University Business

JUNE 4, 2024

The nonprofit membership organization with over 500 local campus chapters and 39 state organizations believes that much of the uproar against higher education since 2020 derives from a small and coordinated effort by wealthy Republican- and Libertarian-backed megadonors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The program is headed by two organizations housed within Marquette’s Center for Urban Research, Teaching, & Outreach (CURTO). 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.

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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. there were protests on campus.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

history, world history and western civilization. Spielvogel is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at The Pennsylvania State University. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history. in history, and M.A. in art history from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. She organized the community walk. 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.” And sometimes it feels late because she is 110, right?

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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

AUGUST 18, 2022

Thanks to funding from the New York-based Teagle Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting and strengthening liberal arts education and punches well beyond its weight, a number of other institutions have adopted somewhat similar models. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

The World Health Organization defines public health as “all organized measures (whether public or private) to prevent disease, promote health, and prolong life among the population as a whole.” Why Public Health? ” Unique Challenges.

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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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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. Smith, and you think about the fact that we have engaged in partnerships and relationships with local businesses, with schools, with organizations, and with residents,” she says. Kinloch prioritizes alumni engagement.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

College students have a history of stressing over finances. It organically happens through conversations,” he says. The private liberal arts school has dedicated a cohort for first-generation students in MentorGrinnell , a virtual mentorship program that began this fall. The other was managing relationships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There, students get the chance to do research, conduct oral histories, work with community leaders, and help document traumatic and often-silenced refugee stories. Chang shares.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Stig Leschly of College101 argues that existing colleges and universities need “competition from new colleges started by social entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations with experience in education and workforce development.” ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The details of our latest national debate about rigor are well-known by now: in a story that made national news , 82 of 350 students in a New York University organic chemistry class last spring signed a petition claiming the class was too hard. A review of that history can help us reassess that relationship.

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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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. He is a board member for Equal Justice Works – a nonprofit organization dedicated to employing talent in public service – and the National Woman’s Law Center. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It’s adding them July 1.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

A Brief History of American Higher Education Part Three — The Democratization of Institutions and Ideas AAUP At the end of the 19 th and beginning of the 20 th century, there were numerous threats to academic freedom including a handful of celebrated cases. · Every faculty handbook has been shaped by their collective influence.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In my view, a college education shouldn’t just cultivate students’ cognitive, analytic and problem-solving abilities or expand their content knowledge or merely instill the cultural literacies that we associate with a rich liberal arts education. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Educause Review is the publication of Educause, which is the principal organization supporting IT professional in higher education. History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. 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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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. As Gilbert Allardyce observed in his history of the Western Civ survey course , in 1882, only five Harvard classes enrolled 100 or more students; but by 1901, 14 had over 200 students.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

He teaches African American studies and history, among other courses. Jeremy Young, senior manager of free expression and education at PEN America, a free speech advocacy organization, said the Florida college presidents seem to have caved to “political bullying” and written their statement “under duress.”

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. It later became a free-standing organization that has become focused on supporting and accrediting faith-based institutions. They focus on expanding access to all students.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Striking New School professors and allies organized something called Strike School , featuring scholarly talks on labor and other issues online and on the picket line. There’s new union organizing going, new workers getting organized. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

But such spaces remain rare, generally found only at private, progressive liberal arts colleges. Some trans and nonbinary students prefer staying together to living alone even on a gender-neutral hall or in an off-campus apartment because of the social element, said Renn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There, students get the chance to do research, conduct oral histories, work with community leaders, and help document traumatic and often-silenced refugee stories. Chang shares.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

I feel so lucky to get the chance each year to learn about the meaningful, student-focused work being done by various institutions, organizations, and individuals in our community. Today we showcase Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. “A teeny liberal arts college can’t make that investment.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Inquiring minds would like to know.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. Susquehanna was one of the institutions lifted up by the ATI in their annual report for leading the organization in meeting our goals.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

They can also join student organizations and participate in activities at Illinois Tech. But there was no civics, history, geography, or any form of a liberal arts education. The Naval Academy, by legal statute, requires 80% of the graduates to be technical majors in STEM and 20% to get a liberal arts education.

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