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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia. The news has not been good.

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Academic Libraries Champion DEI Efforts

Insight Into Diversity

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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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., Students attend a variety of events, including a Colloquium in Queer Culture and leadership seminars. Because [our college] already [has] existing programs, we don’t have to start from zero.” ● This article was published in our October 2023 issue.

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Meredith College offers employees low-cost Italian getaway

Inside Higher Ed

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Because it’s small, we know everybody, and so we’re always invited to wine tastings and included in events that they have.” is doing something else: offering faculty and staff members a low-cost Italian getaway.

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Belmont University hires new VP of hope, unity and belonging

Inside Higher Ed

While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance. Yes In-Article Careers: 6

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U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

Inside Higher Ed

institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St. Kokobobo said the larger community in nearby Kansas City was eager to support the event. So, it was very grassroots.”

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Indigenous Ways of Knowing, a Faculty’s Journey to Redesign Native American Art Online Course

WCET Frontiers

As the only full-time art faculty at the college, much of this work fell to me, Nate Wilson, Fine Arts Instructor. While I’m mostly a studio arts guy, drawing, sculpture, painting, and the like, I do have some art history background, both in the classroom and taking students abroad to London.