Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. Milke, professor and chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at the A. Gilliam, Jr.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 14, 2025

Established initially as the Tuskegee Normal School for training Black teachers, it evolved into Tuskegee Institute and eventually a university known for blending liberal arts, technical, and professional education. The university balances a liberal arts foundation with strong STEM and professional programs.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read more from The Washington Times.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

The other four programs in the study are computer science, civil engineering, finance and nursing. She added that such a move seems like a bogus evaluation to paint programs within the humanities, like Women and Gender Studies, as not being valuable to civil society and not being valuable to higher education.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences. Likewise, Georgia Tech promotes interdisciplinary study in AI through a new minor available to its liberal arts and engineering students.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Or to take some other examples of high ROI fields: “Those with a bachelor’s degree in #architecture and #engineering have median lifetime earnings of $3.8 No surprise: computers, math, healthcare practice, architecture, engineering, and business. Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. million Andrew W.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 17, 2024

Search Engine Optimization remains critical for reaching potential students, faculty, and researchers. Search Engine Optimization remains a critical component of effective educational marketing, aiming to optimize a website for higher rankings in search engine results.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It’s adding them July 1.

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University Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising. ” More from UB: Do college degrees lead to better jobs?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

Phillips will be responsible for revamping Chatham’s academic program catalog specifically in health sciences and liberal arts. At Monmouth, Wyatt oversaw the establishment of colleges in engineering, neuroscience, health science and human movement. Michael Avaltroni – Fairleigh Dickinson University (N.J.)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From skills assessment rubrics to soft skills microcredentials , this generic conception strips away critical information about how skills are defined, used and rewarded by actual human beings. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S. Darling and Deanna P.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Despite a difficult few years for the liberal arts, Muzi Li recalled how Western almost changed its priorities – and arguably, international priorities – by choosing to focus on programs in the humanities in place of sciences. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. One that holds onto more of the residential liberal arts college tradition.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

Hanna Lee 03:47 So we have seen various reactions on ChatGPT and AI Power Search Engines. For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So again, 2021 may sound new, but not too new, compared to the recent discussion regarding the AI-powered search engine or ChatGPT.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Department of Education that allows us to look at, if you study engineering or social work or psychology at a specific institution, what’s the ROI you’re getting, looking at your cost relative to the earnings boost you’re obtaining? People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Here is a list of colors aligned with academic disciplines from Wikipedia [1] Faculty Color Sample Agriculture Maize Arts ( liberal arts ), letters ( literature ), humanities White Commerce , accountancy , business Drab Dentistry Lilac Economics Copper Education Light blue Engineering Orange Fine arts , architecture Brown Forestry , environmental studies (..)

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. Thank God, Drumm. Philip Danforth Armour, Sr.,

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. Even before the pandemic we’d recognized the need for a 3 year fully online General Bachelor of Arts. These are my top 10 reasons!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Human Cost: Emotional and Professional Toll The report and subsequent discussions shed light on the significant emotional and professional impact these developments have had on faculty and students. These changes speak to the human cost of political interference, affecting the very heart of educational institutions.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. When it’s all political appointees, they see it as a political tool rather than as an engine for a region or state. These are all things that you can get from not only a STEM background but mainly from a liberal arts education.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

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. Brett’s work prioritises Activity Theory conceptions of human practice, and interventionist methodologies. What stories can be told of prior students? Julianne : It has!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. If we believe that human promise is distributed equally, it’s what has been our lived experience.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1% decrease in enrollment, which is troubling, given the growing demand for engineering professionals. minority and STEM).

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Within community colleges, some programs of study are loosely defined, especially in the humanities, or were never designed to lead to transfer, as in the case of applied associate degrees. And improvement is needed.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. One might assume that educators who teach others about the disruptive power of technologies, such as printing presses or steam engines, would be well-equipped to face the challenges posed by the new disruptive AI technology.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer. Mr. Clark wants to go back to school to become an engineer. When Mr. Clark is ready to go back to college and become an engineer, will he get credit for the knowledge and skills he has learned through the program? Here’s one solution. Did you catch that last sentence?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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