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DeSantis seeks to overhaul small liberal arts college

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In his first term as Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis sought to reshape higher education at the state level, pushing changes to accreditation requirements and tenure while requiring widely criticized intellectual diversity surveys and limiting diversity, equity and inclusion instruction in public colleges.

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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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Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 156 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Jeff Scheuer

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23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

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million who enrolled in fall 2020, soon after the COVID-19 pandemic began. million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. In 2020, community college enrollment dropped a whopping 10.5 and 2 percent.

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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 in 2020, the paper says. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

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William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. The COVID-19 pandemic, concern over financial stabilization, and changes in public attitudes toward higher education have all created the need to rethink the missions and values of William & Mary.

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Humanities majors should pay lower tuition (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

If we include popular majors like communications, the share of humanities majors was just under 10 percent in 2020. Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal. Allow me to explain. Assistant Professor.