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Vassar connects two-year colleges and liberal arts colleges

Inside Higher Ed

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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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. I actually think we need a model of shared governance that’s more robust than what we had in the years before pandemic.” For many years its leaders referred to it as a “liberal arts university.”

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Biotech boot camp at Villanova exposes students to career paths

Inside Higher Ed

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. Click here to submit. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

Inside Higher Ed

“I put together a model to grow enrollment quickly, and we did. “That was a good model. Data available on the website show that unlike most liberal arts colleges, Adrian’s enrollment has boomed, increasing from under 1,000 students in 2005 to roughly 1,900 today. He just ran out of inexpensive sports.

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Projecting ahead at these rates of change, the percentage of underrepresented tenure-line faculty at liberal arts colleges in 2060 would be 19 percentage points behind the general population, compared to a gap of 22 percentage points across institutions studied.

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How Universities Handle Device Procurement Amid Supply Chain Woes

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Then, seven years ago, the university launched the ATLAS Care program, which refreshes departmental devices using a bulk pricing model… But keeping the older equipment in use, Wood says, often equated to increased support time and costs.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. I use this model when I advise students.”