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.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1847 in Richmond, Indiana, Earlham College is a private liberal arts institution with deep Quaker roots. This dual-degree approach combines the benefits of a liberal arts education with technical training, preparing students for careers in engineering, business, and technology fields.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

OCTOBER 30, 2024

As a marketing agency with over 15 years of experience in educational marketing, we at HEM understand that school administrators and marketers face unique challenges when promoting their institutions. Though every institution has different objectives, generally, school advertising serves a unique purpose.

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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. in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Spelman College has received a historic $100 million gift.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. While most institutions and their academic programs faltered during the worst of the pandemic, this STEM subset thrived, growing 6.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

liberal arts college, potentially resulting in the school receiving $750 million for its endowment. The Kansas liberal arts school has raised $130 million so far. McPherson College has received the largest single commitment to a small U.S. The donor can either pay over time or the total is due in full upon death.

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

And data can help to point institutions to make decisions. Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computer science, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. The research draws on Lightcast’s labour market insights and Studyportals’ global view of study demand.

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University Business

AUGUST 6, 2024

Some of the most forward-thinking institutions have recently pushed themselves into a new foray of the cutting edge: artificial intelligence. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making , melding interdisciplinary research across electrical engineering, computer science, statistics, operations research and brain and cognitive sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The courses are offered at several sites: the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration Center, the Racine Youthful Offender Correctional Facility, the Racine Correctional Institution, and Marquette’s own campus, said Dr. Darren Wheelock, director of criminal justice data analytics at Marquette.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

Many institutions around the country are offering innovative cross-disciplinary or interdisciplinary courses that connect in new ways the core skills and expertise of our humanities colleagues with issues of general public interest and priority. This Institute asks, how can we live well with technology?

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Create your award-winning campaign with RNL RNL can work with you to develop marketing and recruitment campaigns that grab the attention of prospective students and make a compelling case for them to engage with your institution. Sharing targeted emails that told students they’re “Everything but Ordinary.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Upward transfers – where students transfer from two-year institutions to four-year schools – experienced the brunt of the drops, making up most of the Fall 2022 transfer enrollment decline, according to the report. This pattern makes it the only pathway to continue in decline in Fall 2022 (-7.5%), a total 14.5% decrease from 2020-2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Q: What is keeping you and your peers at other institutions up at night? A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. At the very small liberal arts college [Swarthmore College] I attended, I unwittingly pursued a four-year internship in academic administration.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 17, 2024

Search Engine Optimization remains critical for reaching potential students, faculty, and researchers. Additionally, we’ll examine the power of local SEO for institutions looking to attract students to their physical campuses. The key to success lies in the effectiveness of the university’s marketing strategies.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

President Meredith Woo has spearheaded Sweet Briar College’s triumphant revival over the past several years, and now she is making way for the institution’s next leader. Sweet Briar is an important institution with a distinctive mission,” Woo said in a statement. Meredith Woo (Sweet Briar College).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Through a series of focus groups and individual interviews, the researchers collected responses about the role age plays in DEI initiatives from 42 DEI personnel members from 36 higher ed institutions – 14 private and 22 public schools across 19 U.S. Friedman Center for Aging.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Finney, director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Research on Higher Education. “In the context of the health of the institutions, those dual enrollments do make a difference,” Shapiro said. Enrollment at private nonprofit institutions dipped 0.6 and 2 percent. percent in 2021. percent.

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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

APRIL 6, 2023

Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors. While all of the programs emphasize the importance of improving student mobility between institutions, each puts its own unique spin on the effort.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Additionally, half of the six presidents to be hired or retired hail from an institution with strong religious ties. While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. News and World Report rankings among private, non-profit schools in New York.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Top 10 Student Recruitment strategies every institution should adopt editor Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:24 In the dynamic world of higher education, recruiting top-tier talent isn't just a process—it's an art. These proven methods have fueled successful enrollment campaigns, driven diversity, and amplified institutional excellence.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

It demonstrates that global engagement is not just a buzzword but a core value that permeates all levels of the institution. The Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Engagement at the University of Mississippi provided funding for the program.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

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; a broader approach considering other types of institutions (e.g.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

I was at a conference, and the attendees were workshopping solutions for increasing digital learning capacity at their respective institutions. We can do things like engage our colleagues within our institutions who are well equipped to facilitate learning using digital learning tools.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

“Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said. “The hollowing out of administrative and professional staff, and the dismissal and erasure of colleagues, institutional experience and real community, have created a culture of fear and distrust and are harming the college.

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

colleges and universities is on the rise, although it has still not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to a report released by the Institute for International Education. The number of international students enrolled in U.S. Source: CNBC.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Yet units are often left “betwixt and between” to establish and market summer programming—sometimes, without the total weight of support from their institution. Schools like Worcester Polytechnic Institute are seeing excellent results firsthand.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Typically, proprietary institutions, like barber colleges and beauty schools, that serve very few students. The company that Tony Blair’s son Euan founded, Multiverse, arranges professional apprenticeships in business operations, data science, and software engineering. So do other institutions.

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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. The donor base responded by granting the college a series of gifts that turned some of Cole’s visions into reality.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In my view, a college education shouldn’t just cultivate students’ cognitive, analytic and problem-solving abilities or expand their content knowledge or merely instill the cultural literacies that we associate with a rich liberal arts education. Yet few secular institutions strive to actually achieve those objectives.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

has declined significantly; between 2012 and 2020, institutions such as Tufts University and Ohio State University lost nearly half their humanities students. percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. Why wouldn’t you do that?”

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

School leaders are appointed to lead an institution for their quantifiably successful work, like Ron Patterson at Chadron State College. He previously served as the Institute Community and Equity Officer at MIT and the chief diversity officer and senior associate provost at the University of South Carolina.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

I will also make the case by focusing on skills mainly as an additive to the degree—the degree-plus-“skills” formula promoted by Coursera, boot camps and the like—institutions are missing opportunities. He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer. Mr. Clark wants to go back to school to become an engineer.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Dannels found that in engineering firms, professionals value communicators who can translate technical jargon to nonspecialists, an essential skill given the growth of cross-sector team projects in the field. Darling and Deanna P. Jones found that head nods among Black workers in the U.S. Toward a Classroom-Centered Transformation.

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