Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department. It’s incredibly destructive.”

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

Most drastically, it eliminated the entire World Languages department. Cultural competency, the top outcome of learning an additional language and culture, remains a priority for students attending selective liberal arts colleges or research universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down. (And

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University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

While the Department of Education has announced that a review is being launched to seek recommendations about how to improve the Federal Student Aid office, America is at a crisis point and the situation demands immediate action. It is time for members of Congress and the Department of Education to do theirs.

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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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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. If we are going to build a human bridge, we have to know each other and understand our histories,” said Garcetti. “We

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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. He joined Penn’s Department of Biology in 1997 after a postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan State University. He will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M. from the University of Chicago.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“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. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

Cornell University : Cornell’s Department of Computer Science has been a pioneer in AI research since the 1990s. Likewise, Georgia Tech promotes interdisciplinary study in AI through a new minor available to its liberal arts and engineering students. Columbia University : Multiple B.S. Duke University : Offers a B.A.

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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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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

When asked how departments would measure success in the year ahead, 78% indicated growth of programs and 60% student/ scholar satisfaction rates. Success for US professionals was led by the number of new international student enrolments as well as the number of students studying abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Shauntae Brown White, professor of mass communication and coordinator of women’s and gender studies as well as Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Social Science and Humanities, was part of the proposal process and the minor’s development. and globally.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus. The program got approval last spring.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” The college said its plan also “calls for Allegheny to have a student-to-faculty ratio that is aligned with other national liberal arts colleges. This included notes from past students and current colleagues, including her department chair, Briana Lewis, head of world languages and cultures.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. State Department. Arlt Award in the Humanities. politics, foreign relations and human rights. Each chapter begins with a short introductory essay providing historical context for that period of history.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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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

APRIL 7, 2023

“The four-year degree isn’t working for a lot of people,” Lori Carrell, the chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, told her colleagues around the table, noting higher education’s high cost and low degree attainment, which has “squandered human potential at times.” ” Pasquerella said.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Housed in the university’s Department of Family Science, the course will meet once a week in two consecutive seven-week sessions beginning in the spring semester. The demand seems to be there; according to Morgan, the course began filling up as soon as it was listed, even before the department began advertising it.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From skills assessment rubrics to soft skills microcredentials , this generic conception strips away critical information about how skills are defined, used and rewarded by actual human beings. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” New College’s liberal arts structure allows students with an interest in theater to take a course, whether that’s in performance, dance, or technical theater. That comes directly from me being a Latinx artist,” said Villada.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

My department has fallen in size from 72 tenure-stream faculty to a little over 50, with no real decline in enrollments. Journals and presses find it hard to find manuscript reviewers, while departments often can’t locate external evaluators in tenure and promotion cases. Last semester I taught 800 students and this semester 80.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

State Department to eliminate barriers for higher American education institutions seeking to sponsor Afghan refugee students. “These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

” Angie Paccione, executive director of the Colorado Department of Higher Education, said she understands the opportunity cost metric is “a bit of a tough pill to swallow,” particularly from an equity perspective, but added that she’s confident such concerns can be addressed as the plan is workshopped and finalized.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. I was certainly right about his career prospects.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Carleton College’s IT department has 40 FTEs.) It also helps humanize the role. Standing alone makes [the persons of color or women] stand out as different, tripping the unconscious bias most of us have in our human tribe mentality.". Janet sat down with EAB’s IT Forum to share her strategies for diversifying the IT workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In March 2023, Penn State leadership asked all departments to submit positions for elimination.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In March 2023, Penn State leadership asked all departments to submit positions for elimination.

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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. Instructors are human beings, and when there’s a face in front of us in the classroom, it’s really hard to not cater to what those people are most wanting. They expect in-person education.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

And some people add to the congestion in overburdened hospital emergency departments. Colleges and universities could provide this role while weaving career paths through the traditional liberal arts education that has served humanity so well for so long. Alleviating Canada’s Acute Shortage of Family Doctors.

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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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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 14, 2022

This brought me back to another passage in Coolidge’s speech that emphasized the need to keep a firewall between the news department and the advertising branch: Our American newspapers serve a double purpose. Yet, in fact, I doubt if those adjustments are any more difficult than have to be made in every other department of human effort.

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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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