University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

We believe that this year, we can combine the best of the liberal arts experience with high-quality technical training to ensure our students have the breadth and depth to be competitive with—or surpass—their peers who attend four-year colleges or universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A special entity offering select undergraduates signature classes, early course registration and exclusive access to internships, research opportunities, social and cultural events, and small, discussion-based seminars. A stress not just on intimate seminars but on active and project-based learning and problem solving.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

First-year college success seminars. On other hand, changing demographics also mean colleges cannot abandon the liberal arts in favor of career preparation. Some of the proven strategies include: Undergraduate research opportunities. Internships and study abroad programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“This is sort of what every department, and I would say every college of liberal arts and humanities and social sciences—this is what we talk about in our administrative meetings,” said Jonathan Greenberg, English department chair at Montclair State University.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

The eight-hour seminar is offered in both virtual and in-person formats through UMD’s health center. “I was talking to somebody who is actually on a board of a small liberal arts college, and now when parents ask about a college, they ask about psychological services. Before the pandemic, you’d never do that.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Why not take inspiration from pre-existing models in which faculty guide student experience, such as first-year seminar programs, or living and learning communities, and aid students in processing, reflecting on and making the most of their internship experiences?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

“These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said. But Afghan women may even be unable to access online classes if the government is monitoring their internet use.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Spaces aren’t (in most cases) designed by the educators teaching in them, but looking at the formal learning setting (lab, lecture theatre, seminar room, etc) through a critical lens can help educators begin to think about what they might want to achieve in that space. Sometimes in deep conversation and some shy and yet eager to belong.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

A theater course at a small liberal arts college. In addition to one time seminars, synchronous activities might also include the development of disciplinary communities of practice that discuss AI throughout the term or academic year.

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Echo Delta

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

How does it compare with other schools like you, not just your competitors in the admissions realm, because your competitor might be big state U because they’re located in the same city you are, but you’re a tiny liberal arts college. Who are your students? What’s the state of your product?

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Go to most campuses and a conventional, unimaginative, standardized approach to education is the norm: A college education consists of 60 or 120 credit hours, a 15 week-long semester, distribution requirements, a department-based major, and 3 or 5 credit hour lecture, seminar, and laboratory courses. Sure, there are exceptions.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

That institution’s first- and second-year seminars ensure that all the campus’s undergraduates acquire fluency in masterworks of art, literature, music, political and moral philosophy, and theology and the frontiers of the biological, brain and natural sciences. That proved to be the model that most institutions followed.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In previous posts, I have mentioned Hunter College’s HUM 20010: Exploration in the Arts as a scalable model. This course combines visits to museums and performance venues with signature seminars and opportunities for undergraduates to interact with artists, playwrights, musicians and performers. I urge you to follow that example.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Flush from his success on the front, he persuaded the faculty at Columbia University to allow him to teach General Honors, a two-year seminar devoted to the Great Books. Adler suggested replicating the two-year Honors Seminar of his own Columbia student experience. and the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

In a sustainability projects elective course at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire, “all the students want to know what they can do,” says Joshua Cline, an adjunct professor who teaches the course, along with a seminar for juniors and a senior capstone. “A teeny liberal arts college can’t make that investment.”

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