Remove Administration Remove History Remove Liberal Arts Remove Scholarship
article thumbnail

Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Holley added that mission-driven institutions have never been more important than now, “in such an era of censorship, book burning, and a denial of history.”

Deans 116
article thumbnail

St. Francis College Cuts Athletics

Inside Higher Ed

“There are challenges facing higher education institutions, particularly smaller liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, from which SFC is not immune. Francis College will continue to honor current athletic scholarships. Francis College Board of Trustees, said in a statement. Hide by line?:

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

President’s corner: Why Ed Feasel values cultivating global citizens at Soka University

University Business

“Others that have a long history—or even a short history—but don’t have that specific attention tend to maintain just a steady state.” ” Feasel’s experience as a higher education administrator is deeply rooted in SUA’s mission to develop global citizens.

article thumbnail

Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., The college also provides a $20,000 annual Queer Leadership scholarship to qualifying students. is a unit of Bard College in New York and is designed as an early college program for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students.

article thumbnail

Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. I think the answer is yes and, as we will see, this builds on the history of university honors, which has radically reworked its model over the past century. Honors 4.0.

article thumbnail

A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

Inside Higher Ed

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

article thumbnail

Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.