Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Now, I see this through a new lens as my husband, Richard, and I have made our first big philanthropic investment in higher education: supporting one of our nation’s small liberal arts colleges. Today’s world is made better with the kind of education students get at a small liberal arts college.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 30, 2023

Middle States Commission on Higher Education said it is yanking accreditation partly because the liberal arts institution is in “imminent danger of closing.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Notably, each of those courses takes a week out of the semester – often in March – to allow the private women's liberal arts college’s students to travel to destinations associated with their respective course, at no additional cost. “We American educational institutions, and bring some improvement.' You're not a tourist.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 6, 2023

Faculty members and other supporters of the liberal arts gathered at Ursinus College last week to debate what liberal education is and how best to attract students to it. What is liberal education? How can colleges support it? And how can they attract more students to pursue it?

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The value of a college degree from a small liberal arts school is often tied to a more intimate, meaningful higher education experience.Global education is garnering increasing interest, making study abroad an essential component for institutions striving to attract a shrinking pool of prospective students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

University of Mount Saint Vincent The institution — founded in 1847 by the Sisters of Charity and originally known as the Academy of Mount Saint Vincent — was the first established higher education organization for young women in New York, according to the release. 1, it became the University of Mount Saint Vincent.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 26, 2024

Eastern Nazarene College, a private, nonprofit Christian liberal arts institution in Massachusetts, said late Tuesday that it would close and transition to “a new educational enterprise” to carry on its legacy.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Aaron is a higher education professional with more than 25 years of experience in enrollment management. He has written previously for RNL about best financial practices for universities and has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. Those students can always go to a larger institution.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

JUNE 2, 2024

There has been a lot written about the death of the English degree in higher education. The first (using the tabs across the top) shows degrees by the institutions where they're awarded. You'll see little change: Most degrees are still awarded by public institutions, doctoral institutions, in larger cities. Is it true?

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2024

Nearly half of the state's two-year liberal-arts institutions are being shuttered. By Eric Kelderman Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK Thomas M. Nelson, county executive in Outagamie County, Wis. It wasn't supposed to be this way.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

This new designation rightly represents the type of institution that we are today. SUNY Old Westbury is a campus committed to powerful, liberal arts education and dedicated to preparing its students for career and life success while empowering them to be change-makers for social and environmental justice.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2024

More than one quarter of all middle-skills credentials and associate degrees offered nationwide are misaligned with the needs of their local labor markets, according to the latest report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW), " The Great Misalignment."

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. percent at nonprofit institutions and 2.2 percent at for-profit institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Keystone College—a small, liberal arts college in Northeastern Pennsylvania—had its accreditation withdrawn this week by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. A teach-out plan for students to be able complete their education elsewhere is due to the accrediting body on Dec.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

He explained his departure in an open letter, claiming that Dr. Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. West resigned Apr. 5, less than a year into his five-year term.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. ” Greene’s comments shed light on a more significant issue across higher education.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As colleges and universities across the country face declining enrollments caused by rising tuition costs, changing job market demands, and demographic shifts, institutions are getting creative with solutions. This method leverages online education technologies that have become more familiar and advanced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

By Sonel Cutler Birmingham-Southern College, a private liberal-arts institution plagued by more than a decade of financial problems, will cease operations at the end of May, it announced Tuesday.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

By Karin Fischer Illustration by The Chronicle; Getty Images; Jens Kalaene, picture-alliance, dpa, AP They say the the liberal-arts institution, which has a reputation for standing up to authoritarian governments, has done little to support them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

“I’m just really excited to lead such a dynamic and important institution like Mount Holyoke,” said Holley in an interview with Diverse. “I I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.” Mount Holyoke was founded to challenge the idea that women did not need a liberal arts education,” said Holley.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. The first, the Educational Preparedness Program (EPP) , offers courses, academic support, and career-building resources to currently and formerly incarcerated (CFI) students.

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University Business

MAY 19, 2023

The pandemic was more than an inconvenient wrinkle to higher education. It may have transformed the sector for good, and those that cannot adapt shouldn’t be surprised when they close, according to a new joint report from Ernst & Young and Times Higher Education. “Are universities of the past still the future?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

When I first became a higher education professional, I remember being told that higher education was not a business. Now more than ever, I reflect on that perspective and ask if it is relevant to society’s emerging realities and today’s public perceptions and expectations for higher education. Instead, we serve learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

higher ed institution. DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

However, several institutions this year have dodged the tolling bell—offering college leaders clues as to how they, too, can avoid an existential crisis. However, proponents of higher education are still struggling to alleviate the consequences students and employees face. .” Can institutions pause the plummet?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Atlanta-based institution was founded in 1881 and is considered a leading liberal arts college and global leader in the education of women of African descent. This gift is a critical step in our school’s mission to eliminate financial barriers to starting and finishing a Spelman education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 14, 2024

In this episode of Changing Higher Ed, Drumm welcomes Dan Oppenheimer, Director of Public Affairs for UT Austin's College of Liberal Arts, to discuss the university's groundbreaking "Civil Discord" symposium that was held in March of this year. Vision for the future of civil discourse initiatives in higher education.

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

As the cost of higher education continues to rise for students across the socioeconomic spectrum, public and private institutions’ marketed sticker prices have become an increasingly unreliable metric for applicants to gauge how much they will pay, a new report from Brookings declares.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

State universities in West Virginia have an uphill struggle to resuscitate interest in higher education. Ravaged by a poor economy, declining population and an understated opiate crisis , it has the lowest bachelor’s degree level educated percentage of all 50 states. What is a land-grant university’s core principle?

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A. Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. These institutions also distort the standards by which colleges and universities are measured—and which lesser-resourced institutions cannot possibly meet.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

As Georgetown’s Center for Education and the Workforce says : “Majoring in business pays off. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? The most distinctive feature of American higher education is the value it places on liberal education. ” Wait a second.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. Professional education.

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