Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

To promote teaching innovation, institutions establish a teaching center and an instructional design and educational technology center. Campuses find it extremely difficult to achieve a consensus about essential undergraduate learning outcomes or how to agree about how to measure whether students actually achieve these objectives.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

You test, try, tune, collaborate, pull ideas together, and work towards achieving those mission and vision elements. NU is designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and has a 50-year history of innovating around the needs of military, working, and other nontraditional students. Then you get going. I love that frame.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

This holistic approach encompasses marketing, recruitment, admissions, and retention strategies, all aimed at achieving optimal enrollment and graduation rates. You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

2 August · Episode 166 ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech 42 Min · By Drumm McNaughton Higher ed leaders who want to increase inclusion while maintaining affordability can emulate the actions of Illinois Tech's ELEVATE program.

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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. There’s more technology available in them.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. ” In his words: the proposed model “will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Several weeks ago, Taylor Lorenz, a Washington Post technology columnist blasted those academics, including Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt, who attribute increasing rates of teenage depression to the time teenage girls spend on social media. He, like me, attended a liberal arts college, and that was truly a magical time.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

A recent article identified some of those processes: climate change, deglobalization, demographic decline, and digital technologies, to which I’d add, challenges to liberal capitalism, liberal democracy, liberal internationalism, and even liberal education. It evolved without a plan or central direction.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Today’s young people achieve the markers of full adulthood much later than in the recent past. Sweeping survey courses on such topics as big history (the sweeping history of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity), ethics, religion, cognitive distortions, social science methods and thinking, and world art, literature, or music.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Inquiring minds would like to know.

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