Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Tenured Faculty Raises Alarm as Gettysburg Eyes Fewer Adjuncts Ryan Quinn Mon, 10/16/2023 - 03:00 AM The Pennsylvania liberal arts college recently made headlines for closing its literary journal. Professors say they now fear more cuts. Byline(s) Ryan Quinn

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Image: After a missed bond payment and months of uncertainty, Cazenovia College will close. College officials remained tight-lipped, telling Inside Higher Ed earlier this fall only that “discussions continue to take place” on the outstanding bond payment. Now college leaders have made a clear decision about its future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2023

Petersen will become president of Hendrix College, effective June 2023. Petersen Petersen is a professor of political science and dean of the Henry Kendall College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tulsa (TU). This appointment makes her the second woman to lead the school. Dr. Karen K.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. She will step into her role on July 1, 2023. Danielle Ren Holley is breaking ground.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 10, 2024

Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) leaders are working to assist in transferring students affected by the institution’s recently announced closure, which takes place on May 31. BSC is a 168-year-old private liberal arts college, enrolling around 1,300 students from 34 states and nine countries.

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University Business

MARCH 4, 2024

Administrators from Notre Dame College in Ohio have announced that the century-old Roman Catholic school in Ohio will be closing its doors at the end of the semester. The college has already coordinated Teach-Out agreements with several neighboring colleges and universities to ensure the closure does not hurt its students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 7, 2023

Walters will be stepping down as president of Tougaloo College, effective June 30. In 2019, many alumni voiced their dissent of her candidacy due to her lack of liberal arts college experience, which proved to be prescient,” the coalition stated. The Board of Trustees seemingly disregarded their concerns.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Citing inflationary pressures and slumping enrollment, Cazenovia College announced it will close in 2023. The move comes after the college missed a bond payment months earlier.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 2, 2023

To address overcrowding amid an enrollment surge, Middlebury College is offering $10,000 to upperclassmen to delay their studies, the Associated Press reported. The small liberal arts school typically has 2,500-2,600 students, but enrollment this fall could be upward of 2,845, a Middlebury spokesperson said.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, a small Catholic institution in New Hampshire, will close at the end of the academic year due to low enrollment and financial challenges, WMUR 9 reported. The local ABC affiliate reported that Magdalen currently enrolls about 60 students.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Students at the liberal arts university now have the opportunity to opt into a three-year pathway for 34 of its traditional bachelor’s of arts degrees. More from UB: Lawmakers, donors disagreed on DEI in 2023. Everything from English to political science and biology qualifies. “Those are our students.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. From fall 2021 to fall 2023, enrollment in computer and information sciences increased by 21.4% At Middlebury College (Vt.),

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Anne McCall will become the 13th president of the College of Wooster, effective July 2023, which will make her the second woman in the role. Dr. Anne McCall "I'm honored and thrilled to be chosen as the next president of the College of Wooster," McCall said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Civil rights leader Maya Wiley will be the keynote speaker at the New College of Florida (NCF) graduating Class of 2023’s alternative commencement ceremony May 18, the Herald Tribune reported. Maya Wiley Wiley – civil rights activist, attorney, and professor – is the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

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Gray Associates

MARCH 21, 2024

Explore Gray DI’s latest analysis of Fall 2023 enrollment data from the National Student Clearinghouse, revealing a four percent increase in new college enrollment nationwide.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

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. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After a missed bond payment and months of uncertainty, Cazenovia College will close. Now college leaders have made a clear decision. “Considerable time and effort have been spent on improving the College’s financial position over the past several years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Ten years in the making The story of Black Studies at the Massachusetts public community college goes back a decade. As such, the school began offering the degree program this fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

McPherson College in Kansas could be the recipient of a $500 million gift, depending on donor matches. The gift to the McPherson College endowment— announced Friday —is believed to be the largest gift to a small liberal arts college in history, according to the college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Williams College faculty voted 81-5 to approve the creation of an Asian American studies (AAS) concentration beginning Fall 2023, The Williams Record reported. The vote – done at a Dec.

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The PIE News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

News rankings, published on September 18, saw MIT come in second place in its rankings for national universities, with Harvard and Stanford in a tie at third place and Yale taking fifth place – an entirely unchanged top five from 2023.

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University Business

AUGUST 30, 2023

Yet another college ranking has arrived, and it, too, boasts its unique methodology on the backdrop of the U.S. Washington Monthly’s 2023 National University Rankings analyzed over 1,500 higher education institutions registered with the U.S. News’ recent wallop of criticisms.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Richard Rhodes – Texas A&M University-Central Texas Ever since Richard Rhodes served as Texas A&M University-Central Texas’ interim president in September 2023, he’s gained the trust of the system chancellor—so much so that he’s earned the permanent position. ” Steven Tepper – Hamilton College (N.Y.)

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University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

High school students molded by the pandemic are rejuvenated to experience an in-person college experience again. These are some key takeaways EAB gathered in their latest meta-report that creates a comprehensive picture of higher education’s future college cohort: “Gen P.” That’s an 8% rise compared to 2021.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Olaf College also rank highly due to their exceptional graduation rates and grant rewards. As a result, 736 colleges were considered.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU. We’ve invested in Public Health, Addiction Studies, and expanded our portfolio of nursing programs to create pathways from community college to the doctorate in nursing practice. This is my last day as provost, and it has been a rewarding and challenging ride.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How a Small College Overcame Student List Source Volatility with Cappex Candidates Small Private College in the Midwest with 1,000+ Undergraduate Students About Students were forced to forego standardized testing in favor of social distancing after the onset of the pandemic. Review our poll results to find out.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2023

Hampshire College, the private liberal arts college known for its experimental teaching style, admitted 13 students in 2019. Hampshire College is now set to welcome more than 300 students, its largest class since 2018. Its Fall 2023 admission numbers are a 17% increase over last year, according to a statement.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. Q: Your Ph.D. is in linguistics.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. As a student, the first time I set foot in my college’s career center was in my senior year. DeVry is a for-profit college with a strong vocational orientation; as such, the career center there carried much more weight than it had at other places. That wasn’t unusual.

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Deans for Impact

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Sitting in on EDUC 1301: Introduction to the Teaching Profession at Odessa College last semester, Pervis Evans is conscious that he doesn’t quite fit in with the other students, a majority of whom are recent high school graduates. The application for the 2023-24 Impact Academy fellowship is open now through April 1, 2023.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures. Currently, all the state’s community colleges and public universities, as well as 18 independent colleges and universities, participate in one or more of the pathways.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

State of Play 2023 The state of higher education seems to live near a precipice, and as we enter a new year, many of us are clinging to the edge. National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Changes 3. The “ demographic cliff ,” when we know the number of traditional college-age students will drop by about 1.1

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

News & World Report released its latest college rankings yesterday, and colleges are touting their improvements, prevailing against the barrage of criticism it received at the turn of the year. Coming into 2023, U.S. In one month’s time, Rhode Island School of Design, Colorado College and Bard College (N.Y.)

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University Business

APRIL 16, 2024

The inflation-adjusted sticker price at a four-year public college rose by 66% from the 1995-96 academic year to 2019-20 and increased by 79% at private colleges. Only 26% of in-state public college students paid this published rate in 2019-20, compared to the 53% who did three decades ago.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Seven years of college down the drain”? You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years. You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years.” ” College, say Wall Street Journal contributors Scott L.

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