Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Any recent gains in salary for full-time faculty members have been swallowed up by soaring inflation. Full-time faculty saw a 4% bump for the year ending fall 2022, the largest single-year gain since 1991. It’s really hard to track data on adjunct faculty. But skyrocketing inflation caused a 2.4%

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Whitman prides itself on a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1, facilitating personalized education. Popular disciplines include Environmental Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Economics, and Biology.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although most colleges and universities are scrambling to moderate precisely how students should be allowed to use it, faculty and administrators are inviting its use systemwide. “If used appropriately, AI can do some of the things we pay college consultants to do.”

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University Business

AUGUST 9, 2024

Under McNulty’s tenure, the Christian liberal arts college saw applications hit a two-decade high, and endowment and fundraising levels doubled, TribLIVE reports. John Sygielski – Harrisburg Area Community College (Penn.) Young President Wallace Community College-Dothan Linda C.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

The reasons are obvious: Because that’s the education that most faculty and administrators received. Because it’s in the interest of faculty who are trained in specific disciplines. Which is why I was bowled over when I learned what a neighboring institution, Austin Community College, was up to.

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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. an increasingly popular tourist destination near the Grand Canyon, has repeatedly scared off faculty candidates for this position and others.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Most recently, Florida passed a law exempting public college presidential searches from the state’s open records law, and Purdue University hired Mitch Daniels’s replacement on the same day the university announced its longtime president’s retirement.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. Degrees of the Future provides $1.5

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

The institution’s board responded by dropping 28 of its majors and laying off 143 of its faculty. More from UB: How community colleges can build a new teacher pipeline While cuts to language education have been reported throughout the country, most have happened at rural and less selective institutions. How is this possible?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

She possesses an associate degree earned in her early 20’s from her local community college. The plight of the place-bound student and the existence of education deserts offer another compelling equity-based argument for expansion of the community college baccalaureate degree. Lawrence A. Roughly 6% to 12% of the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. They develop college-level writing and synthesis skills in an applied context, with the unwritten rules of the various workplaces revealing themselves over time and through comparison. In senior administration, you’re forced by circumstance to be more fox than hedgehog.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. He notes: – If your kid attends a community college, they're going to take Introduction to Philosophy with me, a doctored and published professor, with (blessedly) hours of graduate training in pedagogy. He’s a philosophy professor and a dean.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” Equity is essential as college student demographics change. Declines during the pandemic have been steepest among community college students and African American and Latinx males, Lynn Pasquerella , president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, points out.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. The long-lasting effects of COVID-19 policies on the academic marketplace are not yet known.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” Harsh, but perhaps true. ” Ugh. I certainly wouldn’t.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

Despite the fact that many community colleges and regional public institutions are relatively affordable, the public narrative is dominated by sticker shock from elite universities. Before that I was research faculty. Right, because most people with a liberal arts background do very well long term, so.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The institution’s Internationalisation Lab subcommittees include focus on International Recruitment & Retention, Education Abroad, International Research, Scholarship, & Partnerships, Curriculum & Co-curriculum and Faculty & Staff Support. International recruitment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. in history from the University of Michigan.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Some faculty members were incensed. ” Bruce Strouble, an adjunct professor at Tallahassee Community College and Florida A&M University for over a decade, said he was “outraged” by the statement. But these kinds of restrictions, no matter how vague, make faculty members afraid to teach certain subjects.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

It is incumbent upon us to address the need to meet this population of students where they are by changing the delivery model, cost and price structure, and to continue to evolve the curriculum to include both a core of liberal arts courses with professionally oriented concentrations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Though this population is still small, the tens of thousands of traditional-age undergraduates big online universities are now enrolling would be eagerly welcomed by the many four-year residential campuses and community colleges that are seeing their enrollments fall. The Numbers.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

OpenAI mastermind Sam Altman and social media pioneer Jason Citron are just a few A-list investors backing Campus, a completely online community college reimagining the two-year experience for students and faculty. At the K12 level, too, online school alternatives are beginning to percolate.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I Just as most college administrators were never trained in management, most professors were never trained in teaching.

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University Business

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Liberal arts colleges can market their smaller scale to attract students looking for more hands-on support. You just have to be thoughtful about how you are going to leverage faculty to connect with students.” ” Faculty can also expand office hours to more than academic-related matters.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Blog: Beyond Transfer More than 130 four-year colleges and universities with the nation’s highest graduation rates have come together as members of the American Talent Initiative (ATI), committing to a common goal: to enroll, support, and graduate 50,000 additional students from low- and moderate-income households by 2025.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. The work done included faculty from all over the country who worked to define, test, and revise the rubrics to help focus assessment work in meaningful ways. In fact, pathways work very well for students who start at four-year colleges, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But it’s substantially more expensive than the cost of face-to-face, interactive learning at a community college or at many broad access regional or urban publics. The average per credit cost a community college is $158 and $266 for in-state students at the University of Florida and $372 at the University of Texas at Austin.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How a Small College Overcame Student List Source Volatility with Cappex Candidates Small Private College in the Midwest with 1,000+ Undergraduate Students About Students were forced to forego standardized testing in favor of social distancing after the onset of the pandemic.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. But the general public doesn’t know.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

When it comes to the causes of our nation’s supposed failure to prepare students for the workplace, blame invariably settles on one group of professionals—the faculty. Consequently, faculty must be seen as essential allies—and not solely as recalcitrant obstacles—in pursuing career readiness across the curriculum.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Outside of the liberal arts, programs in risk include business, journalism/communication, education, nursing, and family & consumer sciences. The university said 27% of the faculty and staff positions were already vacant.” Wesley College is now DSU’s downtown campus.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Outside of the liberal arts, programs in risk include business, journalism/communication, education, nursing, and family & consumer sciences. The university said 27% of the faculty and staff positions were already vacant.” Wesley College is now DSU’s downtown campus.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. The work done included faculty from all over the country who worked to define, test, and revise the rubrics to help focus assessment work in meaningful ways. In fact, pathways work very well for students who start at four-year colleges, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The College of Marin posted heat warnings on Twitter last Thursday telling students of expected temperatures at or above 90 degrees through Tuesday. ” the community college tweeted. Some faculty members have also gone out of their way to create air-conditioned areas where students can hang out, he said.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the next five years, New College of Florida plans to become the best liberal arts college in America. Heavier than the crown is the price tag: The newly revamped conservative college , home to fewer than 1,000 students, is seeking $400 million, according to a business plan released last week.

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University Business

AUGUST 23, 2024

Renowned for his faculty and research focus, Garimella raised the budget of Vermont’s research branch by 23% in an effort to reach R1 status, Seven Days reports. Retiring Barbara Altmann – Franklin and Marshall College (Pa.) She will have served the liberal arts college for seven years when she steps down.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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