University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Academic (re)program Last year, Georgia Tech University’s liberal arts college organized a symposium on interdisciplinary learning in the 21st century, inviting academics from across the institution. More from UB: Scammers, fraudsters are putting academia in peril. What can we do?

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University Business

APRIL 19, 2024

Bergman was the first woman to lead the private liberal arts college when she stepped in in 2014. Prior to her 18 years of executive leadership, Bergman had no career in academia. Her wealth of professional experience was her 26 years working as an engineer and senior executive at a medical device company.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College.

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University Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

He came into power at the small liberal arts school after a DeSantis-backed overhaul of the Board of Trustees ousted former President Patricia Okker. Corcoran won out against two other presidential prospects with extensive experience in academia. Retired Kim Mooney – Franklin Pierce University (N.H.) Martin, Sr.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

While this problem is often framed by academia as a decrease in the supply of students—the so-called “enrollment cliff,” the hot job market, and so on—I think it is better understood as a failure to respond to changing demand and new opportunities. He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. When it’s all political appointees, they see it as a political tool rather than as an engine for a region or state. These are all things that you can get from not only a STEM background but mainly from a liberal arts education.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

One solution to rising tuition costs would be that a large consortium of schools, e.g., PAC-12 schools or all Midwest liberal arts schools that happen to compete with one another, should announce they are not going to raise tuition by more than inflation each year for the next ten years. Are colleges meant to train clergy?

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