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Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy

University Business

Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberal arts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.

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Universities should be “skills brokers” for mutual benefit, urges report

The PIE News

Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computer science, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. “There is going to be a continuing need for liberal arts because critical thinking is still a fundamental skill,” he detailed.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. But we can learn from experience and draw upon those lessons as we make decisions that will shape the future. We can also identify patterns and trends that might otherwise go unseen.

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

Inside Higher Ed

Also concerned that Allegheny violated its own tenure policies, as well as the American Association of University Professors’ widely followed tenure policies, Shi reached out to her campus AAUP chapter and the national association. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. That is still pending.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Clark’s undergraduate residency requirement policy—the minimum number of credit hours a student must take while enrolled at the university to be eligible for a degree—for transfer students is normally set at 50 percent of the curriculum.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts 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.