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.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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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%.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Misalignment between courses, accumulation of excess credits and seemingly dead-end degree options have impeded momentum for students aspiring to transfer for too long. The MiTransfer Pathways combine foundational courses in each discipline, the MTA and the balance of credits required to complete an associate degree in 10 areas of study.

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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.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. “I’m going to work for you someday,” he told her.

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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

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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?

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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?

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Despite a difficult few years for the liberal arts, Muzi Li recalled how Western almost changed its priorities – and arguably, international priorities – by choosing to focus on programs in the humanities in place of sciences. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Dannels found that in engineering firms, professionals value communicators who can translate technical jargon to nonspecialists, an essential skill given the growth of cross-sector team projects in the field. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At Susquehanna, we receive a list of 222 “national liberal arts colleges.” Some, like Wall Street Journal/THE assess all institutions together rather than separating liberal arts colleges from large universities or institutions that recruit regionally versus nationally.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Department of Education that allows us to look at, if you study engineering or social work or psychology at a specific institution, what’s the ROI you’re getting, looking at your cost relative to the earnings boost you’re obtaining? People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Example: As the admissions director for a liberal arts college, your aim is to boost international student enrollment by 15% in two years, focusing on business and tech programs. Example: Imagine working for a small liberal arts college known for its close-knit community and personalized attention.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

Hanna Lee 03:47 So we have seen various reactions on ChatGPT and AI Power Search Engines. For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So again, 2021 may sound new, but not too new, compared to the recent discussion regarding the AI-powered search engine or ChatGPT.

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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. I did an undergraduate degree in information technology, and I have an MBA. Andrew Koricich 05:33 It is, and if we were to look at only the ones that grant degrees, then it’s an even more significant percentage.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1% decrease in enrollment, which is troubling, given the growing demand for engineering professionals. minority and STEM).

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Associate Provost for Academic and Graduate Affairs, Seton Hall University Melissa McCauley, Director of Marketing, Wilfrid Laurier University Enhancing the attractiveness of joint undergraduate and graduate degrees Coutney B.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

That vocabulary must be challenging, so that it provokes new thinking, but it must not be overly technical or oriented towards engineering or architectural concerns. We need to build a vocabulary that helps people to discuss the roles of space in practice. What stories can be told of prior students? Julianne : It has!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2023

Ingle discusses the importance of appreciative inquiry and the sigmoid curve’s positive effect on organizational growth and health, how to align an entire system, and what steps he took to cut the cost of degree programs by two-thirds and help students graduate debt-free. Again, it creates that engine for velocity amid change.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

XULA students in liberal arts or STEM can enter Lehigh’s master of science in management program, earning a degree in 10 months. The unique combination of studies prepares graduates for industries ranging from health care to consulting and banking to brand marketing.

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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. Is a college degree even worth it?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. This broader view of the public good aligns education more closely with the needs of society and the job market.

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