Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As such, credits from Massasoit’s Black Studies courses count toward liberal arts and humanities elective requirements aligned with most of the school’s degrees and will factor into transfer credit to four-year colleges, she says.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

A project at Montclair State University (MSU), a public research university in New Jersey, focuses on reviving the Native American Munsee language, while faculty and students at Haverford College, a private liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, are working in Oaxaca, Mexico, to safeguard Zapotec languages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Shauntae Brown White, professor of mass communication and coordinator of women’s and gender studies as well as Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Social Science and Humanities, was part of the proposal process and the minor’s development.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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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. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The four-year degree isn’t working for a lot of people,” Lori Carrell, the chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, told her colleagues around the table, noting higher education’s high cost and low degree attainment, which has “squandered human potential at times.” ” Pasquerella said.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” The college said its plan also “calls for Allegheny to have a student-to-faculty ratio that is aligned with other national liberal arts colleges. Magazine treatment: Trending: Trending text: Why Did Allegheny Cut Chinese? Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Carol Landau, a clinical professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University and the author of Mood Prep 101: A Parent’s Guide to Preventing Depression and Anxiety in College-Bound Teens ( Oxford University Press , 2020), said she sees U SAD? Before the pandemic, you’d never do that.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

“Humanities majors want jobs, too.” “The cultural ideology part doesn’t necessarily align with the data; a liberal arts education often shows economic return at the four-year level, for example,” he said. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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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. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

“These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said. Early this month, Becker and other Bard leaders met to discuss how to get around this potential problem. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gillis: I’m an assistant professor in sociology at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. Instructors are human beings, and when there’s a face in front of us in the classroom, it’s really hard to not cater to what those people are most wanting. They expect in-person education.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations. Liberal arts majors have some sort of ROI, and while they might not have it immediately in terms of how much they’re making, we can see an exponential increase in their salary after the first few years. Oftentimes you think STEM means tech.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

“I’m not hearing this morning about a migration away from the liberal arts, or the death of the liberal arts,” Daniel Lugo, president of Queens University of Charlotte and the session’s moderator, said to the three female executives on the stage with him. “I’m still a big believer.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Buser’s study , published in Sex Roles , involved some 1,190 undergraduates (696 men and 494 women) enrolled in introductory-level economics courses taught by seven different faculty members—three men and four women—at five institutions: one state university, one large regional university and three private liberal arts colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Steve Estes, director of academic advising at Northern Illinois University’s College of Liberal Arts, which uses Navigate, praises the platform’s appointment campaign feature for proactive outreach and advising. At the same time, SNHU is investing in technology to bolster advising supports. One example?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Multiple speakers also pointed to the contrast between Midland, a small, private liberal arts college with an enrollment of about 1,000 students during Sasse’s presidency, and the University of Florida, a research institution with Division I athletics and 60,000 students. Sasse’s Senate office did not provide a response.).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: What do you make then of the shrinking numbers of liberal arts students and the huge increase in those pursuing career tracks in fields such as engineering and business? In spite of the narrative about humanities and social sciences, many of those folks get good jobs and do things that they really like doing moving forward.

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