Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. For students who started at a community college in 2014, including those who transferred and those who did not, 33% obtained a credential. Six-year completion rates have also increased.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014. The MCSS and MICU will host a Liberal Arts Transfer Summit in July 2023 to publicize and celebrate the project’s achievements.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Liberal Arts Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education , edited by J. Roth, Michael: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. Zakaria, Fareed: In Defense of a Liberal Education. Thomas Wren, Ronald E.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

Within each category, it calculates the sum of weighted, normalized values across 17 indicators of academic quality to determine each school’s overall score and, ultimately, ranking: National Universities National Liberal Arts Colleges Regional Universities (North, South, Midwest, and West) Regional Colleges (North, South, Midwest, and West) U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. Karen Gross served as the president of the Bennington-based Southern Vermont College from 2006 to 2014. “I think we’ve turned the corner,” Smolla said. “I’m very optimistic.” Joseph and Southern Vermont College.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It is absolutely true that if you have a STEM-focused community college and a broad liberal arts university, then you want different criteria for board members of those two types of institutions,” Wyner said.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

” Many faculty members believed that the college had undermined its historical embrace of shared governance in recent years, citing the controversial 2014 dismissal of the dean of faculty and the closed nature of the 2015 presidential search, among other things.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. A new dean, Joseph Aistrup, was appointed.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

There was a great 2014 piece on this in The New Yorker – “ Why Walking Helps Us Think ” by Ferris Jabr. Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

At the state level, the University of Texas system launched a database linking degrees to workforce outcomes in 2014; the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education began collecting similar data in its workforce outcomes database in fall 2021.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

He has been named the “Rising Star” twice in his career, first in 2014 by the American College Personnel Association and second in 2015 by the National Association of Colleges & Employers (NACE). Our next guest is Jeff Schauer, author of the recently released book Inside The Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Buser’s study , published in Sex Roles , involved some 1,190 undergraduates (696 men and 494 women) enrolled in introductory-level economics courses taught by seven different faculty members—three men and four women—at five institutions: one state university, one large regional university and three private liberal arts colleges.

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University Business

MARCH 1, 2024

In the business of running an entire liberal arts college in South Carolina, the most cherished metric to study Furman’s success is student satisfaction. Add two decades of academic leadership at Baylor University and nearly ten years at the helm of Furman University and the president is a well-oiled machine.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. As their Charter states, the purpose of the Academy is: … to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people. [9]

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

When I first heard about it, I assumed they were going to merge it into the University of Arkansas Grantham, the public institution Arkansas created when it purchased Grantham University last year, which itself emerged out of eVersity, the online-only university Arkansas created in 2014. That was in the interest of growth. Can we deliver?

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

By 2014 when his firm merged with the global law firm Cooley LLP, the higher education practice he headed was the largest and one of the highest regarded in the country. 00:31:24] He founded the law firm Dow Loans in 1978, which merged into Cooley in 2014 and was a partner there for seven years before joining Titan about three years ago.

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