Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

She will be the first woman to lead the school. In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2023

He said he wanted to shape schools to be like the New College of Florida, which has undergone controversial changes since he put right-wing ideologues in charge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

Michael West, head of Penn State’s Department of African American Studies, has resigned from the role, alleging that leadership broke promises and questioning the school's commitment to diversity and equity, Centre Daily Times reported. Dr. Michael West West will continue to serve as a tenured professor in the department.

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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? New tools.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

One private liberal arts college overhauled by Florida Gov. And last fall, the school was recently criticized for improperly dumping hundreds of books related to LGBTQIA+ topics. . ” The bill, however, was heavily amended following pushback. Brian Harrison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis has appointed six new board members to the New College of Florida, a step towards turning the school into a more conservative institution, the Herald-Tribune reported. "It The students and faculty at New College – a small school – have a reputation for leaning left politically, so a conservative turn may see resistance.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No After the default, Bergh and Cazenovia’s other leaders embarked on a desperate search for a way to save the school. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. even before it added the “G” to its acronym.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. Known for its commitment to mentored undergraduate research, Wooster offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in a residential setting. Alumni Employment and or attending graduate school is very high.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. In July 2025, he will depart for a one-year sabbatical and return to the life of academia.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 29, 2025

How this higher education strategic planning approach helped College of Charleston grow enrollment, launch new schools, and achieve national university status. His background shaped his belief that universities must better prepare students for real-world workforce demands while preserving the values of liberal arts education.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students at the liberal arts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. “More than 20% of our incoming class of new high school students this year started last fall with at least a semester’s worth of credit,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State is the principal investigator, and Dr. James A. Milke, professor and chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, is co-principal investigator. Gilliam, Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with high school math and increased support services provide certain levels of improvement but do not address the underlying issue: the student-deficiency mentality common among higher education practitioners. Students do well in these courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

His mission is to transition the long-time program into a department. 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. “We

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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. The post US ambassador urges more study opportunities for US students in India appeared first on The PIE News.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Jeffrey Henderson, director of the classics advisory service for the Society for Classical Studies, said, “Even the best-heeled schools are not growing their humanities programs.” ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

Two weeks later, he will walk across the stage to receive his high school diploma, adding one last credential to the collection he’s been building since he was 11 years old, when he took his first dual enrollment courses. He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. 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.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We [at the State Department] definitely putting the work in, but the US can absolutely remain confident of the million plus number and the fact that we remain the top destination in the world.” “We have over 3,700 schools that can take [them]. We want to diversify international education across this country.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). They divided them into four major categories: doctoral degree-granting national universities, liberal arts colleges, master’s universities and bachelor’s colleges.

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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. 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.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Antioch College President Jane Fernandes was elated when she discovered her college would be formally designated as a Federal Work College by the Department of Education. Eight other small liberal arts schools are currently designated four-year federal work colleges. Berea College in Berea (Ky.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

“I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. To me, it felt bigger.” This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Yale Law School’s decision to stop participating with the seminal college ranking service in November prompted a wave of other prestigious graduate programs to follow through; at least a dozen medical schools and 40+ law schools quit participating. Miguel Cardona, Secretary of the Department of Education, called U.S.

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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). Devereaux entitled “ Colleges Should be More than Just Vocational Schools ” (where “college” is being used in the American sense of “undergraduate education”).

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. she helped broaden the school’s admission of diverse students, specifically those of first-generation standing.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

I don’t remember having any contact at all with a career center in graduate school. What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberal arts fields. My first administrative experience of a career center was at DeVry.

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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

APRIL 5, 2024

Through a series of focus groups and individual interviews, the researchers collected responses about the role age plays in DEI initiatives from 42 DEI personnel members from 36 higher ed institutions – 14 private and 22 public schools across 19 U.S. As people are living and working longer, the need for on-going education and training grows.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” Leffingwell is slated to teach at New York City’s New School in the spring—an institution comprised of the Parsons School of Design, a liberal arts college, a performing arts college, the Mannes conservatory and several graduate schools. The institution has a storied history.

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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. Even so, English departments are constantly testing new approaches to win devotees, including by adding courses that students find particularly appealing, such as creative writing. million Andrew W.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

” Stern was removed as chair of his department in 2018 but has remained a professor at Auburn. In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The school wants to fire Dr. Joeckel for teaching these materials and educating students about the realities of racism in America.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The selection panel also intentionally chose participants who represented a wide variety of departments and diversity of student advisees for maximum impact. The Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Engagement at the University of Mississippi provided funding for the program.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

JANUARY 23, 2023

I also need to state clearly that this should not be at the expense of liberal arts education. As I work with my colleagues to imagine how best to weave micro-credentials and meaningful applied learning experiences into our liberal arts curriculum, I want to be sure that we also attend to the magic.

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