University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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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 India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). The $100 million award comes from billionaire couple Ronda Stryker, director and granddaughter of the founder of the medical technology company Stryker Corp.,

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. ” In his words: the proposed model “will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

We are living in an era where AI and technology play crucial roles in various sectors,” said a parent. Teachers must embrace the learning curve of these technologies. Nearly all parents surveyed (96%) are interested in project-based learning, which blends science, history and the arts to tackle real-world issues.

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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

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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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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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Houtman previously served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Alexander Whitaker – King University (Tenn.)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

I’m no Dr. Pangloss, and I certainly don’t want to come across as a hopeless optimist, let alone as an uncritical promoter of the new technology. ” But we must also recognize that their resistance to technology’s advance, however valiant, was futile. It could then serve as initial-tier career counseling.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

A recent article identified some of those processes: climate change, deglobalization, demographic decline, and digital technologies, to which I’d add, challenges to liberal capitalism, liberal democracy, liberal internationalism, and even liberal education. It evolved without a plan or central direction.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. The arts are a point of pride, recruiting from well beyond our region because of their exceptional quality and our access to Broadway. That’s fine and probably even a good idea.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We continuously evolved as we learned about online instruction, gaps in technology access, and the financial and emotional strain on everyone. The arts are a point of pride, recruiting from well beyond our region because of their exceptional quality and our access to Broadway. That’s fine and probably even a good idea.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

College students have a history of stressing over finances. The private liberal arts 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

At a time when many existing institutions find it exceedingly difficult to innovate or be entrepreneurial, weighed down by incumbent technologies, an entrenched faculty, high fixed costs, and unwieldly systems of governance, risk taking, innovation, and creativity, Leschly argues, must come from outside the academy.

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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. Both Jenkins and Gillespie noted that Bates’ commitment to the liberal arts made Jenkins a great fit to foster “student engagement” and a “culture of collaboration.”

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. There, she served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, whose 2000-student population is double the size of Presbyterian’s, according to the college’s website.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” As part of the analysis, researchers looked at whether humanities programs were less likely to grow relative to programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

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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 13, 2022

To promote teaching innovation, institutions establish a teaching center and an instructional design and educational technology center. A supplemental or alternative strategy is to give instructors access to an instructional designer or to a graduate student or advanced undergraduate well versed in instructional technology.

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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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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.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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HEPI

JULY 23, 2024

This long read was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge. The ‘trade’ of Oxford and Cambridge as corporations lay in the study of the artes , the ‘liberal arts’. The grant of the MA has undergone changes.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Michael Meranze, a professor of history at UCLA who has written about the strike, told Inside Higher Ed , “There is no question that the strike has had a real effect on instruction and thereby on the undergraduates. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework.

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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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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

And I haven’t even mentioned all of the languages we teach, the Creative Writing courses we offer, and the fantastic Art History opening your eyes to all kinds of seeing and knowing. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. Just explore! Size matters!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Higher education leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability at their campus can emulate the actions of Illinois Institute of Technology’s ELEVATE program. Our guest today is Dr. Raj Echambadi, president of the Illinois Institute of Technology. And now, here’s your host, Drumm McNaughton.

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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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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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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

As the only full-time art faculty at the college, much of this work fell to me, Nate Wilson, Fine Arts Instructor. While I’m mostly a studio arts guy, drawing, sculpture, painting, and the like, I do have some art history background, both in the classroom and taking students abroad to London.

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