University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. Both Jenkins and Gillespie noted that Bates’ commitment to the liberal arts made Jenkins a great fit to foster “student engagement” and a “culture of collaboration.”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So I guess that just means, we’ve had a history of,when we have problems, we just need to crack on and solve them because if we wait for other people to help the problem will have overtaken us. Just because of the function of time zones, we’re literally when we are up. And of course the reverse is also true. Am I crazy?

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

In academia, I've always been enamored with folks who can work the art of leadership in a really clear way, all kinds of models, all kinds of people who've inspired me to think, 'If I could just steal a little of that, a little of that.'

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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. The main focus now is career readiness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As we celebrate Black History Month, a close examination of Shirley Chisholm’s rise in progressive politics is not only important, but it is necessary. It is no coincidence that after leaving Congress, Chisholm joined academia where she taught at Mount Holyoke College — a private women’s liberal arts college in Massachusetts.

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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). HOLY SWEET CRAP that casual equation of “fewer liberal arts students” = universities becoming vocational schools.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. [00:00:28]

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

They have told [people of color] our history is irrelevant and that our stories are not worth telling,” says Marlo Crosby, vice president of the UNF SDS. 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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