Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Mount Holyoke is a gender-inclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, one of the historic Seven Sisters, a group of highly selective women’s liberal arts institutions in the Northeast. Mount Holyoke was founded to challenge the idea that women did not need a liberal arts education,” said Holley. “As

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How schools are adapting to today’s data-driven environment Colleges everywhere are beginning to implement stronger, more robust and highly specialized programs in information and data science. Driving this academic evolution is the need to address the needs of today’s workforce by nurturing students with a modern education.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. Known for its commitment to mentored undergraduate research, Wooster offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in a residential setting. states and 76 countries. Diverse Community: With 27% U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Participants in the program will earn an Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts at BMCC, making P2CP the only CUNY College-in-Prison (CIP) program providing an undergraduate degree in a New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision facility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

College of Liberal Arts at Morgan State is the principal investigator, and Dr. James A. Theories of grounded cognition emphasize that how a person perceives and processes information is shaped by the environment they are within,” Bonny said. “We Dr. Justin Bonny, an assistant professor of psychology in the James H. Gilliam, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Livingstone — a private historically Black college — provides business, liberal arts, STEAM, teacher education, and workforce development programs for students from all ethnic backgrounds.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. They seek rigorous academics and associate that with strong STEM programs in a liberal arts context as the top characteristics of a great university. And they need to prepare themselves for future work, in relevant ways.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students at the liberal arts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. ” As a liberal arts institution, UMN Morris has completely different values that focus on buffing students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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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.

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These campuses harmonize design and education, creating visually captivating and inspiring environments. How to beat the enrollment cliff: Act like Yamaha Unity Environmental University, formerly a liberal arts school serving traditional-aged college students, has transformed its enrollment strategy to address declining K12 student numbers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

said 2020 helped corporations, nonprofits, educational institutions, and government entities see there was crucial work to be done in creating a more just and equitable environment and society. Brooke Vick, chief diversity officer and associate provost for equity and inclusion at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

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. Flexibility and rigor aren’t diametrically opposed.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution.

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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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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. In eighth grade, I was bored — teachers would tell me not to answer questions, or even tell me I was spoiling it, because I was ruining it for others.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Therefore, it is appropriate that consideration be given for an educator’s aptitude to use technological tools in learning environments. How does one effectively build a learning environment when there is only deep understanding of the materials and not the tools needed to create an environment and experiences that foster learning?

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

. “ I believe the ability to manage dialogue and establish relationships in a hybrid environment is critical now for any college,” said Michaele Whelan of Wheaton College (Mass.), according to an email. ” Student success is key President Robert Johnson, Western New England University (Springfield, Mass.)

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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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.”

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

The Digital Futures Institute at King’s has as part of its living-well-with-technology mission a commitment to both recognising the challenges and also finding ways to harness our digital environment for good.

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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

It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. “That’s an advantage that we have that you wouldn’t necessarily see in a small liberal arts college in the middle of the Midwest with many other competing schools.” “I’m very optimistic.”

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

On other hand, changing demographics also mean colleges cannot abandon the liberal arts in favor of career preparation. “A liberal education still prepares students for adaptability in the face of rapid change and the other challenges of the future, of which COVID is emblematic,” she concludes.

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University Business

JULY 3, 2024

” Remapping credentials The prospective employee’s journey in today’s workforce environment can’t be constrained to the four-year degree, Pulsipher says. Pulsipher believes these critics overlook the fact that postsecondary institutions committed to economic mobility are a catalyst for developing engaged citizens.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

In the college environment an intent to persist is needed, and by promoting resiliency in such a way students are encouraged to understand that their own free will and mindset largely influence their success. Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.”

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

By instituting similar programs, universities can create a more robust and supportive environment for international education, representing a holistic approach to internationalisation that recognises the interconnected roles of students, faculty, and staff in creating a truly global campus.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In her course design, readings, discussion structures, and content, LeMay says she incorporates a respectful tone and environment. Opened earlier this year, Coe College Center for Health and Society is an interdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary space for collaboration and conversation about health, wellness, environments and communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

“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. She can see the university in compartments and on a global spectrum,” says Bledsoe-Gardner.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

A project at Montclair State University (MSU), a public research university in New Jersey, focuses on reviving the Native American Munsee language, while faculty and students at Haverford College, a private liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, are working in Oaxaca, Mexico, to safeguard Zapotec languages.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

” Josh Gana, facilities and physical environment director at the Association of College and University Housing Officers–International, said many dormitories in regions with typically temperate or cooler climates were built without air-conditioning to cut costs and make campus residence halls more sustainable.

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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.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ultimately, though, “if you want to be president of a liberal arts college, you’ve got to be able to deal with cantankerous faculty members. You want to see how a president responds to tough questions and to various personalities at a college.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. who exchange ideas and best practices to implement equitable and inclusive strategies on their campuses.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” That statement comes from a tweet by The Dartmouth Review describing UATX, a private liberal arts college proposed in 2021 “dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth.” “The University of Austin looks more and more like a viable challenge to the higher education establishment.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

McGuire was referring to the many changes the university, which was founded as a liberal arts college for women 125 years ago, has undergone in recent decades. She said university administrators have created a supportive environment for student parents like her and are considering “even more resources that they can provide.”

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