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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Marymount University, in Virginia, is planning to cut many of its liberal arts programs, citing low enrollments, ARLnow reported. “These majors are a vital part of a well-rounded education, providing students with a deep understanding of culture, history, and the human experience. There is strong opposition to the plans.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. ” Surely, many of the available explanations have varying degrees of validity.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Now, nearly 15 years later, the idea has fresh momentum.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

By partnering with other institutions, colleges can quickly introduce new programs in high-demand fields, attracting students who might otherwise have overlooked small liberal arts schools. Many liberal arts colleges are struggling to attract students who prefer career-focused majors over traditional humanities disciplines.

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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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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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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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Phillip Brian Harper In Spring 2022, the foundation had invited proposals from institutions – accredited, non-profit, four-year liberal arts degree-granting U.S. and social justice and the literary imagination.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Image: Amid faltering enrollment rates and increased national scrutiny of the price and worth of a college education, Colorado is weighing a new formula to measure the “economic value” of degree programs offered by the state’s public institutions of higher education.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Officials said the layoffs are the resulted from the elimination of the College of General Studies (CGS) at the university’s Waukesha campus, where students could earn an associate degree in liberal arts — such as in arts and humanities, math and natural sciences, and social sciences and business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

More than one quarter of all middle-skills credentials and associate degrees offered nationwide are misaligned with the needs of their local labor markets, according to the latest report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), " The Great Misalignment."

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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Student eligibility requirements include earning 60 semester credit hours – 42 university core credit hours and 18 credit hours related to their intended baccalaureate degree – at least 30 of which were earned at WTAMU; achievement of a minimum 2.0 GPA; and no previous award of an associate degree at another institution.

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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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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

Colleges and universities have slowly begun to launch undergraduate degrees in AI. News & World Report, Computer Science Degree Hub and TechTarget. degree in computer science with classes specific to artificial intelligence. degrees related to AI, machine learning, robotics, data science and algorithms.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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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

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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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

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

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier. is clearly growing.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

One need look no further than the example of a foreign graduate student surprised to learn that, when Americans talk about their “baby,” they might as easily be referring to a dog as a human. None of these four languages are degree programs (e.g. Our academic approach is multidisciplinary, historical, and global.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Muhlenberg’s new program joins a growing number of DEI certificate and degree programs offered by businesses and, increasingly, institutions of higher education, experts said. A critical part of Muhlenberg’s mission is to develop civically-engaged students with an understanding of the diversity of the human experience,” said Vick.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” More from UB: Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education? Human decisions are not without bias, and AI tools might actually be used to combat systemic racism or ageism,” Gayeski continues. Still, skepticism persists.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. It seems to be a very good sign for access to bachelor degrees for students who might not be able to afford four years at a bachelor-degree granting institution.”

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Alongside healthcare, our human services programs are also evolving, with social work weaving in important questions of social justice and seeking collaborative partnerships with our criminal justice program as well as our addiction studies program. That’s fine and probably even a good idea. What are those habits of mind?

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Alongside healthcare, our human services programs are also evolving, with social work weaving in important questions of social justice and seeking collaborative partnerships with our criminal justice program as well as our addiction studies program. That’s fine and probably even a good idea. What are those habits of mind?

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

SUNY Oneonta President Alberto Cardelle invited Hartwick College to join the Regional Innovation Council to collaborate on regional issues and opportunities in healthcare and human services, business development, and employee recruitment and retention to name a few.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Among the course selections are the African American novel, human sexuality and behavior, power and gender, and science, technology and gender.

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University Business

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s more important than ever for institutions to provide the ROI for why today’s students should pursue a college degree. During these turbulent times, higher education institutions need to find ways to ensure that current and prospective students continue to see the ROI value in degree programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Could a degree consist of almost anything? The argument is around the usefulness of a degree to a student. If most people don’t use college-level math at work, why should it be a universal requirement for any degree? That’s especially true when colleges stipulate upfront that the degree may not be transferable.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But he changed his mind after his father returned to college in his late 30s and earned an online, competency-based bachelor’s degree at Western Governors University in a single year. I also walked away with a [bachelor’s] degree and seven industry certifications,” Weger said. “It was a no-brainer.”

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