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Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy

University Business

Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. My experience is different. More from UB: Had enough with the status quo?

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5 School Advertising Ideas: Top Dos and Don’ts

HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

Student takeovers are an excellent school advertisement tactic for targeting students who view their learning experience as an opportunity to earn new certifications and make memories. Example: This student takeover by Oxford University showcases a unique aspect of the school’s culture – formals!

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The Next Iterations of Disruptive Innovation

Inside Higher Ed

Next comes the argument that no one who was serious about developing faster, cheaper paths into “ high paying, in-demand jobs, like data and software engineering ,” would “ create [the] university as the way to get there.” ” So what, then, are the answers?

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Career-readiness initiatives are missing the mark (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

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. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S.

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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

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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2023 Inspiring Programs in Business Award Winners

Insight Into Diversity

Whitney Bunting College of Business and Technology at Georgia College & State University hosts an immersive weeklong residential learning experience on entrepreneurship for high school students of color from Georgia and surrounding states.

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Tailoring Student Services to Create Career-Ready Graduates: Changing Higher Education Podcast 153 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Kevin Grubb

The Change Leader, Inc.

When we have those experiences, we design things developmentally appropriate from start to finish. For instance, in the College of Engineering, every first-year student writes a resume. I do not want the career learning experience to be a distraction from what they’re learning in the academic environment.