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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. The PIE identified 19 colleges in the US to date from the beginning of 2023 that announced their closure which are either listed as liberal arts colleges or carry “strong liberal arts traditions”.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

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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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

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. This was an emergency response, not an active choice, and it brought with it a large number of disadvantages to students and academic staff. Julianne : It has!

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2023 Inspiring Programs in Business Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

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 Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

The Change Leader, Inc.

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. Are colleges meant to train clergy?