus College, a small liberal arts college in New Haven, Conn., Jeremy Peterson, a network analyst and media coordinator with the college’s IT team, helped found the college’s esports program. For more coverage from the CDW…

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Villanova has hosted other boot camps for hard-to-break-into careers, like consulting, or for students looking to translate their major skills into a field, like liberal arts or science students interested in financial services, Grubb says. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Image: A new automotive technology program at Coconino Community College, launched last fall, is on pause as campus leaders struggle to hire a full-time faculty member to keep it afloat. Nate Southerland, provost of Coconino Community College, said the college started the automotive technology program in response to local workforce needs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Musser Professor of Religious Studies, Emeritus, at Carleton College. Q: How do you rate colleges and universities on how they’re teaching critical thinking currently?  and Elizabeth W.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Image: Bloomfield College will become part of Montclair State University, the institutions announced Wednesday, formalizing a merger that had been in the works for months since Montclair State stepped up to help the financially struggling Bloomfield. Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Optional excursions are available for a fee.

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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. Those students are often especially trepidatious about studying a subject they’re not certain will pay off financially.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen enrolled in a college or university last semester, a 4.3 Freshman enrollment was up across all higher education sectors, with the greatest growth coming from community colleges, which gained 42,000 first-year students since last fall, an increase of 6.1 In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 ” Using another analogy, he compared colleges and universities to aircraft carriers that can’t quickly change direction.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Image: In the perpetual tug-of-war between openness and confidentiality in searches for new college and university presidents, secrecy has been winning in a rout. The recent search for a new president at Pitzer College offers a counterpoint.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

in a way that could also describe many women’s colleges across the country. “In fact, we are something of a unicorn, being still primarily a women’s college,” she said. Trinity’s College of Arts & Sciences, the institution’s largest program, remains all women.) and Canada.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. I had to get used to that.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. “Yay, that’s progress!”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Community college enrollment increased by 2.1 percent at nonprofit institutions and 2.2

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Their proposed solution is an unconventional one—to create a three-year bachelor’s program equivalent to a four-year college degree. Zemsky, who has long pursued the idea of a three-year degree, held court at Georgetown alongside Carrell with representatives from a dozen colleges in attendance.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Image: Richard Bland College of William & Mary is an anomaly in Virginia higher education. The public two-year college is slightly more selective than its peers across the commonwealth; it is not a member of the Virginia Community College System, and it is the only junior college in Virginia with residential housing.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Many came to the sleepy village in central Vermont because of the college’s sharp focus on environmental law and policy, as well as its progressive outlook on justice. Now, the only college in Vermont that offers a J.D. He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated. Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Saidat Ilo, liberal arts and social sciences. Nadya Pittendrigh, liberal arts and social sciences. Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 3 In-Article Advertisement High: 6 In-Article related stories: 9 In-Article Advertisement Low: 12 Qiao Xu, business.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Warren Throckmorton, a Grove City College psychology professor, told Zucker about the discrepancy back in 2009, according to emails Throckmorton provided Inside Higher Ed. Grove City, in Pennsylvania, is a Christian liberal arts college. Zucker, the editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior , told Inside Higher Ed.

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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. ” “I am one of many pretenure faculty who are leaving the college,” Bell said.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. Certainly, Kenyon College does.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. He is co-editor of The Christian College Phenomenon: Inside America’s Fastest Growing Institutions of Higher Learning (2011). “On Feb.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

With varying budgets, some of the 37 academic departments within the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences used to try to make faculty and staff computers last for up to a decade, says Dan Wood, associate director for user services in the college’s Applied Technologies for Learning in the Arts & Sciences program. (..)

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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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