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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion.

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President moves: Recent resignations show 3 reasons why a leader steps down

University Business

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., In addition to these cuts, one lecturer was not reappointed.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor In 2018, at the very first of what would become many campus listening forums to help shape the framework of the university’s strategic plan, President Katherine A. In just the past two years, the number of computer science degrees went from 78 to 93.

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This startup trailblazer believes these 5 trends will shape the future of education

University Business

While the private online school is still in its embryonic stages since its founding in 2018, it aims to recruit over 100,000 students in the next few years, according to PIX 11. Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs.

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Highlights from Higher Ed: International Enrollment, Campus IT Challenges, Global Recruitment, and Most-Regretted Majors 

Liaison International

The rebound still leaves total enrollment of international students below its high-water mark, set in 2018-19 with 1,095,299 students.” The list of least-regretted majors was topped by computer/information science and criminology (both 72%), engineering (71%), nursing (69%), health (67%), and business (66%).