Higher Ed Dive

MAY 2, 2024

The liberal arts institution is cutting $7 million from its budget and refocusing around eight in-demand majors.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 10, 2023

Ron DeSantis has marred their liberal arts experience. Hampshire College has promised matching tuition for these students, who say Gov.

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberal arts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.

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Higher Ed Dive

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The private Alabama liberal arts institution is requesting public funding to give it “breathing room to operate.”

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Dr. John Smetanka The board’s decision reflects the liberal arts college’s long-standing challenges related to declining enrollment, a shrinking pool of college-age students, rising costs, and significant debt, according to Board Chair Terri Bradford Eason. “Our

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

“It takes courage to be an institution of education, and it takes courage to develop it in other people,” she says. the small private college has traditionally championed the classical values of a liberal arts education. Tucked away in the small rural town of Middlebury, Vt., appeared first on University Business.

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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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Higher Ed Data Stories

DECEMBER 23, 2022

There are a couple of problems with using that paper to prop up this argument, however: First, the study included about 200 liberal arts colleges, and nowhere does it suggest that the conclusions can be generalized, or even that the results are reflective of reality every where else. So we don't know what the admit pools look like.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Notably, each of those courses takes a week out of the semester – often in March – to allow the private women's liberal arts college’s students to travel to destinations associated with their respective course, at no additional cost. “We American educational institutions, and bring some improvement.'

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 30, 2023

Middle States Commission on Higher Education said it is yanking accreditation partly because the liberal arts institution is in “imminent danger of closing.”

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The value of a college degree from a small liberal arts 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2024

University of Mount Saint Vincent The institution — founded in 1847 by the Sisters of Charity and originally known as the Academy of Mount Saint Vincent — was the first established higher education organization for young women in New York, according to the release. 1, it became the University of Mount Saint Vincent.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A Clash Over Core Curriculum at New College of Florida Josh Moody Tue, 10/29/2024 - 03:00 AM Faculty say administrators at the public liberal arts institution are changing core course offerings in a way that is ideologically driven and harmful to students. Byline(s) Josh Moody

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2024

Nearly half of the state's two-year liberal-arts institutions are being shuttered. By Eric Kelderman Mike De Sisti, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, USA TODAY NETWORK Thomas M. Nelson, county executive in Outagamie County, Wis. It wasn't supposed to be this way.

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Helix Education

APRIL 21, 2024

For example, what difference does a population of 1,500 students at one institution make in the grand scheme of higher ed? Those students can always go to a larger institution. The truth is, many of these small institutions “punch above their weight” and are making an outsized contribution to the higher education profession.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 26, 2024

Eastern Nazarene College, a private, nonprofit Christian liberal arts institution in Massachusetts, said late Tuesday that it would close and transition to “a new educational enterprise” to carry on its legacy.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2024

University of Redlands Announces Another Merger jessica.blake@… Wed, 01/17/2024 - 03:00 AM The planned merger with Woodbury University, a small, private liberal arts institution in California, follows a wave of college mergers and closures in 2023. Byline(s) Jessica Blake

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Higher Ed Data Stories

JUNE 2, 2024

The first (using the tabs across the top) shows degrees by the institutions where they're awarded. You'll see little change: Most degrees are still awarded by public institutions, doctoral institutions, in larger cities. The view will update to show you wish institutions produce the most degrees in that area.

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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?

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When conservative leaders took over Florida’s only public liberal arts institution, Hampshire College officials knew they had to help. Now they’re welcoming the first cohort of New College defectors. AMHERST, Mass.,

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 5, 2024

The small liberal arts institution in Wisconsin announced three weeks ago it was in such a dire financial state that it would be forced to shutter if it could not raise $12 million by April 3.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

He explained his departure in an open letter, claiming that Dr. Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. West resigned Apr. 5, less than a year into his five-year term.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

By Sonel Cutler Birmingham-Southern College, a private liberal-arts institution plagued by more than a decade of financial problems, will cease operations at the end of May, it announced Tuesday.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 19, 2024

Davidson College, a private, liberal arts institution in North Carolina, has secured an $85 million donation to expand its library with a focus on bringing it into the digital age.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 6, 2023

Faculty members and other supporters of the liberal arts gathered at Ursinus College last week to debate what liberal education is and how best to attract students to it. What is liberal education? How can colleges support it? And how can they attract more students to pursue it?

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Inside Higher Ed

MAY 30, 2024

Northeastern Expands With Marymount Manhattan Merger Josh Moody Thu, 05/30/2024 - 03:00 AM The Boston-based institution will absorb the small, liberal-arts college, adding a 14th campus to its global system and establishing its first site in New York City. Byline(s) Josh Moody

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2023

This new designation rightly represents the type of institution that we are today. SUNY Old Westbury is a campus committed to powerful, liberal arts education and dedicated to preparing its students for career and life success while empowering them to be change-makers for social and environmental justice.”

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

By Karin Fischer Illustration by The Chronicle; Getty Images; Jens Kalaene, picture-alliance, dpa, AP They say the the liberal-arts institution, which has a reputation for standing up to authoritarian governments, has done little to support them.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

The Institute for Race and Social Transformation (iRaST) will undertake an in-depth examination of historical and contemporary social issues that impact the local community. The post Rhodes College to Establish Institute for Race and Social Transformation appeared first on INSIGHT Into Diversity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

higher ed institution. DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. The school is set to launch this coming fall. “We

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. ” The post What can private institutions do about the middle-class squeeze? appeared first on University Business.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. percent at nonprofit institutions and 2.2 percent at for-profit institutions.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Keystone College—a small, liberal arts college in Northeastern Pennsylvania—had its accreditation withdrawn this week by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Keystone College The school, which has about 1,100 students, pledged to appeal the decision.

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University Business

OCTOBER 17, 2024

However, several institutions this year have dodged the tolling bell—offering college leaders clues as to how they, too, can avoid an existential crisis. Located just 60 miles from Talladega, the private liberal arts school shuttered its doors in May. Can institutions pause the plummet?

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