Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

How might this precept apply to higher education? As the historian Henry Steele Commager observed six decades ago, American higher education is an amalgam of four distinct educational traditions. But we can learn from experience and draw upon those lessons as we make decisions that will shape the future.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014. Adding Layers With the foundation of a general education core in place, the Legislature turned its attention in 2017 to investing in a set of multi-institutional agreements in popular majors.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. ” The article raises a lot of issues swirling around the more elite segments of higher education: Are academic standards diminishing? ” The article raises a lot of issues swirling around the more elite segments of higher education: Are academic standards diminishing?

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