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Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., BQLP students gain a network of queer colleagues and mentors while also learning how to advocate for themselves and their community. 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.

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HBCU among NAFSA award recipients

The PIE News

Also receiving the Spotlight Award was liberal arts institution Cedar Crest College , Pennsylvania, for its Carmen Twillie Ambar Sophomore Expedition. Congrats #AlbanyState for receiving the 2023 NAFSA Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award, for its Curriculum Internationalization initiative.

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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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President moves: Recent spate of leaders to announce retirement boast impressive résumés

University Business

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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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

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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Mathematicians resume in-person meetings in trying times

Inside Higher Ed

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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US institutions recalibrate internationalisation priorities post pandemic

The PIE News

The institution’s Internationalisation Lab subcommittees include focus on International Recruitment & Retention, Education Abroad, International Research, Scholarship, & Partnerships, Curriculum & Co-curriculum and Faculty & Staff Support. International recruitment.