Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 17, 2025

Background Founded in 1859, Whitman College is a private liberal arts institution located in Walla Walla, Washington. Curricula Whitman College offers over 45 majors and numerous minors spanning the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Since 2000, students have secured more than 600 awards.

Liberal Arts

The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 15, 2025

A highly sought-after higher education consultant with 20+ years of experience, Dr. McNaughton works with leadership, management, and boards of both U.S. Drumm McNaughton: Well, you’re part of that 1% that many folks say has been able to leverage a liberal arts background. and international institutions.

Higher Education

Edu Alliance Journal

MARCH 3, 2025

Background The College of Wooster, founded in 1866, is a private liberal arts institution located in Wooster, Ohio. Known for its commitment to mentored undergraduate research, Wooster offers a comprehensive liberal arts education in a residential setting. states and 76 countries.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2025

“Most of the challenges that we’re dealing with as a global enterprise require an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving, and so students need an understanding of not only the humanities, but they need an appreciation and understanding of the sciences,” Nelms says. “To Thomas says the urgency of the moment requires bold leadership.

Arts And Sciences

Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 7, 2025

Background Founded in 1749, Washington and Lee University (W&L) is a private liberal arts college located in Lexington, Virginia. The school became coeducational in 1985 and is consistently ranked among the top liberal arts colleges nationally. It later took on its current name in honor of Robert E.

Liberal Arts

Academe Blog

MAY 7, 2025

We can all think of dozens of such ads, and they need to include a defense of the humanities and the social sciences, too, no matter how much easier it is to sell medical and engineering research. Print only: Trump and Musk canceled the research. Call your representative and ask them to defend our universities.

Arts And Sciences

The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2025

Learn how higher ed leaders can turn faculty survey data into strategy, improve shared governance, and increase retention and leadership trust. Too often, results are seen as evaluations rather than inputs into strategy and leadership development. This approach also serves to demonstrate that leadership is listening and responsive.

Faculty

HEPI

AUGUST 3, 2025

For example, some neglected student dorms were renovated at large expense only to be declared still unfit for humans to live in, meaning hotel beds had to be requisitioned. But the level of public expenditure for such a small college seems extraordinary and some of it seems to have been spent unnecessarily.

Academia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

A psychologist and cognitive scientist, her research centers on the human mind and how people divide the world into categories. “In Safa is the perfect choice to guide the College through the fascinating chapter that lies ahead.

Liberal Arts

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Maya Wiley Wiley – civil rights activist, attorney, and professor – is the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. Civil rights leader Maya Wiley will be the keynote speaker at the New College of Florida (NCF) graduating Class of 2023’s alternative commencement ceremony May 18, the Herald Tribune reported.

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?

Institution

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The campus centers seek to prepare the next generation of leaders and thinkers to build equitable and just communities by dismantling the false belief in a hierarchy of human value.

Liberal Arts

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. Today, there are no more tenured faculty in many of the humanities and art disciplines and degrees such in Art History, Languages, Music, Technical Theatre, and many more, have been frozen.

Administration

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 will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M. Houtman, who will retire in July after a five-year term as president.

Arts And Sciences

University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

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.” ” Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills, Aurora University (Aurora, Ill.) News Ranking’s public law school ranks 18 spots to #6.

Arts And Sciences

University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

SUNY Oneonta President Alberto Cardelle invited Hartwick College to join the Regional Innovation Council to collaborate on regional issues and opportunities in healthcare and human services, business development, and employee recruitment and retention to name a few.

Liberal Arts

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.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Then there is a fourth tradition, which represented a distinctively American contribution: A focus on human capital formation, local and regional economic development, entertainment and sports, and community service. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university. I don’t think so.

Arts And Sciences

Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Alongside healthcare, our human services programs are also evolving, with social work weaving in important questions of social justice and seeking collaborative partnerships with our criminal justice program as well as our addiction studies program. That’s fine and probably even a good idea. What are those habits of mind?

Liberal Arts

Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Alongside healthcare, our human services programs are also evolving, with social work weaving in important questions of social justice and seeking collaborative partnerships with our criminal justice program as well as our addiction studies program. That’s fine and probably even a good idea. What are those habits of mind?

Liberal Arts

University Business

AUGUST 5, 2024

Alumni, trusted donors and friends of the college have placed so much confidence in his leadership that the Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college is coming off a record-breaking $77 million year of fundraising. ” More from UB: Do college degrees lead to better jobs? .

Liberal Arts

UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Effective Sharing in Higher Ed Leadership Pitching Ideas That Scale bridget Thu, 12/14/2023 - 06:00 Higher Ed Leadership Inside Higher Ed Weekly Wisdom Collaboration begins with sharing ideas in the spirit of all partners benefitting from what each brings to the table. Our humanity is what connects us, not what we've achieved.

Leadership

University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

John Dozier’s resounding leadership quality is his passion for people and their power to foster strong communities in higher education. He also has prior leadership experience as Kennedy-King College’s former president, according to the school website. John Dozier – Columbia College (S.C)

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts 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.

Deans

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.

Liberal Arts

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The extra 10,000 students could, on their own, populate a midsize traditional university, or several small liberal arts colleges. They want the convenience of asynchronous work coupled with the humanity of synchronous meetings. Today, that population has grown to approximately 43,750 students.

University

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

As a workaround, campus leadership and the War Department devised the Students Army Training Corps. Although the late 1960s and early 1970s saw requirements dismantled at leading liberal arts colleges and research universities, beginning in the late 1970s, the pendulum shifted yet again.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

course or a book discussion group focused on racial stress—will earn what is tentatively titled the microcredential in mental health leadership, which they can list on a résumé or in an email signature. “I think that’s part of changing the culture on campus, that we value this now,” she said.

Arts And Sciences

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

Arts And Sciences

EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, a recent posting for a director of academic technology included these details: In 1992, Carleton created a Learning & Teaching Center to “sponsor conversations, encourage reflection, and offer a venue for classroom innovation that bears on the challenges and opportunities of education at a distinctive liberal arts college.”.

Technology

University Business

JANUARY 18, 2023

Additionally, it’s estimated that only 38% of grads who studied liberal arts, humanities, or foreign languages are employed in their respective fields. Gen-Z ROI: More skills-based learning. Tracking skills and competencies through learner records.

Degree

eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

To what extent is the university’s leadership aware of the paper? So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

Liberal Arts

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 March 2023, Penn State leadership asked all departments to submit positions for elimination.

Arts And Sciences

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 March 2023, Penn State leadership asked all departments to submit positions for elimination.

Arts And Sciences

Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Citizen Leadership o Over the past three elections, we have dramatically increased voter participation among our students earning us the most improved campus in Pennsylvania award from the All In Democracy Challenge. o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance.

Arts And Sciences

ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

However, if seasonal staff or leadership at educational institutions are not interested in new technology, and don’t consider possible applications to the classroom or offices, the gap between where and how our students spend their time learning outside of school and inside the educational building will be deepened.

Technology