University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2024

In these communities scattered across the nation, we find relics of the past and possibly the key to their future: small liberal arts colleges struggling to enroll enough students, and small to medium-sized manufacturers desperate for talent that will allow them to grow and innovate. Read more at Industry Week.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 5, 2023

Creating internships and focusing on short-term experiences has a big impact, the longtime undergraduate dean at the University of Chicago says.

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The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. We can ‘sell out’ — get a job in consulting or tech, our only chance at a work visa sponsorship,” an international humanities student wrote in the Daily Princetonian , Princeton University’s newspaper, quoting a fellow international student.

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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. Campus leaders will also arrange convenings of administrators from these liberal arts colleges throughout the two years.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 22, 2023

Simmons University, a women’s college in Boston, is considering cutting several liberal arts departments in an attempt to improve the college’s finances, The Boston Globe reported.

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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. the small private college has traditionally championed the classical values of a liberal arts education.

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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. What can we do?

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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. Astin , the Allan M.

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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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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

He has written previously for RNL about best financial practices for universities and has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. The news has not been good.

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Academe Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

BY HANK REICHMAN A bit over two years ago I posted to this blog a piece about a decision by Russia’s Prosecutor General to designate New York’s Bard College as an “undesirable organization.” Petersburg State University, offering a program of open enrollment liberal arts courses for students…

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A pair of Michigan liberal arts college made the top-10 ranking of similar colleges located in the Midwest, according to the Wall Street Journal and College Pulse. There are similar rankings of liberal arts colleges for each region in the United States. Albion College ranked No.

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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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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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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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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. The key is to paint a sharper picture of the enormous benefits that liberal arts actually deliver.

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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. Ohio State University. " Sept. 2022), 16-26.

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The Higher Ed Marketer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The liberal arts education has evolved. Dr. Lake Lambert began his tenure as the 16th President of Hanover College in 2015 and is the former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. Dr. Lambert's thoughts on the value of liberal arts curriculum .

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2024

University of Redlands Announces Another Merger jessica.blake@… Wed, 01/17/2024 - 03:00 AM The planned merger with Woodbury University, a small, private liberal arts institution in California, follows a wave of college mergers and closures in 2023. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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University Business

AUGUST 14, 2024

Catawba College got its week off on the right foot, announcing a $200 million anonymous gift to its endowment on Monday. The contribution is the third transformative gift in three years to the Salisbury-based liberal arts college, which has helped get the ball rolling. Nelson said. “We Read more from the Salisbury Post.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Danielle Ren Holley, current dean and professor of law at Howard University.

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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. Course sharing isn’t limited to liberal arts colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

Philander Smith College will be transforming into a university, the school announced Aug. As a university, the Little Rock liberal arts school will look to expand academic offerings and research opportunities.

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MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

Steven Mintz, author and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, posits that higher ed has strayed too far from its traditional purpose: providing a holistic liberal arts education that produces students who are “life-ready.” So it makes sense for those programs to focus more on career preparation.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When Alden Jones taught her first back-in-person college class during the pandemic, something surprising happened. But another large question looms over this story and much of the thinking Jones has been doing in the last few years regarding teaching: Are college students struggling with reading more than they did previously?

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University Business

MAY 30, 2024

Start spreading the news — Northeastern University is heading to New York, New York. The Boston-based university has entered into an agreement to merge with Marymount Manhattan College, a small liberal arts college on New York City’s Upper East Side, school officials announced Wednesday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

SUNY Old Westbury will be transitioning into a university, effective Jul. The name change will be subtle – from “State University of New York College at Old Westbury” to “State University of New York at Old Westbury.” 1, The school made the announcement Apr.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

New College of Florida students, parents, faculty and alumni are launching an online education platform aimed at preserving the spirit of the university, a public liberal arts college previously known for its flexible academic pathways and intellectual rigor.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A liberal arts and sciences college from New York has pledged to support 425 refugee and displaced students in the next four years as the UN seeks to reach its 15by30 target. In December, Bard represented the Open Society University Network at the second Global Refugee Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

DePauw University has received its largest gift yet in the form of $200 million in support of its strategic plan. Adding in this substantial gift, the university’s strategic plan has raised $240 million in major gifts. higher ed institution. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Unlike some other lists, the 125 best colleges and universities for future leaders remain a pretty exclusive club. “This wide array of leaders was still most likely to have attended an Ivy League university or a similarly prestigious school,” researcher Jeremy Gantz noted. leaders emerge from comes into view.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

College closures are showing no sign of slowing down in 2024 following a report from Implan, an economic software and analysis company, that revealed at least 20 colleges have shuttered so far this year. One reporter in the audience drew parallels between Talladega’s situation and Birmingham-Southern College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Pharr has been named president of Pitt Community College (PCC). Dr. Maria Pharr “I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as next president of Pitt Community College and look forward to contributing to the college’s legacy of leadership excellence,” said Pharr. Pharr starts the role Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Lee Lambert Lee Lambert has been named chancellor of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District. He serves as chancellor of Pima Community College in Arizona. Lambert holds a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts from The Evergreen State College and a juris doctor from Seattle University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

Petersen will become president of Hendrix College, effective June 2023. Petersen Petersen is a professor of political science and dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa (TU). This appointment makes her the second woman to lead the school. Dr. Karen K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2023

Chris Gilmer will become president of West Virginia University Potomac State College, effective immediately, MetroNews reported. Dr. Chris Gilmer Gilmer will also continue as tenured professor in WVU’s Division of Liberal Arts. Gilmer has been interim president of the school for the past nine months. Gordon Gee said.

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