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 American educational institutions, and bring some improvement.'

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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

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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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. For example, what difference does a population of 1,500 students at one institution make in the grand scheme of higher ed? Those students can always go to a larger institution.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

The Institute for Race and Social Transformation (iRaST) will undertake an in-depth examination of historical and contemporary social issues that impact the local community. The post Rhodes College to Establish Institute for Race and Social Transformation appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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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’m just really excited to lead such a dynamic and important institution like Mount Holyoke,” said Holley in an interview with Diverse. “I

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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?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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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. Ohio State University.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). Of the $100 million, $75 million will go to endowed scholarships to attract future students while removing financial barriers, according to the institution.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While most institutions and their academic programs faltered during the worst of the pandemic, this STEM subset thrived, growing 6.2% art history students are tasked with creating a search on the cost and origin of 17th-century textiles, for example, according to the school’s website. from 2017 to 2022.

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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. That experience comprises roles with Craven Community College, including dean of Liberal Arts and University Transfer, director of Planning and Assessment, and Science, Math, Health/PE chair. Pharr starts the role Aug.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

They were both American-focused courses, one on the history of American education and the other on the history of American public policy. Like my courses in the United States, I engaged my Qatari students in a critical history of the United States, one that centered the history of race. But they never came.

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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

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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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. Joseph University , a Catholic institution of about 2,000 students in Cincinnati. colleges and universities.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

According to the Institute of International Education Open Doors Report 2020, over 3,300 US students studied in India in 2018-2019, which further fell to 1,736 students in 2019-20, according to the US Department of State. “When I read many great religious, philosophical, historical texts of India it changed my life and perspective.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. The top 3 percent holds 80 percent. They’re not. It isn’t.

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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. As much as the college claims on its front page to "put focus on the future," the reality is that of less caring, financially unstable institution. The Manhattanville faculty is the heart of the institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Doing that at a prestigious Research 1 institution was too important to pass up. 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.

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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. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs. She is the first Black female president in the school’s 186-year history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

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. Third, culture centers serve as propagators and stewards of Black history and cultural traditions of African Americans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

It’s taken months of collaboration across institutions, but east Tennessee’s only Historically Black College and University (HBCU) is on track to regain accreditation. Knoxville College (KC), a private institution, lost its accreditation in 1997. HBCUs come with a tremendous amount of history. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

is a collective failure perpetuated by our focus on institution-level changes,” wrote authors J. Across 1,250 institutions, the percentage of underrepresented tenure-line faculty members increased by 0.23 The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Meanwhile, the U.S.

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University Business

JUNE 11, 2024

Many institutions are already facing serious financial and planning hardships. 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. As a result, some may never enter college. Some may not recover.

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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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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

He began as the director of the institution’s stock portfolio, transitioning four years later to the vice president for advancement. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. Laurie Patton – Middlebury College (Vt.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. At 110 years old, she is the college’s first Black alumna and the oldest living graduate of the institution. But it is still a very big milestone in Grinnell taking accountability for its history and making sure that it honors all the pioneers that have come.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith. It made her the first alumna to be president of the private women’s liberal arts college in its 130-year history. No great institution should be a best-kept secret.” Under her watch, Meredith has blossomed.

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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. However, a word of caution to institutions eyeing cannabis education – legal scrutiny looms large.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. That amount will be spread out across its 37 member institutions. The post $100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College appeared first on University Business. which we know today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

So far, the program has seen a slow uptake, but leaders are optimistic about its future, hopeful and dedicated to building and growing the program at a time when other institutions are cutting back on ethnic and Black studies programs amid pushback against diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Q: What is keeping you and your peers at other institutions up at night? 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. A lure for high-achieving, exceptionally motivated applicants who might otherwise attend a private institution, and a magnet for donor dollars.

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