Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. They seek rigorous academics and associate that with strong STEM programs in a liberal arts context as the top characteristics of a great university. And they need to prepare themselves for future work, in relevant ways.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Officials at Oxford College of Emory University, one of the university’s two liberal arts colleges, in 2019 identified a need for a more positive campus climate. Faculty, staff and students provided input to develop definitions of each principle, with the initial focus as a student-facing initiative.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Definitely a very attractive point for Asian destinations,” said Josephine Phinith, business development manager at ICEF. To aid this, getting a visa is becoming increasingly easy. There are very few application declines, and Japan is making a pledge to increase the number of working visas too. Mixing domestic and international students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. The college’s dean, Dr. David E.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. However, Dieken does not believe access and affordability is a zero-sum game; middle-class students should apply before getting intimidated.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, if we adopt a more restrictive definition of the humanities, only 4 percent of college graduates in 2020 majored in traditional humanistic fields, including English, history, philosophy and foreign languages and literature. Why does it cost almost the same to get a B.A. I see two main ways to tackle this issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2024

Fontbonne University will close in 2025, a decision that follows years of dwindling enrollment and financial losses at the 100-year-old Clayton-based liberal arts institution. Washington U, in a statement Monday, said it has no definitive plans for the site. A sale price was not disclosed.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We [at the State Department] definitely putting the work in, but the US can absolutely remain confident of the million plus number and the fact that we remain the top destination in the world.” “I’m confident that the US universities are the best in the world,” he said.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The visceral response from this faculty participant captivated me; in this moment, I knew there was definitely “a missing piece [peace].” It would be imbalanced and naïve to think this person was alone; there were several faculty colleagues who shared the participant’s views. From the aforementioned disciplines, 667 positions were reviewed.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

It’s definitely moving in the right direction, but there’s a lot of ground to make up,” Fink said. Miller believes private liberal arts colleges, as well as community colleges, are trying harder to recruit male students in particular, in part by offering more sports participation options.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic.

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Today's Learner

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With the help of eight passionate instructors, we added 80 new Concept Videos to WebAssign across College Algebra, Developmental Math and Liberal Arts Math courses. The new Concept Videos cover definitions and examples, demonstrating Math concepts and processes step-by-step in just 5-10 minutes each.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. It cuts to the core of our values and motives for doing equity work, work that is too often one step forward and three steps back, so it is definitely taking its toll.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“I’m not sure if any program is doing that, but it’s definitely not what we’re doing.” “We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 10, 2024

More from UB: Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy Universities under the microscope will undoubtedly need a multifaceted response to these diverse and unpredictable challenges. Each of these brings reputational risk for universities and has the potential to undermine confidence in university leadership.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

For our new audience today, you should definitely check out Episodes 17 and 18. Lixing Li 03:14 This is great, Hanna, you definitely have good points. ChatGPT is definitely the most trending one. For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. Hello, Hanna.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gillis: I’m an assistant professor in sociology at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. Romero-Hall: Technology’s definitely not always the solution to all of our problems. All of my experience is coming from teaching undergraduate courses and sociology about inequality.

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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 of the significant challenges of talking about rural colleges is that there is no one agreed definition of what rural is.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

It is a hallmark skill developed as part of a liberal arts education, and it is in full display on our campuses. Being a university president isn’t the hardest job, but it may be the most interesting, and it is definitely the most rewarding.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations. Liberal arts majors have some sort of ROI, and while they might not have it immediately in terms of how much they’re making, we can see an exponential increase in their salary after the first few years. Brown: I definitely do.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

Eighty-one percent are at least somewhat worried about climate change, while 61 percent of students whose colleges have not already divested from fossil fuels would consider, or would definitely consider, getting involved to persuade their institution to do so. “A teeny liberal arts college can’t make that investment.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And I’ll take a first swipe at that, Drumm and Bob and that, just for, definition purposes, the national clearing house basically contains the records of almost like 95 percent of enrolled post -secondary enrolled students. So it is the definitive data source. [00:15:15] Bill: Yeah. the demographics are very daunting.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

If we’re talking about earning a degree as a metric of success, it’s not an insurance policy where you’re definitely going to find a good job. However, there’s still no guarantee that they are definitely going to land themselves a good job by age 30. Drumm McNaughton 11:23 Well, that makes sense.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Definitely. But no matter what, it definitely has an impact. And I like, I really liked the definition that they use to describe the way that this process works because graduate recruitment and admissions are very much connected to their enrollment management strategies. Drumm: That’s very concerning. Does that make sense?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

But there was no civics, history, geography, or any form of a liberal arts education. The Naval Academy, by legal statute, requires 80% of the graduates to be technical majors in STEM and 20% to get a liberal arts education. We were required to take a lot of liberal arts courses. I was a physics major.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Even though we have no expertise in any of these subjects” [00:18:33] Drumm McNaughton: You know, one of the comments that I sawin your study was they were terminating programs that don’t fit in their definition of classic liberal arts model. gender studies being one of them. [00:18:47]

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

One solution to rising tuition costs would be that a large consortium of schools, e.g., PAC-12 schools or all Midwest liberal arts schools that happen to compete with one another, should announce they are not going to raise tuition by more than inflation each year for the next ten years. So whenever budgets are cut, tuition does go up.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

And we agreed that there definitely were. we’re getting hit very hard with many of those things, but it, you know, kind of reminds me as well, Einstein’s definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. So there were, common issues around, rising. interest rates are going up.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

Kevin Grubb 07:30 We’re definitely thinking about both. So the definition of success to us is broad. Our next guest is Jeff Schauer, author of the recently released book Inside The Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship. Do I have that right? How was the professional development that we provided to you?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Scott Fitzgerald’s definition of intelligence. A good liberal arts education should make us do that. And maybe, just maybe, I provided a better liberal arts education in Qatar than I thought. ” Indeed, a good liberal arts education should make us struggle. Both professor and student alike.

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Higher Ed Marketing Lab

AUGUST 12, 2021

And getting them for example, to understand what their role is, especially at a small private liberal arts college, in the mid market, at a price point that is awfully high, that competes with state flagships as their number one competitor. I haven’t asked also if like marketing, do they report up to you?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

And hurricane season is a definite no-go. ” The unspoken objective was to demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education in a nation that Freedom House ranks 48th out of 100 (“partly free”) due to limited political rights and civil liberties. Not while the city’s encased in winter fog.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Nearly two-thirds of students at UNF say that DEI programs have had a positive impact on their college experience and that the initiatives are “definitely not” discriminatory toward students, according to a recent survey by the student government. Students have also shown significant support for diversity initiatives in the state.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Shireman: Employers’ expectations have definitely shifted. In an ever-evolving labor market, human skills, or “soft skills,” like critical thinking, communication or teamwork, often developed in a liberal arts degree, still remain in high demand. Will a degree still be required to enter a new career?

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