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Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberalarts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberalarts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.
. “We mustn’t kill liberal education in order to save it, but we must also recognize that it is under genuine threat and that if it fails to adapt, it will only become even more marginal and peripheral,” wrote Steven Mintz, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.
These programs too often lead to “poor outcomes, including poor retention, poor graduate employability, and poor long-term earnings potential,” the authors said. The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberalarts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology.
“HBCUs come with a tremendous amount of history. By the middle of the 20th century, KC had become a liberalarts institution with a reputation for organizing social justice movements like sit-ins. When we think about retention rates, especially with Black males—HBCUs are still significant.
During her approximately 24 years at EIU, she also served as director of academic services for its athletics department; instructor in its African American studies department; and academic and retention adviser for its Office of Inclusion and Academic Engagement. And from 2002 to 2006, she served as academic adviser for Temple University.
She is only the second woman to hold the position in the school’s 157-year history. The New Era of Excellence includes seamless pathways for student success and a strong graduation rate due to increasing enrollment and effective retention strategies.
Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion. The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of LiberalArts and Sciences. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.
A review of that history can help us reassess that relationship. ” Moreover, more time spent on academic work translates into higher retention and graduation rates. Understandably, discussion of the NYU incident focused on the toll the pandemic has taken on students’ emotional and physical health.
While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance.
” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberalarts 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.
College students have a history of stressing over finances. The private liberalarts school has dedicated a cohort for first-generation students in MentorGrinnell , a virtual mentorship program that began this fall. Time and time again, managing finances after graduation dominated the brainstorming sessions.
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.
At Susquehanna, we receive a list of 222 “national liberalarts colleges.” Some, like Wall Street Journal/THE assess all institutions together rather than separating liberalarts colleges from large universities or institutions that recruit regionally versus nationally. None of those institutions were in the U.S.
To raise retention rates and help diversify access to high demand fields, campuses expand existing learning support centers, including writing, math and science learning centers; summer bridge programs; and supplemental instruction in fields experiencing high attrition rates. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?:
Mental Health TEAS will bring aboard an additional full-time clinical therapist as well to help boost Asian American student retention and completion. The professor will be based on the Hartford campus in UConn’s College of LiberalArts and Sciences. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.
These changes are reshaping how colleges and universities must embrace an adaptive approach to student recruitment and retention. Bill Conley William Conley began his career in education as an AP History teacher and coach at Delbarton School, transitioning into higher education enrollment management in 1980.
Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberalarts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberalarts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberalarts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?
So I guess that just means, we’ve had a history of,when we have problems, we just need to crack on and solve them because if we wait for other people to help the problem will have overtaken us. And of course, when they do that well, that makes a huge difference to student retention. And of course the reverse is also true.
This holistic approach encompasses marketing, recruitment, admissions, and retention strategies, all aimed at achieving optimal enrollment and graduation rates. You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberalarts colleges.
And in 2021, they brought in the largest class in Lynn’s 60 year history. But Transylvania, we are a private liberalarts institution. But for us, we saw a pretty big bump in our retention rates this past year. So with that, I’m going to stop the slide share and welcome our guests. And that’s okay.
She is the first woman to achieve this position in the university’s 100-year history. Kirk has a longstanding history with Concordia, which is her alma mater. Another accomplishment for the history books is the university’s first increase in enrollment in a decade this fall.
What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberalarts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberalarts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.
ACC responded by implementing the community college success formula – a multi-pronged approach to student retention and success that has become widespread thanks, in part, to the intrepid efforts of the Community College Research Center: Provide every student with a clear degree map. Excuse making helps no one.
Background Established in 1923, Alice Lloyd College (ALC) is a private liberalarts college located in Pippa Passes, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia. The Colleges “Caney Scholars” program emphasizes leadership, community service, and personal responsibility, complementing traditional liberalarts education.
If you’re going to ban DEI as an office, does that mean you are banning support, retention, and recruitment programs in which underrepresented minorities are being recruited or are there retention efforts specifically for women in STEM?” It’s such a broad topic that general threats to ban it alarm practitioners, he says. “If
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