Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

This applies not only to math departments but to all the other disciplines that use math as a prerequisite. The math faculty created a Math for Liberal Arts course that requires no developmental math, and faculty members redesigned the Statistics and College Algebra courses to require only one semester of developmental math as a prerequisite.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. In July 2025, he will depart for a one-year sabbatical and return to the life of academia. He currently serves as the CEO of True Empowering LLC, a communications company.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. ” Stern was removed as chair of his department in 2018 but has remained a professor at Auburn. Later that year, Stern was elected chair of the economics department.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the six appointees is conservative activist Christopher Rufo, dean at Hillsdale and senior fellow at right-wing think tank The Claremont Institute. My ambition is to help the new board majority transform New College into a classical liberal arts institution,” Rufo said. “We We are recapturing higher education.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Dr. Shauntae Brown White, professor of mass communication and coordinator of women’s and gender studies as well as Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Social Science and Humanities, was part of the proposal process and the minor’s development.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. ” Rivera-Mills begin this June.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That’s when student responses to a survey about the need for a culturally diverse curriculum prompted the creation of two courses related to the Black experience in film and music, says Dr. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus. The program got approval last spring.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberal arts fields. What they don’t know is that the skills developed in liberal arts classes can make the difference.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. He’s a philosophy professor and a dean. The Accelerated Learning Program was born in the English department of the Community College of Baltimore County, reflecting insights and intuitions borne of decades of teaching remedial and introductory English.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Gustafson served in faculty and administration at Presbyterian for nearly two decades before departing to Mercer University (Ga.)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

An unfortunate truth about career-related learning opportunities on a typical campus—think internship fairs, courses featuring work-integrated learning or networking events with alumni—is that they are too often fragmented or siloed across various departments or career centers. Toward a Classroom-Centered Transformation.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

For example, the chair of the performing arts department put extension cords, power strips and cold drinking water in the lobby of the performing arts building so students could use it as a lounge. 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

JULY 23, 2024

Since becoming the permanent president last year, the former dean, professor and provost of the Illinois-based liberal arts school has been talking about some of the pain points that everyone involved in higher education—from policymakers to students—is currently concerned with: affordability, student well-being and career preparation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. Scott Muir, director of undergraduate initiatives for the National Humanities Alliance, which promotes the value of studying the humanities, described challenges faced by deans and faculty members trying to launch new programs.

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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 I took the term from Howard Cunningham’s fraternal lodge on Happy Days.) Or even political science :?-?). He was serious.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including UC Irvine’s Outstanding Social Justice Activist Award, the Social Science Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Mentorship, and the UCI Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Faculty Mentorship. This turned into an ongoing debate. students as they did.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers. I was certainly right about his career prospects.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. · AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. Department of Education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

That goes for buildings and their surroundings, says Frater, dean of student services at Rochester General College of Health Careers. A student at a liberal arts college in Georgia described its arts building as being “in a serious state of disrepair. “It doesn’t feel like a comprehensive approach.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Since retiring from Bucknell University, Bill’s partnered with his longtime friend Bob Massa, the former Dean of Enrollment at Johns Hopkins University, to assist universities in overcoming their enrollment challenges, especially at how things have changed in the COVID era. I think it was about three years old at the time.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. Instead, appoint presidents who value their mission, their students, and what they’re capable of. One thing that I would caution against is when we think about the liberal arts and humanities as easy punching bags.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

That report, Supporting Instruction and Learning Through Artificial Intelligence: A Survey of Institutional Practices and Policies , found that only four percent of respondents reported that their institution had an overall institutional strategy for approaching AI, and only seven percent had strategies at the department or college level.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

AUGUST 12, 2021

In this episode, we’ll be exploring how enrollment and admissions leaders can form stronger, more collaborative relationships with colleagues in other departments. Joining us in the conversation is Brad Pochard, AVP for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions at Furman University. Transcript. I’m your host, Jarrett Smith.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

But Transylvania, we are a private liberal arts institution. And I think if our admissions dean was on the call right now, he would say being able to still offer some as quickly as we could get back to some in person visit, even though it wasn’t the same was really important. And that’s okay. We like that too.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Steve Estes, director of academic advising at Northern Illinois University’s College of Liberal Arts, which uses Navigate, praises the platform’s appointment campaign feature for proactive outreach and advising. GPA, so they’re not going to be on the dean’s list. ” Treboni asks. ” 8.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

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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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

World War I gave Erskine a chance to test his theories as Director of the Education Department for the Y.M.C.A. Buchanan, who was appointed dean, thought that the traditional liberal arts could be used as a formal structure for learning; he devised a course of study with the great books as the basis for discussion classes.

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University Business

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lauded for his leadership in the liberal arts, Baucom serves as the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at Virginia and previously served as dean of its College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences for eight years.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Key Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Thoroughly Review the Report: University presidents, administrators, provosts, deans, and other leaders actively engage with the contents of the report. And it took faculty from all different departments. gender studies being one of them. [00:18:47] That’s been a real mess too.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Freshly re-elected, he’s now shaking up higher ed at the campus level, aiming to transform the state’s public liberal arts college in the image of one of the country’s most visible private Christian colleges. On Twitter, Rufo said the new board aims to turn the college into a classical liberal arts institution.

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