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.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” We shouldn’t be surprised that the decline in humanities faculty has led to a decline in humanities majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Grove City, in Pennsylvania, is a Christian liberal arts college. Throckmorton said he found the discrepancy when he and a colleague there were doing a literature review on the correlates of homosexuality—mostly “to convince Christian organizations not to lie to the public about gays.”

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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.

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Today's Learner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Passionate about historic preservation and economic development, Kathryn volunteers for several non-profit organizations while renovating historic homes and commercial buildings throughout Pennsylvania. Duiker is Liberal Arts Professor Emeritus of East Asian studies at The Pennsylvania State University. He earned a Ph.D.

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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. Photo Courtesy of John J. “I

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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?

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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.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2024

“It gets everyone to feel as if they’re part of a community rather than some large organization,” Petillo says. Sacred Heart participates as a chapter of Horizons , a national collective of organizations aimed at advancing educational equity and bridging postsecondary access. “We’re excited.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

He is a board member for Equal Justice Works – a nonprofit organization dedicated to employing talent in public service – and the National Woman’s Law Center. In 2022, he earned a Diversity and Inclusion Award from Minnesota Lawyer and made the Lawyers of Color ‘s “Power List” in 2020 and 2023.

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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

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.

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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. The lack of answers has led her to believe that she was targeted for her activism against hate directed at Asians on and around campus, she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” New College’s liberal arts structure allows students with an interest in theater to take a course, whether that’s in performance, dance, or technical theater. That comes directly from me being a Latinx artist,” said Villada.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

All lower-division undergraduates were to receive a critical understanding of the key organizing ideas and system of thought that underlie the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences, with an emphasis on analysis, method and theory and intellectual and cultural configurations, rather than on chronological development.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

Model clearly organized descriptive and argumentative writing on particular topics. ” In other words, if a program can do a job as well as a person, then humans shouldn’t duplicate those abilities; they must surpass them. Solve math problems and debug programs step by step. Provide first drafts of course syllabi.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From skills assessment rubrics to soft skills microcredentials , this generic conception strips away critical information about how skills are defined, used and rewarded by actual human beings. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S.

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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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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. 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.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. It later became a free-standing organization that has become focused on supporting and accrediting faith-based institutions. They focus on expanding access to all students.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 17, 2024

Source: Google John Cabot University is the top search engine reply page for “liberal arts university in Rome”. Source: Higher Education Marketing Showcase Real Stories : Even as AI-generated content gains popularity, people continue to respond to human stories.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Career outcomes are measurable, and we’ve seen a lot of movement by governments and organizations like Michael’s in driving those data forward. People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations. Higher education has never been terrifically good at measuring its impact or … measuring learning.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

So in other words, students may find academic learning or communicating with administrators more and more boring and outdated if educational organization keep the way it is. For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So I don’t think that it’s two different things.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 14, 2022

Yet, in fact, I doubt if those adjustments are any more difficult than have to be made in every other department of human effort. Objective and ethical news organizations continue to do important journalistic work, but their audience share is sadly in the minority. This is the heart of a liberal-arts education.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. Susquehanna was one of the institutions lifted up by the ATI in their annual report for leading the organization in meeting our goals. He is the world's eye. He is the world's heart.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

They include boosting inclusion through experiential learning opportunities, providing more pathways for students, and embracing digital education. Podcast Highlights Illinois Tech pairs technology education with human-centered education by mandating experiential learning opportunities. Drumm McNaughton I would agree.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Or, to take another example: “Still life paintings pictured the bounty provided by newly established Dutch trade routes and the Republic’s economic success, while omitting the human cost of colonial warfare and slavery.” Let me offer an indication of what campuses might do.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Andrew explains how RSIs’ unique experiences can help: Identify the role higher ed should adopt instead of becoming a for-profit organization. Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. The types of prospective students higher ed needs to target.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Buchanan, who was appointed dean, thought that the traditional liberal arts could be used as a formal structure for learning; he devised a course of study with the great books as the basis for discussion classes. This would make college truly affordable for many of our poorest families.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The implications of the work she does are far-reaching, delivering the best outcomes for citizens across education, health, human services, defense, transport and infrastructure, and central agencies. And that, that human connection is so important. 00:07:45] Catherine: Yeah. and Drumm, I think that’s true. It really is.

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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. If we believe that human promise is distributed equally, it’s what has been our lived experience.

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Echo Delta

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It’s a guy named Brian Zucker, and Brian is the CEO of a boutique firm called Human Capital Research Corporation, HCRC. We are so bound by these traditional models of organizations. Who are your students? How are you aiding them, not just in their first year, but over their four years? What’s the state of your product?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

In his role, he leads an education and consulting enterprise dedicated to facilitating meaningful connections between individuals and organizations. You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 2, 2024

Recognizing the dynamic nature of higher education governance, leaders often find themselves in positions where they might test the limits, which is a natural aspect of human behavior. And I sit actually as a trustee on a small, liberal arts college halfway around the world called High Gaussian College. 00:36:03] Drumm: Really?

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights. Western countries, including both European nations and the United States, have a terrible track record when it comes to the history of human rights.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Within community colleges, some programs of study are loosely defined, especially in the humanities, or were never designed to lead to transfer, as in the case of applied associate degrees. And improvement is needed.

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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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