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Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 156 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Jeff Scheuer

The Change Leader, Inc.

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

University Business

Bergman was the first woman to lead the private liberal arts college when she stepped in in 2014. She was no stranger to Gustavus; she served on the Board of Trustees from 2007 to 2014 following the enrollment of her eldest son in 2003. Prior to her 18 years of executive leadership, Bergman had no career in academia.

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Using innovative TNE models grow enrolments in US colleges and universities

The PIE News

million in 2007 to 3.7m In particular liberal arts colleges and second-tier US state universities will be under particular pressure. Birth rates dropped from 4.3 in 2021 so this demographic shift will herald a marked decrease in the college age students.

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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Burgos arrived at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, where he earned tenure as an associate professor in 2007 and rose to full professor in 2012.

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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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Rooted and Open

Susquehanna President's Blog

Our founder, Benjamin Kurtz, sought a community that would sponsor such an endeavor, and Selinsgrove offered to help if he would also provide a traditional liberal-arts education to their sons and daughter who were not called to the ministry. These are the values of the Abrahamic religions, and they are the values of the liberal arts.

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Building maintenance issues admissions leaders should know about (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

During my seven years leading facilities operations at Butler University—a private liberal arts and professional institution in Indianapolis—I had the honor of working closely with the late Tom Weede.