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Two big ways institutions must be innovative with upskilling culture

University Business

“Historically, many four-year schools have been somewhat detached from the job market, focusing more on traditional liberal arts education,” Dinski says. He also champions the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act, which would expand Pell Grants on short-term postsecondary programs. “However, this needs to change.

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Innovating at Scale

Inside Higher Ed

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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The Faculty Resource Network of New York University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a law professor emanating from a primarily liberal arts institution, I deemed it invaluable that the author’s note in my law review articles could state that research was conducted, in part, as an FRN Scholar-in-Residence at NYU, courtesy of the Faculty Resource Network.

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Asian universities compete as global educators

The PIE News

Definitely a very attractive point for Asian destinations Josephine Phinith, ICEF Rob Turner, international development and marketing manager at International College of Liberal arts (ICLA), stressed that sharing co-curricular activities is mutually beneficial. Mixing domestic and international students.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

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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Gen Ed: Its Past, Present and Possible Future

Inside Higher Ed

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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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

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.