Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Blog: Beyond Transfer While Michigan is synonymous with mobility when it comes to manufacturing vehicles of all shapes and sizes, every Michigander knows that a car is only as good as the road it is driven on—and we also know that many of Michigan’s highways have fallen into disrepair.

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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. The First Amendment and academic freedom are the cornerstones of higher education.” I’m going to hear about this.”

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Liaison International

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Sociology and liberal arts/general studies were tied for second place (72%), followed by communications (64%), education (61%), marketing (60%), medical/clinical assisting (58%), political science/government (56%), biology (52%), and English literature/language (52%). The number of international students enrolled in U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Remember Bluto’s classic line in Animal House —“Christ. ” Mastery of such vocational fields as physical therapy, accounting, marketing, hospitality management and culinary arts ought not “require a uniform four-year program,” the authors claim. I sure do.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Our second cohort concluded in December 2021, our third cohort wrapped up in spring 2022, our fourth occurred in fall 2022, and our fifth occurred in spring 2023. All cohorts ended with presentations of the fellows’ capstone projects. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. The company that Tony Blair’s son Euan founded, Multiverse, arranges professional apprenticeships in business operations, data science, and software engineering. I’m not referring to the Beta, Delta, or Omicron BA 1, BA4, and B5 COVID strains. It’s not alone.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Pomp and Circumstance Throughout graduation season, I have had a variety of conversations about the traditions, pageantry, and symbolism connected to commencement ceremonies and the trappings of the academy. I thought it would be timely to share some of the arcana that arises most frequently in those conversations.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Many attendees were members of at least one of the organizations—and often only one. But the community’s understanding of “joint” changed in late 2018 when the two organizations, in carefully worded emails, posts and tweets, announced their conscious uncoupling. Some were unfazed by the split.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

How Technology Could Impact the Future of International Education (Part I)?- With Hanna Lee Description: In this episode, we have our old friend Hanna back! We are talking about how technology influences our work at higher education and student affairs, particularly in international education. We will have two episodes talking about this topic.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. Already we know that associate degrees in most liberal arts fields don’t have much payoff in themselves – that is, absent transfer, which is what those degrees are for – and those at least have reasonably expansive gen ed requirements. And should it?

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Susquehanna President's Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Today, the Music School is one of the leading summer festivals for aspiring professionals, as are the Schools of Dance, Theatre, and Art. A School of Theology began in 1881, followed by the School of Liberal Arts in 1885. It was not only colleges and universities that slaked America’s thirst for enlightenment.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Not a day goes by that I don’t read something that shocks me, annoys me, frustrates me, rouses me, or inspires me. ” Or I don’t know whether to laugh for cry. Consider the following examples: Wealthy colleges have found a new way to separate potential students from their dollars.

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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. Do we often consider academic affairs as a pathway that we highlight to new professionals pursuing work in the field?

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

This blog has been compiled by Sam Elkington, Jill Dickinson, and Sinéad Murphy (SRHE Conferences and Events Manager.) Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. How do we effectively build in ideas of working with spatiality into our learning and teaching strategies?

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

Our report closed with a number of recommendations which you can find outlined in our July 20 th blog. Our report closed with a number of recommendations which you can find outlined in our July 20 th blog. We’ve heard that many institutions have used the summer to examine how they will integrate (or not) AI into their campuses.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Aren’t there ways to give many more undergraduates the advantages currently reserved for honors students?

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HEPI

DECEMBER 13, 2023

This blog was kindly authored by John Brennan, Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at the Open University and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath. This piece is the first part of two on the topic of flexible learning pathways. Higher education is changing. Higher education is changing. And so is the student experience.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I “Poohbae” connotes polyamory, which is another blog altogether. So many poohbahs! Big YES on this one!).

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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HEM (Higher Education Marketing)

APRIL 17, 2024

Source: Google John Cabot University is the top search engine reply page for “liberal arts university in Rome”. Reading Time: 11 minutes Today, universities seeking to improve awareness and boost enrollment face a unique challenge: how to stand out among many competitors and reach the right people online.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. Classically, the “liberal” arts were contrasted with the “servile” arts. The “servile” arts were about performing employment.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Earlier this week, I focused on how the pandemic altered how academics work. Now, let’s talk about how academics and universities are changing to prepare students for the workforce. I’m drawing from new research from Coursera. The modern workplace now requires new skills.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma U.S. The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. News ’ college rankings contain an unlikely category that you might not expect: “A-Plus Schools for B Students.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I live my life according to a series of mantras. The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. Priorities conflict.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Somewhere between mass culture and elite culture lies a murky, often maligned intermediate, middlebrow culture. The goal of middlebrow culture was to introduce unevenly educated adults to somewhat diluted versions of high culture in accessible, engaging and unthreatening ways.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma I’ve never really trusted my powers of prediction, but recent weeks have seriously eroded any confidence in my ability to forecast the future. Some recent prophecies have proven particularly wrongheaded. Wrong again. As one of the writers I follow, Noah Smith, writes: “the U.S I’m not sure.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Colleges pay tribute to diversity yet largely offer a cookie-cutter approach to education. Homogeneity and uniformity are generally the rule, not an education with distinguishing characteristics. Sure, there are exceptions. Columbia, Chicago, and St. Johns offer variations on a great books curriculum. In 2019, just 7.2

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 28, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma NPR just pulled the plug on its once stunningly popular Invisibilia podcast, which explored “the invisible forces that shape human behavior.” Historians sometimes describe the social sciences as theory rich but often data poor. They are cultural, demographic, economic, historical, and sociological.

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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. o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. It was an outline of the foundations of our enterprise and my goals for the university.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma The four-year graduation rate at the Cal State campuses reached a record high—33 percent—in 2021. A recent blog posting by Michael Feldstein, one of higher education’s most astute observers, asked a fascinating question: If you were designing Cal State today, what would you do differently?

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Nostalgia—the desire to turn back the clock and return to a seemingly superior past—can be healthy and even therapeutic, but it’s often a trap, a pathology and a temptation that must be resisted. In most cases, that imagined past turns out to be bogus. Nostalgia can be damaging.

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