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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

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Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. STEM and science students have OPT , scientists and accounting and finance majors have jobs at both fintech and technology companies – humanities students are feeling the lack of options.

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

University Business

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. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

For instance, kinesthetic learning often takes place in classrooms and may contribute to the success of some neurodiverse learners, whereas they may have previously struggled in classrooms that heavily focused on either auditory, visual, and reading or writing (El-Amin, 2020). As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students.

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The Necessary Imagination: a new educational dialectic

HEPI

Using the century old ideas of the Surrealists I will argue that, like them in the 1920s and 1930s, we stand on the edge of an educational revolution that requires radical new shapes. Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination This short article is designed to provoke thought.

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New Analysis of Ph.D. Debt, Job Placements

Inside Higher Ed

A new analysis of federal Survey of Earned Doctorates data by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences finds a substantial racial divide in who is accumulating debt in doctoral studies: from 2015 to 2020, approximately 55 percent of Native American and Black students with a Ph.D. Looking at job commitments for new Ph.D.s,

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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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Embedding Learning Styles and Neurodiversity to Educate the Workforce of Today and Tomorrow

Faculty Focus

For instance, kinesthetic learning often takes place in classrooms and may contribute to the success of some neurodiverse learners, whereas they may have previously struggled in classrooms that heavily focused on either auditory, visual, and reading or writing (El-Amin, 2020). As such, one approach to teaching does not work for all students.