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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

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. “We mustn’t kill liberal education in order to save it, but we must also recognize that it is under genuine threat and that if it fails to adapt, it will only become even more marginal and peripheral,” wrote Steven Mintz, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. What can we do?

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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

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These programs too often lead to “poor outcomes, including poor retention, poor graduate employability, and poor long-term earnings potential,” the authors said. The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology.

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President moves: Administrators prove popular picks as next leader on the job

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Hired Devin Stephenson – Florida Polytechnic University Devin Stephenson has been selected to become Florida Polytechnic University’s next president, the second in the institution’s 12-year history. In Campbell’s 137-year history, there have only been five presidents. But Creed’s career was no minor note.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

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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. And of course, when they do that well, that makes a huge difference to student retention. And of course the reverse is also true.

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The War on DEI

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If you’re going to ban DEI as an office, does that mean you are banning support, retention, and recruitment programs in which underrepresented minorities are being recruited or are there retention efforts specifically for women in STEM?” It’s such a broad topic that general threats to ban it alarm practitioners, he says. “If