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Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberalarts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberalarts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.
laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. ” That is, undergraduate programs with fewer than 12 students per full-time faculty member over a period of five years are no longer accepting new students.
More from UB: Computerscience degrees: How demand has both reduced and improved Northland College has operated at a deficit for eight years, The Minnesota Star Tribune reports. Year founded: 1946 University of the Arts (Penn.) The University of the Arts Board of Directors voted on June 1 to close the institution.
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.
For the last decade, computerscience majors have become highly prized by many colleges and universities. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computerscience, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences.
The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberalarts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberalarts degrees took umbrage. The key is to paint a sharper picture of the enormous benefits that liberalarts actually deliver.
This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London.
Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberalarts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. million faculty hiring initiative to support the growing fields. It’s proven to be the right call. Degrees of the Future provides $1.5
million in faculty salaries while increasing its student-faculty ratio, Allegheny College in Pennsylvania charged a task force with reviewing its academic programs. They represent a pretty major transfer of power from faculty to administration over curricular matters.”
Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a LiberalArts College.” Ascertaining the Online Learning Behaviors and Formative Assessments Affecting Students’ Academic Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a ComputerScience Course.”
” A faculty member immediately spoke up and stated emphatically, “Everything!” The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one.
It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., The dean of the Becker School reports administratively to the provost office and is subject to all the normal graduate and undergraduate governance review boards, while the school itself has a designated faculty and its own academic leadership.
Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a LiberalArts College.” Ascertaining the Online Learning Behaviors and Formative Assessments Affecting Students’ Academic Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a ComputerScience Course.”
Most faculty prefer to teach courses squarely within their discipline and preferably in their area of specialization. This discipline- and faculty-centric approach discourages the kind of collaboration across departmental lines that is needed to create more synergistic, coherent or integrated degree pathways.
This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computerscience department to be thinking about such things. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computerscience and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. And why not?
They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberalarts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.
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.
The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide. Can financially-challenged institutions sustain the range of majors and faculty size, especially in the humanities, while adding new career-aligned fields? These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.
Campuses need to do more to cultivate a sense of belonging and connection with faculty, classmates, and the campus itself. Still, there are steps that institutions can take to enhance outside-the-classroom life: facilitate more interaction with faculty, including emeritus faculty.
These include not only students learning from faculty but also students learning from each other and faculty learning from students. We are very honored to have gotten that designation, which honors the work of our illustrious faculty and staff. We were required to take a lot of liberalarts courses.
Background Hendrix College, founded in 1876, is a private liberalarts institution located in Conway, Arkansas. The student-to-faculty ratio is 11:1, fostering close interactions between students and the 91 full-time faculty members, 89% of whom hold a Ph.D. Dr. Karen K. or equivalent degree.
I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “LiberalArts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). HOLY SWEET CRAP that casual equation of “fewer liberalarts students” = universities becoming vocational schools.
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