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

University Business

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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Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education?

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the small private college has traditionally championed the classical values of a liberal arts education. With support from its Board of Trustees, Middlebury has expanded its recruitment of Pell Grant students by offering competitive financial aid packets to underresourced students. appeared first on University Business.

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

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At Penn State, he has co-led initiatives to enhance student success, grow interdisciplinary research, lead service teams focused on faculty recruitment and retention and helped develop a new budget allocation model. Bergman was the first woman to lead the private liberal arts college when she stepped in in 2014.

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How Two Colleges Are Responding to the Race-Conscious Admissions Ban

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Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. In your view, how will this decision affect academia in the long term? who exchange ideas and best practices to implement equitable and inclusive strategies on their campuses.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

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Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

This mind-set is driven by the increasing importance of “corporate” leadership models as well as the growing predominance of STEM research culture in academia. Is it accessible to readers outside academia? And I don’t just mean that we need to better support those units on our campuses—although we do.

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Two-year colleges strain to hire instructors in technical fields

Inside Higher Ed

Community colleges across the country are having similar issues recruiting professors, particularly in career and technical education fields such as nursing, computer programming and automotive technology, where potential instructors can often find better pay outside academia.

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