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Vassar connects two-year colleges and liberal arts colleges

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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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Money Magazine rewards 34 colleges with 5-star ranking, prioritizing ROI and graduation rates

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Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. 4% $86,500 $13,300 93% Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (N.Y.) College Acceptance rate Est. full price 2023-24 Est. rice with avg.

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100 years of social intelligence

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Thorndike of Columbia University Teachers College, identified it as one of three types of intelligence in his 1920 Harpers Magazine article, Intelligence and Its Uses. Last month, I introduced social intelligence to a board of trustees of a small liberal arts college, focusing on its applications to advancement.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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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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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

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William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. They seek rigorous academics and associate that with strong STEM programs in a liberal arts context as the top characteristics of a great university. And they need to prepare themselves for future work, in relevant ways.

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Biotech boot camp at Villanova exposes students to career paths

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Villanova has hosted other boot camps for hard-to-break-into careers, like consulting, or for students looking to translate their major skills into a field, like liberal arts or science students interested in financial services, Grubb says. Is this diversity newsletter?: Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Minnesota Catholic colleges cut languages, other humanities

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He also suggested the liberal arts can be “a more fluid line of inquiry that’s across your general education requirement, that’s bringing in multiple ways of thinking across lots of disciplines—even though you might not have the major in the program. John’s University Is this diversity newsletter?: