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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

Aaron is a higher education professional with more than 25 years of experience in enrollment management. He has written previously for RNL about best financial practices for universities and has also written for The Chronicle of Higher Education among other publications. percent between 2015 and 2019.”

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

Inside Higher Ed

’” 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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Report: Fall Transfer Enrollment Remains in Decline in 2022

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Researchers also found that of the students who transferred to a four-year school from a community college, liberal arts majors were significantly more likely than non-liberal arts majors to change their major (82.0% So this is very concerning." and -0.7%, respectively).

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Nobody is going to tell our story and keep it from erasure but us.” We are in the next phase of pushing forward.”

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Targeting the Technical : Prioritizing Analysis of Student Transcripts in Degree Reclamation Efforts to Improve Student Completion Outcomes

IHEP

For a wide array of reasons, students stop out from their higher education path each semester, and many never return. Key findings include: Running degree audits for transfer-oriented degrees in general studies and liberal arts yield the most earned credentials. by: Sheena A. Kauppila, and Leanne Davis.

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

Inside Higher Ed

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. While we disagree with the [trial’s] outcome, the university respects the judicial process.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

Inside Higher Ed

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. percent from the previous year and about 18.4

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