Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Data available on the website show that unlike most liberal arts colleges, Adrian’s enrollment has boomed, increasing from under 1,000 students in 2005 to roughly 1,900 today. According to federal data, Adrian listed 97 full-time instructors in 2019, but that number had dropped to 85 by 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Instead, American universities have adopted the expedient, but ultimately harmful, practice of keeping tuition fees for all liberal arts degrees essentially equal. 2021–22 Median Salaries for Tenure-Track Faculty. Source: CUPA-HR 2021-22 Survey of Faculty in Higher Education. Discipline. Assistant Professor.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Over all, we found that the number of assistant professors increased in 101 of 154 academic disciplines between 2011 and 2021. percent between 2011 and 2021. liberal arts colleges, community colleges and master’s-level institutions) is necessary to understand the full picture of academic hiring. is clearly growing.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Through extensive discussions over the last five years, MAA and AMS have agreed the collaboration no longer meets the needs of our organizations and will change following JMM 2021,” the message read. In short, since 2022, the Mathematical Association of America has no longer shared management of the Joint Math Meetings.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

One of Jones’s first priorities when he arrived at Belmont in 2021 was for campus stakeholders to look deeper at the university’s identity as an institution and come up with ideas that reflected its values and mission. Yes In-Article Careers: 6

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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. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Afghan women, who’d been worried about their opportunities since the militant Sunni Muslim ruling power took over the country in August 2021, saw their dreams of attaining a postsecondary degree quashed—no matter how close they were to earning it. Dozens of male Afghan professors resigned in protest. Simon’s Rock, Mass.;

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

By the end of the century, 1,500 languages could cease to exist, according to a 2021 study by a group of Australian researchers, “Global Predictors of Language Endangerment and the Future of Linguistic Diversity,” published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution. nonprofit working to protect and revitalize languages across the globe.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. The proposed substantive change was approved by Clark’s accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education, in April 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution. scale, with 1.5 Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 It’s adding them July 1. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The types of research-related opportunities available to students will differ based on the type of institution (interested readers may refer to our previous article, “ Writing Your First Grant ,” (Cappon & Kennette, 2022) for tips to secure some funding). We will share additional data from this survey throughout this article.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The types of research-related opportunities available to students will differ based on the type of institution (interested readers may refer to our previous article, “ Writing Your First Grant ,” (Cappon & Kennette, 2022) for tips to secure some funding). We will share additional data from this survey throughout this article.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” The college said its plan also “calls for Allegheny to have a student-to-faculty ratio that is aligned with other national liberal arts colleges. In 2021, amid COVID-19, the college said that it was experiencing a structural deficit and needed to cut at least $1.5 Chinese Cut.

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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 federal judge dismissed Stern’s claims of conspiracy in 2021, but his First Amendment retaliation claim survived.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 15, 2021. Check out a monthly, one-year, two-year, or three-year subscription for more articles like this. In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The December 2022 issue of Jacobin , which bills itself as “a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics and culture,” contains a provocative article entitled “I Love Higher Education. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities. Digging Into the Data Using federal education data, Lightcast researchers found growth at 2,274 out of 8,007 new programs studied from 2016–17 through 2021, for a success rate of 28.4 Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The 13-member Board of Trustees at New College of Florida, including six trustees appointed by DeSantis, also ousted the college’s president Tuesday as a step toward their stated vision of making the liberal arts college more like Hillsdale College , a private Christian institution in Michigan. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on March 15, 2021. Check out a monthly, one-year, two-year, or three-year subscription for more articles like this. In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So it’s very surprising that Colby College is not a stem institution, it’s a private liberal arts college that established the institute called the Davis Institute for artificial intelligence in 2021.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

XULA students in liberal arts or STEM can enter Lehigh’s master of science in management program, earning a degree in 10 months. The program launched in 2021 and has grown from 20 students in its first year to 65 in 2023. This article was published in our April 2023 issue.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

**Editors note: A previous version of this post included a section with references to a news release and two news articles, on the University System of New Hampshire and a previously proposed plan to combine with additional institutions. The state did not move forward with that plan and there are no related plans being discussed now.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

Outside of the liberal arts, programs in risk include business, journalism/communication, education, nursing, and family & consumer sciences. Institutional Closings The majority of school closings are for-profit institutions, but nonprofits, rural colleges, and small liberal arts colleges are most at risk for closure.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

This is the second of four installments in our (Re)Precedented Webinar Series, which originally took place live in September and October of 2021. ?. Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Webinar Summary.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

And this came in the summer of 2021, so we had gone through a very challenging year where a lot of faculty had been forced to do things that they never would have imagined doing if it hadn’t been for the pandemic,” said Sean Condon, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Merrimack College.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

The college struck a deal with Primacorp in April 2021, with the stated goals of growing in-person enrollment and adding online programs. If the King’s College closes, it will eliminate a rarity: an evangelical liberal arts college located in the heart of Wall Street. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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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. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management and associate dean of academic affairs at the University of California, Berkeley, and co-author of the second article, said, “Our findings show that women are rated significantly lower as they age from younger to middle age, with their lowest teaching ratings emerging at age 47.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

The extra 10,000 students could, on their own, populate a midsize traditional university, or several small liberal arts colleges. Today, that population has grown to approximately 43,750 students. At that time, “we routinely said that traditional-aged students really don’t gravitate online.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

in 2021 so this demographic shift will herald a marked decrease in the college age students. In particular liberal arts colleges and second-tier US state universities will be under particular pressure. About the author: This is a sponsored article by Charles Cormack. Birth rates dropped from 4.3 million in 2007 to 3.7m

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2022

RAs at peer institutions are trying to seize the momentum from these victories, hoping to capitalize on the pressure for their progressive liberal arts schools to live the values they claim to espouse. In 2021, the administration successfully filed for a motion to postpone NLRB-mediated union elections.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

schools in the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic years. International student enrollment is making a comeback from the 46 percent drop in the 2020/2021 academic year, but it is still only 87 percent of the number of international students who were enrolled in 2019/2020.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

“Students, even if they go to liberal arts colleges, are thinking about future employment more often than I think some institutions would care to admit,” she said. “There has to be a nuanced approach, but we can’t continue to avoid a discussion about student earnings coming out of particular programs.

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