University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

We are now well past the six-month mark for the delayed delivery of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) information to college campuses and students. With these grants, we can offer a high-quality liberal arts education at a minimal cost to bright and dedicated students who otherwise could not afford to attend.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. Alma College President Jeff Abernathy has informed the board of trustees he will be stepping down following 14 years at his post, according to a school statement. Stepping down Jeff Abernathy – Alma College (Mich.)

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

A new school at the University of Southern California will be dedicated to teaching data science and information technology to non-computer majors in order to prepare them for an increasingly digital world. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

“HBCUs come with a tremendous amount of history. By the middle of the 20th century, KC had become a liberal arts institution with a reputation for organizing social justice movements like sit-ins. KC was founded in 1875 by the United Presbyterian Church for the education of newly freed men and women.

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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. And so on … The other thing that keeps me up at night is that recurring dream where I need to take the final for a history class I didn’t realize I was registered for. Not for nothing, the pandemic drew us closer.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts. Mrs. Renfrow Smith’s sense of inherent significance also emanates from knowing her family history. Guided by the motto “Work. Support thyself.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 “Overall, the lack of progress on faculty diversity in the U.S. Lewis, assistant professor of communication at Cornell; and Elan C.

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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. I’m a sociologist but also an historian, so I go through the history of race in America starting with the genocide of Native Americans, slavery, and trying to explain how slavery worked, how powerful slave holders were at the time, all that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

One striking example was highlighted in the case of a highly regarded private liberal arts college in the Midwest when it recently issued a public announcement about the creation of a department of African Diaspora studies on campus.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Students obtain essential networking and community-building skills while developing a sense of leadership that is not informed by “heteronormative and cisnormative practices,” says John Weinstein, PhD, the college’s provost and vice president. The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

“With the amount of information going around and a lot of the misinformation and a lot of the confusion and all of the policies that came out of it, it just opened my eyes to what policy is and how we create policy. After her high school shut down in 2020, “I started following everything on the news,” she recalled.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Work Zones The MCSS, along with various state and national partners, is currently leading three initiatives focused on improving transfer: Strengthening MiHumanities , Strengthening MiWorkforce Pathways and Liberal Arts Pathways From Community Colleges to Independent Institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately. We stepped back into the classroom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

“And so, just to help people become more culturally competent – whether that is faculty or other staff – we are hoping that we can come in and help people get the training and the information they need so that they can better serve our community.” Chang shares.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A review of that history can help us reassess that relationship. This discussion should be informed by an understanding, at each college and in each discipline, of how much homework is assigned now, how homework expectations have changed over time and why. Does it matter if assignments are team-based?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Phenomenon-based learning dares classrooms to examine today’s complex global challenges that we are ever more informed of thanks to social media, and it compels students to look at them through an educational lens.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Much as AI text generation can, I am convinced, strengthen student writing, AI image generators can inform visual literacy and arts education and set a new bar for artistic creativity. Also, imagine if the platform extracted campus-specific information about gen ed and major requirements. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

Taylor will now be relying on his professional and lived experiences to inform how he approaches his work as vice president of hope, unity and belonging at Belmont University, a Christian institution in Nashville, Tenn.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Wrote one, “Electives help round out a personal’s exposure to the arts, sciences, etc., ” Said another, “Those electives informed a lifetime of interests and reading outside of work. and continental European model, in which the liberal arts portion of a college education takes place in high school.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. ” But it is not always easy to suss out some information, she said. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4 It also emphasized the importance of how programs are developed.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. There, she served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, whose 2000-student population is double the size of Presbyterian’s, according to the college’s website.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St. Over the past 10 months, a number of U.S. Joseph University , a Catholic institution of about 2,000 students in Cincinnati.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

When the Waldorf Foundation purchased the private liberal arts school in December 2022, the Business Affairs department was tasked with managing procurement themselves which involved a steep learning curve. For instance, Academics is a group and each individual department is a subgroup, such as “education” and “history.”

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

We regret that this incorrect information was included in our article and have republished this post with the section removed. The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics.

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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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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

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. These typically include a “valedictory,” which is literally a farewell speech to the graduating class.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

“And so, just to help people become more culturally competent – whether that is faculty or other staff – we are hoping that we can come in and help people get the training and the information they need so that they can better serve our community.” Chang shares.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. It is coordinated by NACUBO. ·

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University Business

AUGUST 7, 2023

Thomas in January during a pivotal period in its 139-year history. Once a s mall Catholic liberal arts college, St. Vischer draws on the pillars of Catholic education to inform his mission, and he credits it to his university’s success. Rob Vischer took over the University of St. ” How can St.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Michael Meranze, a professor of history at UCLA who has written about the strike, told Inside Higher Ed , “There is no question that the strike has had a real effect on instruction and thereby on the undergraduates. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework. ” Union Activity on the Rise.

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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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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

As the only full-time art faculty at the college, much of this work fell to me, Nate Wilson, Fine Arts Instructor. While I’m mostly a studio arts guy, drawing, sculpture, painting, and the like, I do have some art history background, both in the classroom and taking students abroad to London.

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