Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

The announcement comes at a pivotal moment for the Durango, Colorado, college, which continues to grapple with its history as a former federal Indian boarding school while working to advance its commitment to student success, equity, and community engagement.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But something exciting is happening in the world of higher education. Integrating the arts into STEM (“STEAM”) has been in discussion since at least 2010, when the Rhode Island School of Design helped pioneer it. ” The post Oh, the humanit(ies)!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Marist College, the private school in Poughkeepsie, New York, has announced it will become Marist University effective later this month, marking a significant milestone in its nearly century-long history. The change comes after unanimous approval from the Board of Trustees and the New York State Board of Regents. President Dr. Kevin C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Whirl, who currently serves as president of Augusta Technical College, has built a reputation for strengthening workforce education programs and fostering community partnerships. The cuts sparked heated debate within the campus community about the university's future direction and commitment to its liberal arts tradition.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

We thought it could be an educational moment and that it's about time that we move away from what we might call our assumptions about things and get to the real nitty gritty of what makes America tick. King attended Morehouse, graduating with a degree in sociology in 1948.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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University Business

MAY 19, 2023

The pandemic was more than an inconvenient wrinkle to higher education. It may have transformed the sector for good, and those that cannot adapt shouldn’t be surprised when they close, according to a new joint report from Ernst & Young and Times Higher Education.

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MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

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.” There is absolutely nothing wrong with adapting and evolving.

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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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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2023

It was the first institution of higher education in Florida – which was once part of the slave-owning Confederacy – to pioneer an open admissions policy committing the school not to discriminate based on “race, creed, national origin, or cultural status”. Continue reading.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Aaron is a higher education professional with more than 25 years of experience in enrollment management. He has written previously for RNL about best financial practices for universities and has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. higher education in the world.

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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. Study abroad programs.

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Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Whitman prides itself on a student-to-faculty ratio of 9:1, facilitating personalized education. Popular disciplines include Environmental Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Economics, and Biology.

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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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University Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The college closings and mergers of 2025 Northland College (Wisconsin) Despite recent attempt to save Northland College from financial exigency, the Board of Trustees announced on February 19 that the 133-year-old school will close at the end of the academic year. Centuries of serving higher education erased. A record $1.5

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. Academic Excellence Wabash’s commitment to a rigorous liberal arts education is evident in its comprehensive curriculum and the requirement that seniors pass comprehensive exams.

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University Business

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Chances are closings will continue to uptick as higher education braces for the expected demographic cliff. Centuries of serving higher education erased. Nine schools guaranteed admissions for the college’s remaining students with more than 60 credits completed. If not, the institution shuts its doors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.” 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. The search committee included two student representatives.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

Policymakers will most likely focus on the return on investment, or ROI, of college programs in 2025 to appease taxpayers who are skeptical of higher education. One private liberal arts college overhauled by Florida Gov. Brian Harrison. Taylor Collins.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

1, The school made the announcement Apr. Sams had been appointed president of the school two years ago, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and his inauguration had been held off as the school began to return to full swing. SUNY Old Westbury will be transitioning into a university, effective Jul.

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University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

” “I think we’re going to see schools shift to more non-degree, continuing education courses. “Historically, many four-year schools have been somewhat detached from the job market, focusing more on traditional liberal arts education,” Dinski says. ” U.S. .

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

State universities in West Virginia have an uphill struggle to resuscitate interest in higher education. Ravaged by a poor economy, declining population and an understated opiate crisis , it has the lowest bachelor’s degree level educated percentage of all 50 states. What is a land-grant university’s core principle?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis has appointed six new board members to the New College of Florida, a step towards turning the school into a more conservative institution, the Herald-Tribune reported. "It The students and faculty at New College – a small school – have a reputation for leaning left politically, so a conservative turn may see resistance.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums? New tools.

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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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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. But that doesn’t deter him at all.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

Northland College (Wisconsin) Despite recent attempts to save Northland College from financial exigency, the Board of Trustees announced on February 19 that the 133-year-old school will close at the end of the academic year. million fundraising effort provided by over one thousand donations saved the school from closing last spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

She will be the first woman to lead the school. In Safa Zaki, Bowdoin has found a distinguished scholar and leader with a global perspective who believes deeply in the transformative power of a liberal arts education,” said Scott Perper, chair of the Bowdoin board and a member of the Presidential Search Committee.

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MindMax

MAY 20, 2024

There was a great opinion piece in Inside Higher Ed recently calling on Governor Gavin Newsom and the State of California to intentionally create small public liberal arts colleges alongside the many existing large ones. Another is offering alternative pathways to a traditional education.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. even before it added the “G” to its acronym.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No After the default, Bergh and Cazenovia’s other leaders embarked on a desperate search for a way to save the school. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

higher ed institution. DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. Wellesley College acknowledges the result of the nonbinding student ballot initiative,” the school said in a statement. 14 to allow transgender men and nonbinary people assigned male at birth to be eligible for admission, The Washington Post reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

George Timmons will become president of Holyoke Community College, pending approval of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, MassLive reported. He has previously been dean of the School of Liberal Arts and founding dean of online education at Excelsior College.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies.

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