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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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

The issue partly stems from ill-advised legislation, according to James Herbert of the University of New England in Maine. As result, the liberal arts college has rolled out FlightPath to build a strong support network around each of its students by pairing them with a success coach, a faculty advisor, a career coach and an alumni mentor.

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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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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel. I feel like teaching from home will humanize me,” a colleague said. Together, we bore witness to the horrors of human frailty. I nodded, and wondered what I was missing.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

From skills assessment rubrics to soft skills microcredentials , this generic conception strips away critical information about how skills are defined, used and rewarded by actual human beings. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist. So what can be done?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Then there is a fourth tradition, which represented a distinctively American contribution: A focus on human capital formation, local and regional economic development, entertainment and sports, and community service. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university. I don’t think so.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In more than a decade of teaching Romeo and Juliet at my small liberal arts college, I’d never had a student walk through class wearing only a towel. I feel like teaching from home will humanize me,” a colleague said. Together, we bore witness to the horrors of human frailty. I nodded, and wondered what I was missing.

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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.”

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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

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. offer more workshops on topics of high student interest. engage in more proactive outreach through a program of student ambassadors.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So it’s very surprising that Colby College is not a stem institution, it’s a private liberal arts college that established the institute called the Davis Institute for artificial intelligence in 2021.

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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. All of our futures depend on their success.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Shortly after the Taliban announced the ban, NAFSA, an association of international educators and foreign student advisers, released a statement urging the U.S. “These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As Mr. Lederman explained: “There are differences between institutions: a research university a community college; a 1500-student private liberal arts college; a regional public institution with 15,000 people. Our humanity is what connects us, not what we've achieved. They have some different priorities. What resonates and why?

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Scroll down to read about each of the capstone projects in the fellows’ own words. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” ” The forces that the broadcast examined were psychological, and included people’s emotions, fantasies, fears, and wishes.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

At NAU we appointed for the first time a chief economics adviser to the president who is designing some studies that will allow us to get some of those noneconomic value metrics, from the standpoint of what Arizona voters and taxpayers would be willing to invest in, in order to get those noneconomic outputs available to the state.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

President Milliron told us how this human factor has been the hardest challenge to navigate as a leader: "I've been incredibly blessed to work with inspirational and meaningful folks. You understand this is a Rubik's Cube, you've got to be able to twist and turn, and if you've never played the game before, it gets really tough."

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

He is the recipient of the WCET Richard Jonsen Award, CAEL’s Morris Keeton Ward, the President’s Medal from Excelsior College, and USDLA’s Distance Learning Hall of Fame Award, as well as an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Fielding Graduate University for his contributions to the field of adult learning.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The implications of the work she does are far-reaching, delivering the best outcomes for citizens across education, health, human services, defense, transport and infrastructure, and central agencies. And that, that human connection is so important. 00:07:45] Catherine: Yeah. and Drumm, I think that’s true. It really is.

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