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Program Equips Community College Students to Obtain Four-Year Degrees

Insight Into Diversity

First-generation students and those from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds are given priority in the application process for the five-week summer program at Vassar, a private liberal arts institution in New York state. Scholarships are awarded to cover tuition and room and board.

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

eLiterate

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. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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2023 Inspiring Programs in Business Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

About 20 students participate each summer, with each receiving a full scholarship covering program, housing, and meal costs. Campus internships, networking field trips, conference scholarships, and health and wellness opportunities are also offered. Accepted XULA students are guaranteed generous scholarships.

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

SRHE

Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. Julianne K Viola is a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship (CHERS).

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?