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Liberal Arts and Servile Arts

Inside Higher Ed

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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Report: Fall Transfer Enrollment Remains in Decline in 2022

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% in Fall 2022), a trend mostly unaffected by the effects of the pandemic.

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Innovating at Scale

Inside Higher Ed

Which is why I was bowled over when I learned what a neighboring institution, Austin Community College, was up to. John’s College, decided to wage war against a cookie-cutter education. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

Inside Higher Ed

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 Some sectors saw marginal increases; enrollment at community colleges, for instance, grew by 0.4 and 2 percent. and 2 percent.

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Dual Enrollment and Changing Majors

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. In dual enrollment programs, high school students take college classes that count for both high school credit and college credit. Typically that will mean something like a liberal arts transfer major. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But growth in doctorates awarded is not uniform across areas of study: education and humanities disciplines are experiencing a decline in doctorates awarded, while the number of engineering and agricultural science doctorates grew by more than 30 percent over 10 years. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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Summer Sessions Are Integral to Student Success in Higher Education

MindMax

Camps ranging in focus from engineering to sports have always been a great way for colleges to build their brand, serve their community, and provide fun and academic opportunities for young people. Standard offerings that arose during this era include: Camps. First-year and bridge programs.