Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Notably, each of those courses takes a week out of the semester – often in March – to allow the private women's liberal arts college’s students to travel to destinations associated with their respective course, at no additional cost. “We And as a liberal arts college, we know we have a great academic curriculum.

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MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

I came across an interesting article recently that suggests higher ed has forgotten its aim. Steven Mintz, author and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, posits that higher ed has strayed too far from its traditional purpose: providing a holistic liberal arts education that produces students who are “life-ready.”

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

So, when it came time for him to pick an academic pursuit, the study of Latinos and sports history naturally came to mind. I just wanted to understand what [the history was] behind this,” says Burgos. “I Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Higher Education Reading List One of our wonderful trustees recently asked me to recommend a higher-education reading list. Here it is: Newsletters and Magazines I start each weekday with a review of these three: Inside Higher Ed publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.” She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. At my core, I’m a teacher and a scholar.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

The University of Mary Washington, a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has received the largest gift in its 115-year history - a $30 million estate gift from alum Irene Piscopo Rodgers.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

It makes sense, considering how higher education faces revitalized pressure from students— and the federal government —to ensure high-value degrees with strong returns on investment. in the next decade, 12 points higher than the national average, according to Education Dynamics, a higher education market research company.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

13, becoming the first woman in the college’s 63-year history to serve as president. Andrews University as well as a master’s in science education and a doctorate in higher education administration from East Carolina University. Pharr starts the role Aug. She holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from St.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

India became the number one source of higher education students to America for the second year,” said Garcetti, who served as the guest of honour at the conference. “Over 1 million students in the US come from this incredible country. Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

A USC sociology, history or dance major may not be attuned to the discipline of quantum computing, but the university's soon to open School of Advanced Computing will open its doors to all — as well as dramatically expand the number of degrees it confers in technology-related fields, officials announced Thursday.

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University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

In turn, they are losing the chance to break multi-generational cycles of poverty and other limits—the core promise of American higher education. More from UB: 12 key traits of a successful higher education leader At Antioch, FAFSA enables access for the vast majority of our students to secure federal Pell Grants.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. All arts programs at WCSU are focused on top tier professional training, fully preparing our students to work in these competitive and in-demand industries. What are those habits of mind?

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. All arts programs at WCSU are focused on top tier professional training, fully preparing our students to work in these competitive and in-demand industries. What are those habits of mind?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.” Previously frozen programs are those in African studies, Asian studies, film studies, French, museum studies, music, music education and world religions, professors said. Focus on the Future.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. Laurie Patton – Middlebury College (Vt.)

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The awful truth is that the wealthiest institutions are so flush with resources that they are deforming the entire system of higher education. More than that, I’m appalled by their failure to do more to assist the higher ed ecosystem as a whole. Such an argument, the authors show, is grossly exaggerated.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Enter Roanoke College, a small liberal arts college in Virginia, making headlines by launching a cannabis studies program with two majors and a minor—a first in the Commonwealth and a rarity on the East Coast. But do not mistake it for an education in rolling joints and getting high.

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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. Why is that?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

I like being able to work with students, faculty, and colleagues in a different kind of way [that] made me more aware of the community of higher education and not just a department, class, or advising relationship with a student. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith. To me, it felt bigger.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As a student activist, a longtime faculty member, and an administrator in higher education, I am particularly proud of two career accomplishments. One was fifty years ago at Earlham , a small Quaker liberal arts college, where I helped repurpose a college-owned house into a Black culture center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. He is currently writing a book, Persistence of Error: A Natural History of Mutation, explaining genetic mutation for non-scientists. He will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus. The program got approval last spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The courses span various fields – including criminology, social welfare and justice, and history – and touch on topics such as mass incarceration, surveillance, poetry, and the psychology of adolescent development. The program makes available “blended courses” that bring CFI students and Marquette undergrads into the same classrooms.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

“There are challenges facing higher education institutions, particularly smaller liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, from which SFC is not immune. The 164-year-old college, which offers 21 varsity programs across 10 different NCAA sports, has an especially long history in college basketball, dating back to 1901.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. This week, Grinnell will dedicate and name its newest residence hall in honor of Renfrow Smith, recognizing her legacy, life, and commitment to community, education, and equity. And sometimes it feels late because she is 110, right?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, if we adopt a more restrictive definition of the humanities, only 4 percent of college graduates in 2020 majored in traditional humanistic fields, including English, history, philosophy and foreign languages and literature. Source: CUPA-HR 2021-22 Survey of Faculty in Higher Education. What’s behind this decline?

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 3, 2023

Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. Today, there are no more tenured faculty in many of the humanities and art disciplines and degrees such in Art History, Languages, Music, Technical Theatre, and many more, have been frozen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

7 faculty meeting – will make Williams the first small liberal arts college in New England to establish such a program, according to Dr. Stephen Tifft, chair of the Committee on Educational Affairs (CEA) and professor of English. The vote – done at a Dec. The proposal for the program argued for the need for AAS given the U.S.’s

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Two new hires are expected this year.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

At this rate, the paper says, “higher education will never achieve demographic parity among tenure-track faculty.” The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 percentage points per year. percentage points per year in the period studied. percentage points per year.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

14 November · Episode 181 Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment 42 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

in educational administration (higher education leadership) from Indiana State University; a Master of Liberal Arts in African American studies from Temple; a Master of Science in Education in educational psychology and guidance (college student personnel) from EIU; a B.A.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

President Doug Hicks graduated from Davidson College at a time not too far separated from when the small private liberal arts college still capped enrollment of women. ” Managing the cost of higher education Alumni are most enthusiastic about supporting students with financial aid, Hicks attests.

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