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. in health policy in 1994 from Brandeis University. She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs. Mount Union (Ohio), St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. As early as the program’s first course, students will be taught about policy issues, incarceration, criminal justice, and racial bias as it relates to cannabis, Poli said. "We

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Amalya benEzra, a junior in Brandeis University’s Health: Science, Society, and Policy program, said she decided to study public health because the pandemic made her aware of the challenges in health communications and policy, which she hadn’t previously considered. ” Ruby H. ” Unique Challenges.

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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. Q: Your Ph.D. is in linguistics.

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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. A more profound problem, which the Harvard professor of public policy Robert D.

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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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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. Fast forward, and now they are churning out chemistry and business majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Projecting ahead at these rates of change, the percentage of underrepresented tenure-line faculty at liberal arts colleges in 2060 would be 19 percentage points behind the general population, compared to a gap of 22 percentage points across institutions studied.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., Photo courtesy Sarah Kenyon) “BQLP offered a unique opportunity to start my college career earlier than expected and a chance to learn how best to advocate for change,” says Alice Billings, a BQLP student who is also undertaking a concentration in history. “I

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Many came to the sleepy village in central Vermont because of the college’s sharp focus on environmental law and policy, as well as its progressive outlook on justice. He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. “I’m very optimistic.”

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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.

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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

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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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

A small private, often religiously oriented liberal arts college struggling with a poor budget deficit can no longer rely on a regional pool of traditional-aged college students due to demographic changes. If it fails, it shuts its doors. Centuries of serving higher education erased.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. King’s community must have held Whitaker in high regard, for the Christian university received its largest individual alumni gift and unrestricted financial gift in its 157-year history.

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. Failure to do more to share the wealth is likely to provoke a policy backlash.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Embrace the applied and the practical liberal arts: Why not offer liberal arts majors or certificates that offer a vocational payoff, for example, in development and philanthropy, multimodal communication, including visual and online communication, policy planning and analysis, technical writing, or translation?

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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. “We Patterns of racialization in the U.S. Chang shares.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

Drumm McNaughton: Well, you’re part of that 1% that many folks say has been able to leverage a liberal arts background. Right, because most people with a liberal arts background do very well long term, so. History degree , a lot of times is going in and memorizing dates, what happened, et cetera.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. But we can learn from experience and draw upon those lessons as we make decisions that will shape the future. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image: Scholars in Florida are angry, disappointed and divided over a recent joint statement , signed by Florida College System presidents, promising to “not fund or support any institutional practice, policy, or academic requirement that compels belief in critical race theory or related concepts.”

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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

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

MAY 10, 2024

“Others that have a long history—or even a short history—but don’t have that specific attention tend to maintain just a steady state.” Before becoming the private liberal arts school’s second president, he was a founding faculty member and became the dean of faculty after SUA graduated its first class.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

“Appealing to a principle of ‘color-blindness’ at odds with history and law, the Court’s conservative majority says, ‘trust us’ while it imposes its will on higher education’s admission policies,” Roth and Gonzalez wrote in an email.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

But such spaces remain rare, generally found only at private, progressive liberal arts colleges. “It can be controversial, so when a campus does it, it’s sort of a policy statement that says, ‘We are committed to supporting trans students.’”

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

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. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

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. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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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. Dark blue, which is aligned with philosophy is often the stand in for Ph.D. degrees is a variety of disciplines, but that is usually the choice of the consumer.

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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. “We Patterns of racialization in the U.S. 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.

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