Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

The preliminary data offer a peek at spring 2023 enrollment compared to spring 2022. In fall 2022, the undergraduate enrollment decline slowed to 0.6 Yes In-Article Careers: 3 ” He said more analysis would be needed to understand why the data showed an increase in male students.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

In short, since 2022, the Mathematical Association of America has no longer shared management of the Joint Math Meetings. At the time, hundreds of mathematicians around the country celebrated Thompson’s article for pushing back against what they saw as an intrusion of politics into an otherwise neutral discipline.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

At the online university where I work, students are introduced to the idea of growth and fixed mindsets upon entrance to college programming; furthermore, research indicates that multiple direct and indirect exposures to growth mindset interventions result in statistically significant positive attitudinal changes (Chambers, Lowe, and Muldrow, 2022).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bloomfield—a small private liberal arts college in Bloomfield, N.J., Bloomfield will remain independent in the 2022–23 academic year, with the merger becoming official next June. Like many small liberal arts colleges, Bloomfield has dealt with dwindling enrollment for years. A Plea for Help.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

Gregory Jones, the university’s president, wanted someone who would bring a certain set of skills to the institution, which had 7,384 undergraduates attending in 2022. Yes In-Article Careers: 6 ” When Belmont administrators were developing the job description for the new position, L.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

During my seven years leading facilities operations at Butler University—a private liberal arts and professional institution in Indianapolis—I had the honor of working closely with the late Tom Weede. And this isn’t just a problem for smaller, private, tuition-dependent and less well-endowed institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

in public health in 2022. Emily Burke, senior director of workforce development and applied practice at ASPPH and another author of the study, said that focusing on public health at the undergraduate level is in some ways akin to pursuing the liberal arts. ” Edson is hardly alone. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

At the online university where I work, students are introduced to the idea of growth and fixed mindsets upon entrance to college programming; furthermore, research indicates that multiple direct and indirect exposures to growth mindset interventions result in statistically significant positive attitudinal changes (Chambers, Lowe, and Muldrow, 2022).

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

With the discipline facing a surge of scrutiny in the wake of a viral New Yorker article published in late February called “ The End of the English Major ,” English faculty are employing a range of efforts to give their field new relevancy and pizzazz. Yes In-Article Careers: 3

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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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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Several articles caught my eye this week. Meanwhile, in a section titled “Private Colleges Branch Out to Stand Out,” the article tells us “A Pew Research Center analysis released this month noted that Hispanic enrollment more than doubled in the last two decades, growing from 1.5 million in 2000 to 3.8

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Donald Gould, a Pitzer trustee who led the 2015 search and was chairman of its board when the 2022 search began, said he emerged from the earlier search “feeling there would be benefits to a more open process.” You want to see how a president responds to tough questions and to various personalities at a college.

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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. The university awarded one bachelor’s degree in African and African American studies in fall 2022, a university spokeswoman said. “A working group was convened in Spring of 2022.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As the wave of closures of small liberal arts colleges across the United States continues, merging with a larger institution is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative. Worse yet, the merger agreement was not announced until late October 2022, after the academic hiring cycle for the year was over.

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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 early 2022, Ron Cole, then Allegheny’s provost, released a staffing and academic programs plan that differed significantly from the task force report.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Some of the largest filings for union elections with the National Labor Relations Board in 2022 involved graduate worker unions, including those at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, Northwestern University and Johns Hopkins University. But this, too, was voluntary and not part of students’ official coursework.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

In just six years, the program has grown from 17 fellows in fall 2017 to 134 in fall 2022, supporting 209 students to date. XULA students in liberal arts or STEM can enter Lehigh’s master of science in management program, earning a degree in 10 months. This article was published in our April 2023 issue.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

To kick off the our work on WCET Awards for this year, I’m so thrilled to showcase our winners from the 2022 season. This also provided some direction for what a newly made Native American Art course should be like. He also provided some specific resources like articles or links to other helpful information.

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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. In December 2022, Catawba Valley Community College in North Carolina laid off 21 staff and six faculty members. Wesley College is now DSU’s downtown campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Financial Literacy Need In a 2022 Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse survey , only four in 10 college students called their financial knowledge “excellent” or “good.” Among the many resources present, she envisions an institution could create a credit-based, required course to count toward a liberal arts degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Bill Hwang, a trader who earned billions on Wall Street, pumped several million into the college before his 2022 arrest on fraud charges. 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

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Results from a recent Student Voice survey , conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse with support from Kaplan, and the flurry of thoughtful articles in response, make it clearer than ever that internships must play a large part in the future of higher education. Is this diversity newsletter?: Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 14, 2022

But a national survey conducted in 2022 suggests that the number of high school juniors and seniors planning to attend fully online colleges has more than doubled since before the pandemic. The extra 10,000 students could, on their own, populate a midsize traditional university, or several small liberal arts colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

“I’m not hearing this morning about a migration away from the liberal arts, or the death of the liberal arts,” Daniel Lugo, president of Queens University of Charlotte and the session’s moderator, said to the three female executives on the stage with him. “I’m still a big believer.”

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

We co-authored an article together, and we ended up with this frame: the core of good leadership is getting grounded, getting real, and getting going. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one for a 2009 series of Inside Higher Ed articles on college rankings.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: In January 2022, Bates College employees voted on forming a union that would include non-tenure-track faculty, dining employees, custodians and others. Their employer, a private liberal arts college in Maine, argued that—if there were going to be any unions—there should be separate bargaining units for faculty and staff.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. Resources such as Khan Academy, specialized podcasts, Ted Talks, or audio versions of long articles offer various paths to learning in multiple ways.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Miller criticized a New York Times article on the controversy for saying that an adjunct had lost her job as a result of the incident. Hamline is a liberal arts institution, the oldest in Minnesota, the first to admit women, and now led by a woman of color. ” And she noted limits on academic freedom.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 9, 2023

On November 30, 2022, OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a program designed to mimic human intelligence. Not dissimilar are the college classrooms of smaller, liberal arts colleges. Resources such as Khan Academy, specialized podcasts, Ted Talks, or audio versions of long articles offer various paths to learning in multiple ways.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 14, 2023

since the late 1960s, with a slight peak in 2006-2007, followed by a faster decline through 2022. From 1992 to 2022, tuition and fees rose 80.24 schools in the 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic years. Birth rates have been incrementally falling in the U.S. percent at private nonprofit institutions; 124.64

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“A teeny liberal arts college can’t make that investment.” Magazine treatment: Trending: Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 9 In-Article Advertisement High: 15 In-Article related stories: 45 In-Article Advertisement Low: 25 Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Photo courtesy of Justin Nedrow Spinnaker Media Photography) A Florida bill proposed in February, House Bill 999, expands on DeSantis’ Stop WOKE Act , signed in 2022. New College of Florida, a small, public liberal arts honors college in Sarasota, has served as proof of concept for DeSantis and his allies’ attacks on DEI.

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