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President Jones, Dolly Parton and the magic of ‘traditioned innovation’

University Business

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. Listen here.

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The Future is Bright for Indiana University's 15-Year-Old Graduate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. The rule is you can’t go to college until you have a high school degree. He finally found a home at the 21st Century Charter School in Gary, Indiana, where he became a high school freshman at 11 years old.

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The U.S. News exodus never happened. How did the top ranking service outlast naysayers?

University Business

News & World Report released its latest college rankings yesterday, and colleges are touting their improvements, prevailing against the barrage of criticism it received at the turn of the year. In one month’s time, Rhode Island School of Design, Colorado College and Bard College (N.Y.) all dropped out.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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$100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College

University Business

This year marks 100 since Spelman Baptist Seminary became Spelman College, the all-women HBCU in the heart of Atlanta, Ga., On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. Spelman College is just one of the several prestigious HBCUs in Atlanta. which we know today.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A.

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Can a ‘degree’ hold its value?

HEPI

The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. In both, a student ‘apprentice’ ‘graduated’ gradus by gradus , ‘degree’ by ‘degree’, to become a Bachelor then a Master of Arts. The London Medical Schools were clamouring for that right for themselves.)

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