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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission. We strive to empower students, faculty, staff, and community members to address contemporary social issues through intellectual inquiry, reflective dialogue, and community action."

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Rhodes College to Establish Institute for Race and Social Transformation

Insight Into Diversity

Projects will range from documenting the oral histories of Black Memphians during the Civil Rights era to understanding where resources should be situated in our city to better serve our neighbors who are unhoused,” said Natalie Person, iRaST director and dean for curricular development at Rhodes, in a press statement.

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Another HBCU on Track for Reaccreditation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By the middle of the 20th century, KC had become a liberal arts institution with a reputation for organizing social justice movements like sit-ins. Some materials, like the faculty and student handbook, had to be created from scratch and then reviewed by KC’s Board of Trustees for approval. It’s been a long journey.

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Independent Colleges: Four Headwinds for Leadership to Navigate in 2024

Campus Sonar

At CIC, we saw the need for liberal arts colleges (LACs) to amplify the value of liberal arts in career preparation and shaping society. For example, Hampshire College fundamentally restructured its liberal arts experience to address globally relevant problems urgently needing solutions.

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Presidential worries: What’s keeping these Northeastern presidents up at night?

University Business

“ The ongoing drop in high school graduates, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest, is well documented,” he said. WNE has thus begun working with the Mental Health First Aid Program which plans to train students, staff and faculty with the necessary tools to face mental health and substance-use issues in the community.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021.

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President’s corner: President Elizabeth Davis crunches the numbers on new molds of student support

University Business

In the business of running an entire liberal arts college in South Carolina, the most cherished metric to study Furman’s success is student satisfaction. It’s well-documented that institutions have difficulty communicating important support services to their students. “What are students looking for?

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