Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. It wasn’t a very good environment for me,” said Njumbe. At first, Bloom assumed Njumbe was like any other high schooler taking one of his courses through dual credit.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Those people of color who received some or all of their higher education at predominantly white institutions frequently describe their experiences in these hallowed environments as bittersweet, with more emphasis on the bitter than the sweet. Perhaps they make no contribution at all, if they judge that insufficient progress has been made.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. ” But enrollment has since declined.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. Having matriculated through Title I schools in Charleston, South Carolina, President Kinloch understands firsthand the challenges and opportunities associated with under-resourced educational environments,” says Ellis.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Michigan’s decentralized higher education environment doesn’t always make things easier, and leaders in the transfer field have learned to rely on “coalitions of the willing” to move initiatives forward.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. “I think we’ve turned the corner,” Smolla said. “I’m very optimistic.” Joseph and Southern Vermont College.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., “I wanted to immerse myself in the environment,” she said. “Eat the food, visit the area—the smaller communities and the big cities—and see architecture and works of art that I had studied and appreciated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The Asian/Asian American Mentoring Program (AMP) – housed in UConn’s Asian American Cultural Center – pairs returning students to incoming ones to help these new Asian students better adjust to their new environment. The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Chang shares.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately. We made that decision believing that our values were clear.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At Susquehanna, we receive a list of 222 “national liberal arts colleges.” Some, like Wall Street Journal/THE assess all institutions together rather than separating liberal arts colleges from large universities or institutions that recruit regionally versus nationally.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

But such spaces remain rare, generally found only at private, progressive liberal arts colleges. But it was designed more to ensure a safe living environment than to foster community and connections. ’” Before Open Pages, Ithaca had another RLC targeted at trans students.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The New School provided all students a voluntary, self-directed assignment involving modules on migration and the environment, among other topics, at the beginning of the strike, though it’s unclear how many student completed it, and it won’t be graded anyway.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The Asian/Asian American Mentoring Program (AMP) – housed in UConn’s Asian American Cultural Center – pairs returning students to incoming ones to help these new Asian students better adjust to their new environment. The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Chang shares.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. The grant of the MA has undergone changes.

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CommCentered

DECEMBER 12, 2021

For a newbie professor, it was a safe and collaborative environment that helped me hone my craft. Many of these institutions share a common mission grounded in history, principles, and people. Catholic institutions benefit from the immersive and rich history of Catholic symbols that carry deep visual metaphors.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bill Conley William Conley began his career in education as an AP History teacher and coach at Delbarton School, transitioning into higher education enrollment management in 1980. And those colleges, especially private, small liberal arts colleges, are highly clustered in the Midwest and the Northeast.

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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. This broader view of the public good aligns education more closely with the needs of society and the job market.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

And in 2021, they brought in the largest class in Lynn’s 60 year history. But Transylvania, we are a private liberal arts institution. And we’ve got to make sure that those facilities are appropriately equipped to engage students in this new environment that we are in. Sarah, Gareth, Jeff, welcome.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

” This document, a noteworthy publication in AGB’s 110-year history and only the 13th such statement, addresses crucial issues in contemporary educational governance. And I sit actually as a trustee on a small, liberal arts college halfway around the world called High Gaussian College. In the landscape of U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges. They have limited interaction; oftentimes, institutions have very limited interaction with these individuals, but they are very curious about graduate education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

By acknowledging and respecting generational differences, you can create a more inclusive and understanding learning environment. He, like me, attended a liberal arts college, and that was truly a magical time. The environment got colder, uglier, and more pessimistic. Be attentive to student anxieties.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

In their best times, they have borne a commitment to ecumenicalism, and each has a rich history of scholarship and teaching. This why we strive to create an environment in which all students feel supported in expressing and celebrating their faith tradition, or lack of one. Catholic 30.0% Lutheran 7.0% Other Protestant 25.0%

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

I have been told that this is a vestige from a time when early scholars had a nook in their sleeves to keep their hands warm in unheated medieval environments. Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech. Doctoral robes in the U.S.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

A new climate action plan emerges in the higher ed arena This Is Planet Ed, a subsidiary of the Aspen Institute’s energy and environment program, has recently unveiled a climate action plan that hopes to ignite collaboration between all higher education stakeholders. 2 Performing Arts 65.9 3 Art History 62.3

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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. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. That’s true for us too in the College of Arts. Just explore!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So I guess that just means, we’ve had a history of,when we have problems, we just need to crack on and solve them because if we wait for other people to help the problem will have overtaken us. Just because of the function of time zones, we’re literally when we are up. And of course the reverse is also true.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. Hamline is a liberal arts institution, the oldest in Minnesota, the first to admit women, and now led by a woman of color.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Some of it reflects the news sources that I read or the Texas or academic environment in which I live. But in such a varied environment, it’s easy to slip up, misspeak, commit gaffes, and offend. Clinicals, practicums, and studio classes that provide opportunities to apply what they’ve learned in authentic environments.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. A recent book by Daniel H.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

These regulatory changes and discussions reflect a dynamic and challenging environment in higher education, with implications that extend beyond institutions to impact students and the broader educational system. As the landscape continues to shift, staying informed and adaptable will be key to thriving in this dynamic environment.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

They have told [people of color] our history is irrelevant and that our stories are not worth telling,” says Marlo Crosby, vice president of the UNF SDS. New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts honors college in Sarasota, has served as proof of concept for DeSantis and his allies’ attacks on DEI.

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