Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Under his leadership, Augusta Tech achieved record enrollment this past fall through strategic program revamps, the establishment of new academic schools, and successful fundraising initiatives that brought renewed vitality to the predominantly Black institution. "We

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

Background Founded in 1837 by Presbyterian leaders, Davidson College is a private liberal arts college located in Davidson, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte. Curricula Davidson College offers a broad and rigorous liberal arts education, exclusively focused on undergraduate learning. billion as of 2023.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

JANUARY 28, 2023

Governor’s latest shot in his war on woke is the shock appointment of rightwing trustees to progressive New College New College of Florida started making history from the day it opened its doors to its first incoming class of 101 undergraduate students in 1964. Continue reading.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How schools are adapting to today’s data-driven environment Colleges everywhere are beginning to implement stronger, more robust and highly specialized programs in information and data science. The post Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences appeared first on University Business.

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MindMax

JULY 15, 2024

Steven Mintz, author and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, posits that higher ed has strayed too far from its traditional purpose: providing a holistic liberal arts education that produces students who are “life-ready.” The answer will be different for every school—and potentially even every program.

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Edu Alliance Journal

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Background Established in 1832, Wabash College is a private liberal arts institution dedicated exclusively to undergraduate education for men. ” Continuity of Leadership Wabash has a history of stable and effective leadership, providing consistent direction and long-term strategic planning. And our faculty and staff too.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 14, 2025

Established initially as the Tuskegee Normal School for training Black teachers, it evolved into Tuskegee Institute and eventually a university known for blending liberal arts, technical, and professional education. The university balances a liberal arts foundation with strong STEM and professional programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Under her leadership, the law school increased its national profile, created new programming and pulled in more funding and resources. Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia. The news has not been good.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members. Focus on the Future.

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University Business

APRIL 2, 2025

We are committed to securing the best possible options for our students, faculty and staff and believe this merger with Villanova offers the best opportunity to ensure that the Rosemont College history and legacy endures.” million fundraising effort provided by over one thousand donations saved the school from closing last spring.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26. 2022), 16-26.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

South Royalton’s main claim to fame, however, is that it is home to the Green Mountain State’s only law school. Vermont Law School has doled out juris doctor degrees to students from across New England and beyond since 1972. Vermont Law School is no different. even before it added the “G” to its acronym.

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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. The president-designate was NYU’s Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs and University Life for the past decade and is a lifetime member of the school’s senior leadership team.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

If we are going to build a human bridge, we have to know each other and understand our histories,” said Garcetti. “We The work that we do… helps folks to come to research topics of common interest from science, and social sciences to medicine and history,” said Garcetti. “I Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India.

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University Business

MARCH 7, 2025

An experienced leader in his own right, Benson is the current president of Coastal Carolina University, where he secured a $10 million gift, the largest in school history, according to a university statement. Kiss also served 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College, an all-womens liberal arts college in Atlanta.

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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. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

A new school at the University of Southern California will be dedicated to teaching data science and information technology to non-computer majors in order to prepare them for an increasingly digital world.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The work was done in collaboration with the provost.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 3, 2023

Last month, for the first time in Manhattanville's history, tenured faculty in the arts and humanities were pushed away. But now they will follow a CUNY/SUNY big school format, with most courses taught by adjunct faculty. One needs to ask "How can a small liberal arts college survive under the current financial climate?"

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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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University Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

President Doug Hicks graduated from Davidson College at a time not too far separated from when the small private liberal arts college still capped enrollment of women. “We have made a lot of strides based on many efforts to name our history dating back to 1837,” Hicks says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

years that she attended the small, private liberal arts college. A second-generation Iowan and proud Grinnellian, Renfrow Smith is an educator who taught for over twenty years in the Chicago Public School System and spent four decades volunteering in her community. And sometimes it feels late because she is 110, right?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall. Leaders at Massasoit Community College are optimistic about the future the school's recently launched Black Studies program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith. It made her the first alumna to be president of the private women’s liberal arts college in its 130-year history. Under her watch, Meredith has blossomed.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

In dual enrollment programs, high school students take college classes that count for both high school credit and college credit. Senior years of high school (at least in the US) are notoriously full of electives; if an elective slot or two is devoted to college courses, so be it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2023

If the school is able to regain accreditation, as those involved believe will happen soon, students will be able to access federal financial aid funding and state funding opportunities, including the Tennessee Student Assistance Award , which offers repayment-free financial aid to students from low-income backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

Two weeks later, he will walk across the stage to receive his high school diploma, adding one last credential to the collection he’s been building since he was 11 years old, when he took his first dual enrollment courses. He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Sniegowski holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the Indiana University School of Music; an M.A.

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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. Instead, I moved to D.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. In New York City?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

Similarly attuned to intrinsic Black girl value, Nannie Helen Burroughs (1883-1961) founded The National Training School for Women and Girls [NTS] in Washington, DC. To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, if we adopt a more restrictive definition of the humanities, only 4 percent of college graduates in 2020 majored in traditional humanistic fields, including English, history, philosophy and foreign languages and literature. Something of the sort already happens in law, medical and business schools.

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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. The 164-year-old college, which offers 21 varsity programs across 10 different NCAA sports, has an especially long history in college basketball, dating back to 1901.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This changing landscape presents significant opportunities for schools to increase revenue, grow enrollments, and boost persistence and graduation rates. A Brief History of Summer Programming The history of summer programming at higher education institutions can be broken down into three distinct eras. Study abroad programs.

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