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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. He will take the helm Aug. 1, succeeding Dr. Anne M. Houtman, who will retire in July after a five-year term as president.

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Maya Wiley Announced as Keynote Speaker for New College of Florida Alternative Commencement Ceremony

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Maya Wiley Wiley – civil rights activist, attorney, and professor – is the CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. They have advocated tirelessly for the freedom to learn free of politics, for the freedom to be who they are, and for the freedom to fight for a campus community that embraces all who work and learn in it.

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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. Doug Shapiro, executive research director at the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The data also find that over half of transfer students decided to change their major when making their move.

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Representation Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. She is active in the National Women’s Studies Association and has been a vocal advocate for HBCUs developing women’s and gender studies programming. Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program.

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Endangered Indigenous Languages: Universities Advance Revitalization Efforts

Insight Into Diversity

A project at Montclair State University (MSU), a public research university in New Jersey, focuses on reviving the Native American Munsee language, while faculty and students at Haverford College, a private liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, are working in Oaxaca, Mexico, to safeguard Zapotec languages.

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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

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Both Jenkins and Gillespie noted that Bates’ commitment to the liberal arts made Jenkins a great fit to foster “student engagement” and a “culture of collaboration.” ” Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills, Aurora University (Aurora, Ill.) News Ranking’s public law school ranks 18 spots to #6.