University Business

MARCH 18, 2025

Four-year colleges and universities are slowly waking up to a new era in academic programming and credentialing that emphasizes short-term upskilling. “Historically, many four-year schools have been somewhat detached from the job market, focusing more on traditional liberal arts education,” Dinski says.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. I applied to non-tenure-line teaching positions, linguistics-adjacent orgs and a bunch of university admin jobs. Flexibility and rigor aren’t diametrically opposed. Instead, I moved to D.C. with no job and no plan.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Declines during the pandemic have been steepest among community college students and African American and Latinx males, Lynn Pasquerella , president of the American Association of Colleges and Universities, points out. First-year college success seminars. Some of the proven strategies include: Undergraduate research opportunities.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

He proceeded to examine a proposal that came out of MIT to reimagine the “midtier” universities that serve the bulk of undergraduates but that occupy a kind of nether land, as “‘lesser’ versions of research universities,” without their resources or reputation. preparation for the job market.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Indicators. million Andrew W.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

But this isn’t an art class; the students will be illustrating their moods as part of a new one-credit course at the University of Maryland, College Park, that Morgan developed to teach students basic emotional regulation skills. Cheekily titled U SAD? is open to all undergraduates.).

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There’s no question about it: agile colleges and universities wishing to clarify their value, produce marketable graduates and level the economic playing field for their students must immediately make internships much more widely available than they already are.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Today, remnants of middlebrow culture live on, evident in PBS’s American Masters series or in Oxford University Press’s Very Short Introductions book series and even the game show Jeopardy! In previous posts, I have mentioned Hunter College’s HUM 20010: Exploration in the Arts as a scalable model.

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University Business

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Entrepreneurial-minded college and university leaders are overhauling deeply ingrained systems and frameworks to thrive in higher education’s next chapter. The post Here are 4 things you can learn from this higher ed disruptor appeared first on University Business. The latest shining example is Marcy Lab School.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

In 1895, Edward Bemis was forced to resign from the faculty of the University of Chicago for speaking against monopolies and in support of the Pullman strike. · For a fascinating history of the AAUP, I commend University Reform: The Founding of the American Association of University Professors by Hans-Joerg Tiede.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“I’ve had people tell me you could order hamburgers and the order would come in and it was chicken breast,” says Robert Nelson, chief executive officer at NACUFS, the National Association of College & University Food Services. Now the number sits at about 800, with three-quarters or more being colleges and universities.

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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. How are others using those spaces?

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

A theater course at a small liberal arts college. Presenting AI-generated work as your own will have consequences according to university policies. A graduate level library sciences course at a public university 2. Further, overreliance on AI can hinder independent thinking and creativity.

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Echo Delta

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As a first question, I would love to get your perspective on how you have seen the enrollment function evolve in colleges and universities from when you started to more recent days. I think a positive change has been the diversification of the populations that colleges and universities are seeking to enroll. Laurie Koehler: Yes, yes.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

campuses, partnerships with universities in nearby countries or expanded access to online classes. Other institutions, including Arizona State University , have also opened their doors to Afghans in need of refuge and educational opportunities. The Taliban's Dec. that can guarantee financial and academic support.

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