Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. They sponsor many college fairs.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2023

The sad fact is that advising and career counseling resources on most campuses are grossly inadequate and that instruction in writing is insufficient. As Chamorro-Premuzic puts it succinctly, “If we want to retain an edge over machines, it is advisable that we avoid acting like one.” Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

With their mammoth lectures, terrible student-to-adviser ratios, heavy reliance on teaching assistants and postdocs, and priority placed on research and grant-getting, many would say that the answer is an unequivocal no, except for the small minority of students who are in honors colleges.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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. Just because of the function of time zones, we’re literally when we are up. And of course the reverse is also true. Every day of the week.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 6: An education that provides more mentoring, more proactive academic and nonacademic advising and support and that embeds students in a learning community or cohort to promote a sense of belonging and connection. These cohort programs, too, can be directed by staff who can provide dedicated advising and mentoring.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

These extension programs don’t provide the high-level advising or support system that such students need. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. But it could, in my opinion, do something that no MOOC, no matter how well designed, could. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

Thanks to recommended reading assignments from his monthly University Leadership Council, President Milliron has a lot of them: "Recently we've been reading Extended Mind by Annie Paul, which is amazing; Range by David Epstein, which is phenomenal if you're a champion of liberal arts.

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Since guiding the institution through the grips of the pandemic and navigating the liberal arts institution’s students and staff through new modes of learning and teaching, he’s finally returned to center. ALEX Advisers act as a librarian of sorts to whom students can reach out to find assistance.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Our institutions also need to strengthen advising, both academic and non-academic. Maker spaces , collaborative workspaces where students can develop a project with support from mentors and advisers. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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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. Get to know your students better.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

But history without theory is thin gruel, and social scientists like Brint and Labaree play a crucial role in identifying the conceptual issues that their historian counterparts at times downplay. Let’s begin with the history of American higher education. As Professor Labaree makes clear, this history is highly distinctive.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Strengthen advising and counseling by expanding opportunities for one-on-one interactions with designated professionals. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Stepped-up advising, more aggressive interventions and academic and financial supports have made a genuine difference. Money that could be used to build better connections to employers, add more advisers or cut tuition is instead spent on the same trappings as research universities.” But much more needs to be done.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. 00:38:24] And there are a lot of those models, particularly among smaller, liberal arts institutions. And there’s no question that we are overpopulated with small undifferentiated liberal arts institutions.

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