Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

The University of Mary Washington, a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has received the largest gift in its 115-year history - a $30 million estate gift from alum Irene Piscopo Rodgers. Rodgers had previously created eight Alvey scholarships.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

“There are challenges facing higher education institutions, particularly smaller liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, from which SFC is not immune. Francis College will continue to honor current athletic scholarships. Francis College Board of Trustees, said in a statement.

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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. I think the answer is yes and, as we will see, this builds on the history of university honors, which has radically reworked its model over the past century. Honors 4.0.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. which we know today.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., The college also provides a $20,000 annual Queer Leadership scholarship to qualifying students. is a unit of Bard College in New York and is designed as an early college program for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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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

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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

However, if this tool is to live up to its potential, it must mine the proprietary databases in which serious scholarship resides. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Yet to my mind, the platform, even in its current form, is an asset that faculty would be remiss not to leverage.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And when fall grades will be determined, and by whom, have been open questions at both the New School and UC—which is particularly worrisome to students who rely on grade point averages to maintain scholarships and U.S. visa statuses. Learning at the New School. “Some students are in dire need,” Yang said.

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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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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. pass on the resources and scholarship funding for the student, and for them to be employed in a paid experiential learning.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Whether it comes from within or from parents or from majors or scholarships that require a minimum grade point average, academic pressure is greater. He, like me, attended a liberal arts college, and that was truly a magical time. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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University Business

AUGUST 8, 2024

In the postsecondary realm, Walz approved a $650 million budget, which ignited a last-dollar scholarship program last year affording tuition-free schooling to state residents. Merharry Medical College stated intends to use portion of Bloomberg’s gift on scholarships. 2 Performing Arts 65.9 3 Art History 62.3

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Susquehanna President's Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

In their best times, they have borne a commitment to ecumenicalism, and each has a rich history of scholarship and teaching. As a modern liberal-arts university, Susquehanna’s culture has been shaped by its Lutheran Heritage in important ways. For centuries, faith and reason have met in the world’s great universities.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

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. Berger-Sweeney raised over $600,000 to create a new scholarship fund at the turn of the college’s 200th anniversary.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. I certainly wouldn’t. What, then, is the alternative?

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University Business

JUNE 4, 2024

AAUP concedes CRT inspired grassroots social justice movements during the pandemic, but the organization also believes that contemporary academic framework was built on decades of scholarship, peer review and debate on race, gender, American history and social equality.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Provide more experiential learning opportunities. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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. The volume, like Professor Labaree’s entire body of scholarship is remarkably wide-ranging.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

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. We were required to take a lot of liberal arts courses.

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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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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. [00:00:28]

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. 00:38:24] And there are a lot of those models, particularly among smaller, liberal arts institutions. And there’s no question that we are overpopulated with small undifferentiated liberal arts institutions.

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