Higher Education Inquirer

JULY 7, 2025

Federal disinvestment in research and financial aid, rising tuition (up more than 1,500% since the late 1970s), and increasing underemployment among recent graduates are undermining the perceived and actual value of a college degree. Credential Engine, World Bank, Blockchain in Education Conference Burning Glass Institute 26–29.

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University Business

APRIL 7, 2025

In fact, AI has impacted the workforce so much that computer science competencies, one of the most highly demanded degrees a decade ago, have changed. 1 skill in this ranking is AI literacy, which further highlights the prowess of the disruptive technology. Let’s get into some of the five hottest skills touted by job hunters today.

Liberal Arts

Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 15, 2025

Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate, To read about Jollimores outstanding essay, see Issue 346. Its a cheating engine. And, of course, theres more. Nearly universally, we are meeting lack of effort with lack of effort. For $15.95

Computer Science

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Inside the buildings that form the City Tech campus, 14,000 students from myriad backgrounds pursue degrees across a range of areas of study. City Techs next-door neighbor is NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where students pursue degree programs at an institution that is one of New Yorks largest private landowners.

Higher Education

Higher Education Inquirer

MAY 12, 2025

Schumpeter viewed this cycle as the engine of economic development, but also one driven by elites: entrepreneurs and innovators were the heroes of economic evolution, regardless of the collateral damage. As careers give way to side hustles and degrees to certificates, students and workers alike are left unmoored.

Liberal Arts

Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 7, 2025

Background Founded in 1749, Washington and Lee University (W&L) is a private liberal arts college located in Lexington, Virginia. The school became coeducational in 1985 and is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges nationally. degree and are encouraged to pursue interdisciplinary interests.

Liberal Arts

Academe Blog

MAY 7, 2025

We can all think of dozens of such ads, and they need to include a defense of the humanities and the social sciences, too, no matter how much easier it is to sell medical and engineering research. What role should the federal government play in higher education?

Arts And Sciences

Higher Education Inquirer

AUGUST 5, 2025

State legislatures invested heavily in public universities, seeing them as engines of democratic growth and regional development. Students were told to “shop” for degrees like they would consumer goods, choosing programs based not on curiosity or civic purpose but on return on investment.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For two decades, the gradual decline of the liberal arts degree has been met with both resignation and celebration. Dr. Nicole Polen-Petit But, to misquote Mark Twain, reports of the liberal arts’ demise have been greatly exaggerated. And this is where liberal arts graduates excel.

Liberal Arts

University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

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.

Liberal Arts

HEPI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Here, she writes about US liberal arts degrees. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. Computer Science and Engineering are the most highly recommended courses of study. What job could a person possibly get with an Art History degree, for instance?

Liberal Arts

The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. The PIE identified 19 colleges in the US to date from the beginning of 2023 that announced their closure which are either listed as liberal arts colleges or carry “strong liberal arts traditions”.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

Engineering

University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. Student interest may be fueled by employers’ high demand for talent who possess degrees in this field. from 2017 to 2022.

Liberal Arts

University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read more from The Washington Times.

Liberal Arts

University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

Humanities

The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

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.

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The half-day event promoted business and career advice and networking opportunities for science, technology, engineering and math students interested in pharmaceuticals and biotech, boosting students’ interest and confidence in postgraduate opportunities.

Liberal Arts

University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The happiest respondents earned their degrees in computer and information sciences, and criminology. Other highly satisfied graduates got their degrees in engineering, healthcare, business, and finance. Among those with communications degrees, for example, happy grads earn 1.6 Liberal arts & general studies: 72%.

Computer Science

University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

Colleges and universities have slowly begun to launch undergraduate degrees in AI. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences. Carnegie Mellon University became the first in 2018.

Computer Science

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% in Fall 2022), a trend mostly unaffected by the effects of the pandemic.

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

of first-time, full-time earned a degree or certificate in three years. Thanks to funding from the New York-based Teagle Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting and strengthening liberal arts education and punches well beyond its weight, a number of other institutions have adopted somewhat similar models. In 2019, just 7.2

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

And when they decide they want to continue their education by pursuing a degree, they turn to the second organization under CURTO involved in this effort, the McNeely Prison Education Consortium (MPEC). It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Or to take some other examples of high ROI fields: “Those with a bachelor’s degree in #architecture and #engineering have median lifetime earnings of $3.8 million for all master’s degree holders.” Which degrees earn the most? Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where?

Liberal Arts

HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

Her article explores the evolving value of degrees in English higher education, focusing on the competence of degree-granting institutions and the implications of recent changes in degree-awarding powers. Validation’ can allow it to offer only the degrees of a validating body with which it has a franchising arrangement.

Degree

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. Offer more coherent and integrated degree pathways that consist of aligned, synergistic courses.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Researchers with Lightcast, a labor market analytics firm, found four-year public universities and larger institutions, whether public or private, are more likely to see new degree programs prosper, according to an analysis of federal data on degree conferrals. percent success rate for 2,194 associate degree programs.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in the humanities over all fell 14.1 percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. And English majors comprise a big chunk of humanities degrees: in 2018, English language and literature made up 19.4

College

Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Eighty-seven percent of college graduates with a journalism degree say they would pick a different field of study if they could, earning that degree the dubious distinction of being the most regretted. Journalism Tops the List of Most-Regretted Majors. Source: CNBC.

Recruitment

Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

First come the claims that too many degree programs fail to provide a payoff. According to one recent study , in over a quarter of degree programs in Massachusetts, graduates earn less than high school graduates and must work for 20 plus years to recoup their education’s cost. ” So what, then, are the answers?

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier. liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

Arts And Sciences

University Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising. ” More from UB: Do college degrees lead to better jobs?

Liberal Arts

LSE Higher Education Blog

MARCH 28, 2025

To what degree are these new start-ups reflections of a distinctly American approach to the liberal arts, and to what degree do they reflect local traditions and aspirations? The 2020 policy document validated the liberal arts approach within Indian education and urged its broader implementation across the country.

Liberal Arts

MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Camps ranging in focus from engineering to sports have always been a great way for colleges to build their brand, serve their community, and provide fun and academic opportunities for young people. Standard offerings that arose during this era include: Camps. First-year and bridge programs. Intensive English programs.

Higher Education

University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College.

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In my view, a college education shouldn’t just cultivate students’ cognitive, analytic and problem-solving abilities or expand their content knowledge or merely instill the cultural literacies that we associate with a rich liberal arts education.

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