Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Geisler last summer.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

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. ” “These schools are in danger of demographic decline, regional decline and various factors beyond their control, really,” Henderson said.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

The private nursing school will officially welcome its fifth president on May 6, according to school communications. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The work was done in collaboration with the provost.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. The president-designate was NYU’s Vice Chancellor and Senior Vice Provost for Global Programs and University Life for the past decade and is a lifetime member of the school’s senior leadership team.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

Spurred on by this interest in universities’ inner workings, Allen went on to eventually lead in an administrative capacity as senior vice president and provost at Widener University before returning to Meredith as its leader in July 2011. This return etched Allen all the more into the history of Meredith.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Other notable mentions: Dr. Stuart Rayfield, Columbus State University Dr. Cheryl McConnell, Saint Joseph’s University, the school’s first female president. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The school wants to fire Dr. Joeckel for teaching these materials and educating students about the realities of racism in America.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Students obtain essential networking and community-building skills while developing a sense of leadership that is not informed by “heteronormative and cisnormative practices,” says John Weinstein, PhD, the college’s provost and vice president. The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass.,

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting In all cases, we observed the same overall trends.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The jury did not agree with Stern’s similar claims against two former provosts, however. In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. ” said Rasmussen. “They

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. While the rankings can be a valuable tool, they’re also quite controversial in that they tend to favor prestigious schools where the student populations largely come from white, affluent families. The problem?

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

More from UB: Middle East conflict continues to stir backlash, compromise safety across college campuses Hires Bonnie Cordon – Southern Virginia University The Southern Virginia University Board of Trustees unanimously approved hiring Bonnie Cordon as the school’s 10th president. Alexander Whitaker – King University (Tenn.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

The Charleston, South Carolina, native had mostly Black teachers from kindergarten to high school, and they served as possibility models for her. “I Dr. Antonio Ellis, Senior Professorial Lecturer at American University and a high school classmate of Kinloch, said she is exceptionally well-suited to lead JCSU in this new era.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Office of the Provost and the Office of Global Engagement at the University of Mississippi provided funding for the program. The Florence experience The program, designed to give advisors a firsthand understanding of the study abroad experience, was packed with educational and cultural activities.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

” Leffingwell is slated to teach at New York City’s New School in the spring—an institution comprised of the Parsons School of Design, a liberal arts college, a performing arts college, the Mannes conservatory and several graduate schools. The institution has a storied history.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

School leaders are appointed to lead an institution for their quantifiably successful work, like Ron Patterson at Chadron State College. increase and a 47% increase in new transfer students, according to the school website. She was the school’s first Black female president at the state’s first public HBCU.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

And this came in the summer of 2021, so we had gone through a very challenging year where a lot of faculty had been forced to do things that they never would have imagined doing if it hadn’t been for the pandemic,” said Sean Condon, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Merrimack College.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This was the beginning of plans—announced by Clark president David Fithian—to establish the Becker School of Design & Technology (BSDT) at Clark, keeping intact Becker’s nationally ranked interactive media design and gaming programs. Sebastián Royo is provost of Clark University. Is this diversity newsletter?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Mike Runiewicz, assistant vice provost and director of student financial services at Washington University in St. Go old-school Reinforcing old-school spending and borrowing habits can teach students how to better manage their finances and set them up for future success. What Is Financial Wellness?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In a blog post at the time, I defended my English education as the key to being able to thrive and rapidly advance inside a market research firm, rising from the typing pool to the position of analyst and project director within a couple of years, and despite not having taken a math class since high school. Either way, I’m easy to find.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Among the slate of presidents to announce their plans to retire in the next year, all three double as school alumni. He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. By way of contrast, consider the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 pledge to contribute $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to renovate decrepit schools.

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University Business

APRIL 7, 2023

The past week saw a top 10 research university gain its first female president and a pair of small private schools electing new leadership. She was the first woman president at Minnesota, and the same is true at Pitt where she will be serving as the 236-year-old school’s 19th chancellor. One major appointment Joan T.A.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Additionally, he served eight years as chairman on the board of directors for a free after-school program for high school students interested in architecture, engineering and construction.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As the provost of the private liberal arts school for nine years until 2022, Belmont’s enrollment grew by more than 2,000 student,s and he helped oversee the merger of two other postsecondary institutions. For one, he describes both universities as a happy marriage of liberal arts and a professional education.

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University Business

JULY 20, 2023

Three prominent schools have updated their admissions policy to no longer consider a student’s legacy status after considering the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action. How ending legacy #admissions 10 years ago changed @JohnsHopkins. to 30.8%.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

News sends a questionnaire to the President, Provost, and Chief Enrollment Officer of each college with a list of all the institutions in their cohort. At Susquehanna, we receive a list of 222 “national liberal arts colleges.” This creates comparisons between remarkably heterogeneous schools. Each year, U.S. News top 50.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

Cutting programs Some schools have chosen to cut programs as a way to shore up finances. The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Cutting programs Some schools have chosen to cut programs as a way to shore up finances. The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

In McDonnell’s previous roles at UMF in the past 13 years, he’s served as a faculty member, dean and provost. In touch with its faith-based mission, Christian expanded the school’s faith-based spaces and on-campus dormitories. University leaders consider it a turnaround and are riding with McDonnell for the future.

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University Business

JULY 23, 2024

Since becoming the permanent president last year, the former dean, professor and provost of the Illinois-based liberal arts school has been talking about some of the pain points that everyone involved in higher education—from policymakers to students—is currently concerned with: affordability, student well-being and career preparation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4 percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

“ Senior leadership’s role is essential: as Ehrmann explains in his important book Pursuing Quality, Access and Affordability: A Field Guide to Improving Higher Education , presidents or provosts must define a vision, articulate the institution’s needs and push for cross-silo collaboration.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

They stressed how enriched their liberal arts education has become due to their “dynamic array of socioeconomic, religious, intellectual, geographic, and racial diversity” since different voices are at once challenging and ultimately elevating student perspectives. .

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