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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

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’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

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With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

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percentage points each year on average between 2013 and 2020. At this rate, the paper says, “higher education will never achieve demographic parity among tenure-track faculty. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Meanwhile, the U.S. percentage points per year.

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

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15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

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Rodney Smolla, a veteran lawyer and higher education leader, took over as the Vermont Law and Graduate School’s president in July, just weeks after the changes were announced. ” Enrollment drops are a concern across higher education, but they have hit law schools particularly hard. Interest in J.D.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

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The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” He said he looks “forward to working with Auburn University, charting a new and positive path toward achieving our educational mission. Stern’s tenure was granted by appeal, in 2010. A new dean, Joseph Aistrup, was appointed.

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The English Degree Is Great Job Preparation

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Blog: Just Visiting I see we are in another cycle of concern for the academic humanities, this time triggered by a long article in the New Yorker by Nathan Heller titled “The End of the English Major.” Working in higher ed institutions as a non-tenureable instructor of various stripes was a bit of a drag on the old income.

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