Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

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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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Cordon recently spent five years as the Young Women general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

One striking example was highlighted in the case of a highly regarded private liberal arts college in the Midwest when it recently issued a public announcement about the creation of a department of African Diaspora studies on campus.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They are a viable marketing asset and should be cultivated as crucial lifetime brand advocates. Many state universities have done so well with this tactic that they’ve eclipsed smaller liberal arts colleges. Each graduate is more than a potential donor. But private schools win this way, too.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

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.

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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. including college and university counselors.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Miller believes private liberal arts colleges, as well as community colleges, are trying harder to recruit male students in particular, in part by offering more sports participation options. ” He said more analysis would be needed to understand why the data showed an increase in male students.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The final rules were similar to the draft regulations released over the summer, though the department declined to make many of the changes requested by advocates, Custer said. The role of the corrections agencies has concerned some of those running programs behind bars and other advocates.

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ACRLog

AUGUST 11, 2022

Historically, the capacities I am referring to have been transmitted to learners through the artes liberales (or liberal arts), a Greco-Roman ideal based on the assumption that a flourishing and cooperative society requires a population that is systematically trained in critical, interdisciplinary thinking.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Of these institutions, public campuses are less likely to be stable than their liberal arts and private, nonprofit counterparts. While not the only reason for this change, a lack of public trust in higher education is a big part of the challenge in advocating the value of an education to elected officials—only 51% of U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Another mathematics professor at a liberal arts college who has served on the American Mathematical Society Council spoke on the condition of anonymity, as she was not authorized to speak in that capacity. This professor advocated for her math department to cancel its American Mathematical Society membership, and it agreed to do so.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

” Together with colleagues at other community colleges, Brennan has also advocated for an international education “re-think” at community colleges. Efforts at Grinnell College indicate that internationalisation is not limited to public institutions.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 14, 2022

This is the heart of a liberal-arts education. We teach our students to verify what they read and hear, we help them to think critically about the information and perspectives they encounter, and we encourage them to advocate for their conclusions. Let us hope that those who drive the media will do likewise. [1] 2] Ibid.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

McGuire was referring to the many changes the university, which was founded as a liberal arts college for women 125 years ago, has undergone in recent decades. “In fact, we are something of a unicorn, being still primarily a women’s college,” she said. ’” Chavez said.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In retaliation for Stern’s internal and external activism, Auburn in 2009 suddenly moved the department of economics out of the College of Business and into the College of Liberal Arts, the lawsuit said. Going Public.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 30, 2022

As we welcomed you on August 23 rd 2018, I spoke about our academic theme of Resilience stating: The Liberal Arts provide us with an array of viewpoints and historical perspectives so we can better contextualize and understand the challenges we encounter in our lives.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

AUGUST 26, 2022

We are here because deeply engaging in the life of the mind and opening ourselves up to the holistic world view that is the core of a liberal arts education prepare us to make good and often difficult decisions. As a living learning community, we must always strive to be better.

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The Student Affairs Collective

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

I then pursued a graduate assistantship with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at The University of Connecticut, and am also working in a practicum within the School of Social Work. This was textbook academic/student affairs partnership – check!

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Design Around the Student Monica Parrish Trent, vice president of network engagement at Achieving the Dream, advocates not just holistic advising but holistic student support in general. The effects were biggest for underrepresented student groups.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Whether it’s building something new or redesigning existing space, Frater also advocates for nimble spaces. A student at a liberal arts college in Georgia described its arts building as being “in a serious state of disrepair.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff brings with him 20 years of experience in and around higher education and I don’t think you will find a more passionate advocate for both schools and the students they hope to reach. Both Jeff and Mae are thoughtful and enthusiastic advocates for the campus visit and I’m excited to welcome them both. Mae Watters: I am.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The first thing that comes to mind is if it’s a proposal to reduce, does that mean a reduction in general education or the liberal arts and sciences at a time when that type of education is more critical than ever for addressing the wicked problems and grand challenges of which COVID-19 was emblematic?”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The host and guests advocate for strategic decision-making and innovation as key to navigating these challenging times. And those colleges, especially private, small liberal arts colleges, are highly clustered in the Midwest and the Northeast. the demographics are very daunting. And, they’re not likely to do it.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The goal among many in higher education advocating for DEI is to foster not only the understanding of but also the granting of respect to each viewpoint and those who hold it. Those advocating for DEI, in contrast, frequently want to shut out an ever-widening set of ideas, including some that are held by many. I have my doubts.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Especially from the perspective of someone like me, who has long been an advocate for the transformative impact of experiential learning on students’ social and economic mobility, and a critic of higher education’s tendency to overlook students’ career preparation in favor of other goals? or Seattle—an untenable dream.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 31, 2023

I’ve devoted the past decade and a half to researching and advocating for evidence-based policies and interventions that show the greatest promise for increasing access to educational and economic opportunities in the United States. But his current one is Inside The Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 13, 2023

Their curriculum is truly balanced and includes training in academic success skills and a rich liberal arts core. Participation in an affinity group or a learning community organized around a theme or shared interest can provide students with the support and affirmation they need to succeed.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. As their Charter states, the purpose of the Academy is: … to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people. [9]

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although Weiss had never run a museum, his background as an art historian specializing in the European Middle Ages and as president of a small liberal arts college, Haverford, proved to be valuable preparation for his job.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Advocates and researchers said the list would be helpful and a good start in highlighting programs that don’t serve students well, though they acknowledge the challenge ahead for the department to define a program’s financial value. “The Department of Education is doing, in some ways, what it can.”

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

“We have remarkable institutions in every way, shape or form from the largest research ones all the way to these immaculate small, private liberal arts colleges that do such a wonderful job, but I’m not entirely sure that we do a good job as a nation in ensuring access to all of that opportunity.”

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Multiple speakers also pointed to the contrast between Midland, a small, private liberal arts college with an enrollment of about 1,000 students during Sasse’s presidency, and the University of Florida, a research institution with Division I athletics and 60,000 students. Sasse’s Senate office did not provide a response.).

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

One of the reasons for this shrinkage is a course correction from the growth into liberal arts degrees and other areas, particularly by large for-profits, and that’s where we’re seeing the retreat. At the same time, there’s a continued hyperfocus by some policy makers and advocates on the profit question.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

It is critical that students and faculty who have benefited from DEI programs and initiatives share their experiences with state legislatures and college administrators and advocate for safeguards, says Baker. Government overstep into higher education is a common fear among many DEI experts and advocates.

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