Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

Belmont University President Greg Jones may have crafted the most authentic initiative for the Tennessee-based liberal arts college after striking a unique partnership with global superstar legend Dolly Parton. However, the timeless power of teaching a liberal arts education isnt lost on Jones either. Listen here.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 17, 2022

Now, I see this through a new lens as my husband, Richard, and I have made our first big philanthropic investment in higher education: supporting one of our nation’s small liberal arts colleges. Today’s world is made better with the kind of education students get at a small liberal arts college.

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A. in Sociology of Education with a policy concentration; Teachers College Columbia University; and Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The board of Marymount University, in Virginia, voted unanimously to eliminate 10 programs, mostly in the liberal arts, on Friday. The vote eliminated majors in art, economics, English, history, mathematics, philosophy, secondary education, sociology, and theology and religious studies, and an M.A. Hide by line?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Marymount University, in Virginia, is planning to cut many of its liberal arts programs, citing low enrollments, ARLnow reported. “These majors are a vital part of a well-rounded education, providing students with a deep understanding of culture, history, and the human experience.

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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. Anthony Foxx (1993): U.S.

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Edu Alliance Journal

APRIL 14, 2025

April 14, 2025, by Dean Hoke : This profile of Tuskegee University is the ninth in a series presenting small colleges throughout the United States. Washington, Tuskegee University is a private historically black university (HBCU) located in Tuskegee, Alabama about 40 miles east of Montgomery.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. The provost of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University has cited overall enrollment decreases and specifically low enrollments in these courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Morgan State University has received $596,383 for a human behavior study regarding responses to environmental indications of fire, with the findings expected to help in improving fire safety systems and building design. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, is co-principal investigator. Gilliam, Jr.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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Campus Technology

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The University of Minnesota (UMN)'s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has announced a partnership with Helios Consulting to offer graduates a chance to gain human resource technology skills through paid employment and training in its Rise Program, an apprenticeship designed to prepare students for a career in the Workday ecosystem.

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ACRLog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Benjamin Dueck is a General Librarian in the Arts & Humanities Division at The University of Manitoba Libraries. Earlier this month, I began working as a full-time Humanities Liaison Librarian at the University of Manitoba. Quantification & the neoliberal university. Figure 1: Informational holism.

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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 9, 2024

As colleges and universities across the country face declining enrollments caused by rising tuition costs, changing job market demands, and demographic shifts, institutions are getting creative with solutions. The number of humanities degrees has declined by 14% in the past decade, according to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

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University Business

JULY 1, 2024

West Virginia University, the state’s flagship institution, performs the song at many of its events. Thus, the list of universities and colleges eliminating some or all their language education over the last decade includes the likes of Missouri Western State University, SUNY Potsdam and Eastern Carolina University.

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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? New tools.

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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. Net price after aid is $26,834 Curricula Wabash offers a diverse array of academic programs across three divisions: Natural Sciences, Humanities and Arts, and Social Sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

As a scholar engaged in legal research, the law library of New York University School of Law, ranked in the top ten of law schools, affords one bountiful offerings of legal research tools such as HeinOnline, Lexis Plus, VitalLaw, Law Journal Library and Proquest that are not available at primarily undergraduate institutions such as my own.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

in New York University’s joint Ph.D. 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 article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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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 We are living in an era of remarkable change in which the relevance of higher education in general, and the promise of the liberal arts in particular, could not be clearer. “We Zaki holds a B.A.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2025

The state Board of Governors announced a new pilot program that would examine the economic return of women- and gender-based studies and four other academic programs across its public universities, the Florida Phoenix reports. One private liberal arts college overhauled by Florida Gov. Brian Harrison. Taylor Collins.

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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. Enrollment Trends As of Fall 2024, Whitman enrollment is 1,561 students.

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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. Ohio State University. " Sept. 2022), 16-26.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Thirty-two tenured faculty members are slated for layoffs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM). Mone The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents approved budget cuts that include the recommended layoffs as part of an effort to mitigate its declining enrollment and financial challenges. Dr. Mark A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) has announced partnerships with four new Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT) Campus Centers. TRHT Campus Centers comprise community colleges, liberal arts colleges, HBCUs, minority-serving institutions, faith-based institutions, and large research universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

colleges and universities working on social justice-related research or curricular projects. Dr. Phillip Brian Harper In Spring 2022, the foundation had invited proposals from institutions – accredited, non-profit, four-year liberal arts degree-granting U.S. Mellon Foundation pledged more than $12 million to 26 U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

McCall is currently provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Xavier University of Louisiana. She has also served as associate dean for Tulane University's School of Liberal Arts; dean of arts, humanities and social sciences at the University of Denver; and dean of Harpur College of Arts and Sciences.

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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. Alumni giving percentages and engagement consistently rank in the top five among all colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

” These are the less selective colleges and universities that serve those students with less than stellar College Board scores and nonstratospheric transcripts. The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine.

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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. University of Chicago. states and 76 countries.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. Amid all these changes, some faculty members wonder whether Manhattanville can continue to offer a liberal arts–grounded education that is heavy on faculty-student interaction. Focus on the Future.

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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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