Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 14, 2025

Established initially as the Tuskegee Normal School for training Black teachers, it evolved into Tuskegee Institute and eventually a university known for blending liberal arts, technical, and professional education. Curricula Tuskegee offers a broad curriculum encompassing over 50 degree programs. It was built on Booker T.

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MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

Steven Mintz, author and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, posits that higher ed has strayed too far from its traditional purpose: providing a holistic liberal arts education that produces students who are “life-ready.” Becoming more accessible won’t always mean adding a new program or degree.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

“We look at our history. ’ History can be a model, and it can repeat itself.” Like many presidents of private liberal arts colleges, Link is working with faculty on curating a space where students feel safe and comfortable to exchange potentially contentious dialogue. We look to our values.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. ” Continuity of Leadership Wabash has a history of stable and effective leadership, providing consistent direction and long-term strategic planning. And our faculty and staff too.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2025

During the multi-year transition period, Rosemont will continue operating independently, allowing current students the opportunity to graduate with Rosemont College degrees. "We

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums?

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia. The news has not been good.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

13, becoming the first woman in the college’s 63-year history to serve as president. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from St. That experience comprises roles with Craven Community College, including dean of Liberal Arts and University Transfer, director of Planning and Assessment, and Science, Math, Health/PE chair.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 3, 2023

Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. To survive, Manhattanville College has chosen to cut full-time faculty, grow its administration, and create new interdisciplinary degrees. The Manhattanville faculty is the heart of the institution.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

We are committed to securing the best possible options for our students, faculty and staff and believe this merger with Villanova offers the best opportunity to ensure that the Rosemont College history and legacy endures.” ” Rosemont students who graduate by 2028 will still receive a Rosemont degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall. In general, a Black Studies degree is very multi-faceted, especially for the population and the communities that we serve,” Sauvignon says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Allen earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Meredith before going on to attain a master’s degree from East Carolina University and a Ph.D. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith. It made her the first alumna to be president of the private women’s liberal arts college in its 130-year history.

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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. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The courses span various fields – including criminology, social welfare and justice, and history – and touch on topics such as mass incarceration, surveillance, poetry, and the psychology of adolescent development. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

An experienced leader in his own right, Benson is the current president of Coastal Carolina University, where he secured a $10 million gift, the largest in school history, according to a university statement. Kiss also served 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College, an all-womens liberal arts college in Atlanta.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

At 15 years old, he is one of Indiana’s youngest ever bachelor’s degree recipients. He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. The rule is you can’t go to college until you have a high school degree. Njumbe said he’s too young to start medical school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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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. ” Surely, many of the available explanations have varying degrees of validity.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

She also outlines Luminas new 2040 goal: 75% of working-age adults holding a degree or credential that leads to economic mobilitya shift that will require not just broad alignment, but thoughtful and inclusive approaches to strategic planning. Right, because most people with a liberal arts background do very well long term, so.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

According to the study, the number of graduates with an undergraduate degree in public health jumped by more than 1,100 percent between 2001 and 2020, outpacing master’s degrees as the most popular public health degree by 2020. The number of advanced degree holders working in government has also increased over the years.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. Less has been said about the competence of the providers which grant degrees to ensure their lasting value to the graduate as a qualification. ‘I

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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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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

A USC sociology, history or dance major may not be attuned to the discipline of quantum computing, but the university's soon to open School of Advanced Computing will open its doors to all — as well as dramatically expand the number of degrees it confers in technology-related fields, officials announced Thursday.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts. Mrs. Renfrow Smith’s sense of inherent significance also emanates from knowing her family history. Guided by the motto “Work. Support thyself.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A. He will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M. in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington; and a Ph.D.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. He also helped add 27 undergraduate programs to Alma’s academic catalog and founded its first graduate degrees. More from UB: How these colleges successfully de-escalated campus protests Retired Jennifer K.

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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

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). So, for instance, the shuttering of nine degree offerings at Marymount turns out on closer inspection to affect about 75 students, or about 2% of the institution.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

These are higher ed’s workhorses, which serve the bulk of those who attend a bachelor’s degree–granting institution and include regional and urban publics and the moderately selective or broad-access privates with high acceptance rates. ” The future of American higher education hinges on these campuses.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Yet, the US only has a handful of schools offering full-fledged degrees; most stick to certificates or minors. Enter Roanoke College, a small liberal arts college in Virginia, making headlines by launching a cannabis studies program with two majors and a minor—a first in the Commonwealth and a rarity on the East Coast.

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. Dr. Anita Bledsoe-Gardner, JCSU’s dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Board of Trustees member, describes Kinloch as a visionary, referencing her plans to extend JCSU’s global reach. And that’s how it started for me.”

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