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Emerging leaders: 4 colleges hire their first Black or female—or both—president

University Business

and NYU have all recently elected a Black or female president—or both—for the first time in their schools’ histories. She understands the power of a liberal arts education to create the visionary leaders the world sorely needs. She is the first Black female president in the school’s 186-year history.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal.

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What Should We Do About Undergrads Who Want to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate?

Inside Higher Ed

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The institution has a storied history. history survey course to be delivered in the summer.

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

Inside Higher Ed

He said the college’s innovative restructuring plan and progressive history drew him to the job. programs took a nosedive after the 2008 recession, and while the numbers have gone up and down since then, law school enrollments today aren’t nearly what they were. Interest in J.D. Vermont Law School is no different.

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Back to Campus Visit (But Not Like Before) [Webinar]

Echo Delta

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?

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Tough Times Ahead for Higher Education Enrollment: Changing Higher Ed Podcast with Host Drumm McNaughton and Guests Bob Massa and Bill Conley

The Change Leader, Inc.

Bill Conley William Conley began his career in education as an AP History teacher and coach at Delbarton School, transitioning into higher education enrollment management in 1980. And those colleges, especially private, small liberal arts colleges, are highly clustered in the Midwest and the Northeast.

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New Book Traces Shirley Chisholm’s Radical Embrace of Black Feminism

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As we celebrate Black History Month, a close examination of Shirley Chisholm’s rise in progressive politics is not only important, but it is necessary. Jesse Louis Jackson’s historic presidential runs in 1984 and 1988 and the election of a virtually unknown political figure — Barack Obama — in 2008. Chisholm paved the way for the Rev.