Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

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. Their move toward professional degrees (BFA, BM) offers insights into how arts and liberal arts disciplines can thrive in a world that is questioning the value of a liberal arts degree.

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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. ” But enrollment has since declined.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. The Charleston, South Carolina, native had mostly Black teachers from kindergarten to high school, and they served as possibility models for her. The three of them have just been the types of mentors and models that I aspire to be,” says Kinloch.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Her list of published work is exhaustive with a special interest in using “computational approaches to model cognitive processes that focus on how people divide the world into categories,” according to Bowdoin College’s website. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history.

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University Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising. “We have the most diverse student body in Allegheny’s history,” Cole says.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

and continental European model, in which the liberal arts portion of a college education takes place in high school. Like it or not, the current 120-credit hour tripartite curricular model, divided roughly equally between gen ed, major and elective courses, has become problematic. Want an approach closer to the U.K.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Insofar as these ideas are practical and scalable, they resemble the models already deployed by Southern New Hampshire University and Western Governors University. ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. ” So what, then, are the answers? All this sounds quite vague.

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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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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. Liberal Arts Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education , edited by J. Roth, Michael: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Model clearly organized descriptive and argumentative writing on particular topics. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Solve math problems and debug programs step by step. Provide first drafts of course syllabi. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The authors state their rationale and goals up front: The conventional model of higher education is facing growing skepticism. We describe an alternate model for baccalaureate education that offers key levers for addressing these challenges. To understand the potential role this model could play, we need to review a little history.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. His leadership career has spanned several HBCUs, and he is currently writing a history of African Americans in Alabama. Despite this, Smith Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Years ago, I heard a prominent Georgetown faculty member propose a very different model for how the institution could better serve its local community. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. But it could, in my opinion, do something that no MOOC, no matter how well designed, could.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Some of these overreaches have been in response to faculty serving as expert witness in court cases in which their testimony was unfavorable to the state’s position; some are battles over ideology; some are acts of political theatre; and some are attempts to whitewash history. This includes the literature, music, and art we teach and study.

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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. What a great business model that is!” Rob Vischer took over the University of St. If we succeed in doing that, I don’t care what else happens. ” says Vischer.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This may involve re-evaluating institutional missions and embracing more flexible, career-focused educational models. He is known for his insights on data modeling in admissions, financial aid strategies, and non-academic criteria in admissions, contributing to several national publications and speaking at conferences.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. Higher Ed needs to be a role model for these type of things. [00:07:53] Philly Mantella: A hundred percent.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

” This document, a noteworthy publication in AGB’s 110-year history and only the 13th such statement, addresses crucial issues in contemporary educational governance. And I sit actually as a trustee on a small, liberal arts college halfway around the world called High Gaussian College. Good to see you. [00:31:52]

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

One solution to rising tuition costs would be that a large consortium of schools, e.g., PAC-12 schools or all Midwest liberal arts schools that happen to compete with one another, should announce they are not going to raise tuition by more than inflation each year for the next ten years. The main focus now is career readiness.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges. Justin Grimes: So one thing you really want to think about when it comes to the recruitment of masters students is really knowing the funding models, right?

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in. The pandemic, an event timestamped in the history of U.S. For the first time in her career, she was the president of a university. But this was March of 2020. “The world turned upside down,” she says.

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University Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Since guiding the institution through the grips of the pandemic and navigating the liberal arts institution’s students and staff through new modes of learning and teaching, he’s finally returned to center. The launch of this advising model has coincided with the rise of higher education’s campus mental health crisis.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

7 November · Episode 180 A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model 36 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton This conversation–rooted in the findings of E&Y white paper: How are you balancing the books for a digital future? covers the global shift in Higher Education.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

I still wear my 30-year-old three-striped model, which was a graduation present from my wife. 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. Those stripes may be black, or the color of the discipline.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

In academia, I've always been enamored with folks who can work the art of leadership in a really clear way, all kinds of models, all kinds of people who've inspired me to think, 'If I could just steal a little of that, a little of that.' I think you put together the picture that makes sense for you."

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

In her “backward design” model, Link crafts her strategic plan by engaging with campus stakeholders, dissecting the building blocks of a university’s governance structure, and ingratiating herself with the region’s employers. “We look at our history. But the act was more than a kind gesture.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. He considers this proposal as a model for how midtier institutions might thrive in today’s highly stratified, increasingly competitive higher education ecosystem.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

Here, I’d like to discuss the history of general education: its rise, fall, current status and need to be radically rethought and reimagined. I taught in Columbia’s core curriculum, and I consider it a model of what a lower-division undergraduate education can be. That proved to be the model that most institutions followed.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Illinois Tech embraces a hybrid model due to student demand and to increase accessibility for those who work full-time jobs, for example. But there was no civics, history, geography, or any form of a liberal arts education. We were required to take a lot of liberal arts courses. Create a platform model.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

But history without theory is thin gruel, and social scientists like Brint and Labaree play a crucial role in identifying the conceptual issues that their historian counterparts at times downplay. Let’s begin with the history of American higher education. As Professor Labaree makes clear, this history is highly distinctive.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In its prime, middlebrow culture filled the gap between the avant-garde and kitsch, garish, overly sentimental and tasteless, schlock and between elite and pulp fiction, ivory tower, egghead academic writing and trash and art music and popular tunes and jingles. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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