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

University Business

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment. What can we do?

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

University Business

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

University Business

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. Lisa Coleman – Adler University (Ill.) Coleman begins on Sept.

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

Insight Into Diversity

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? What can colleges and universities do to ensure equitable admission without violating the court’s ruling?

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

University Business

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. from Arizona State University in Psychology.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? Like most underrepresented scholars, I consider these students my own, and mentoring them is a privilege and a blessing.

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The War on DEI

Insight Into Diversity

So to limit access to the information that strengthens us is troubling for a government to do,” says Richard Baker , JD, P hD , executive director of institutional equity and equal employment opportunity and Title IX coordinator at Rice University. As of press time, more than a dozen other states had moved into the political fray. says Baker.