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The value of a college degree from a small liberalarts school is often tied to a more intimate, meaningful higher education experience.Global education is garnering increasing interest, making study abroad an essential component for institutions striving to attract a shrinking pool of prospective students.
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Their role includes collection development, teaching information literacy, and providing reference services for faculty, students, and staff. Informational holism. In order to support the information needs in my subject areas, I take an integral approach to my reference work and in-class instruction. Figure 3: Network thinking.
Prospective students, especially younger ones, often have shorter attention spans, so aim to keep the tour concise but informative. Use their first names, reference the programs they have shown interest in, and offer tailored information about how your school can meet their needs. Also, make the tour shorter.
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Despite the collaborative efforts of the entire Northland family, we no longer have the resources needed to navigate the economic and demographic storms endangering small, liberalarts institutions today, said Ted Bristol, chair of the college’s board of trustees. Founded: 1938 Oak Point University (Ill.)
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Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of LiberalArts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. I had to get used to that.
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Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. The rate was a bit higher among liberalarts colleges: an increase of 0.33 “Overall, the lack of progress on faculty diversity in the U.S. Lewis, assistant professor of communication at Cornell; and Elan C.
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