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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. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 ” Accounting for time to tenure, the researchers estimate that between 2013 and 2020, 45,309 Ph.D.s Meanwhile, the U.S. percentage points per year. 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. Lewis Phenomenon: Christianity and the Public Sphere (2013) and Golden Notes , a novel (2016). “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

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In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. Stern’s tenure was granted by appeal, in 2010. Later that year, Stern was elected chair of the economics department.

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Struggling law school seeks to reinvent itself

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According to data from the nonprofit Law School Transparency , VLS welcomed a matriculating class of 212 first-year law students in 2010, but by 2013 that number had fallen to 129. It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. Vermont Law School is no different. “I’m very optimistic.”

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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.” I mean, I often wish for that world, but I’m not naïve enough to think it could’ve been realized.

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