University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds. Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year.

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I look forward to seeing how the cutting-edge scholarship coming out of the center will make a real difference in the lives of individuals, communities and populations,” said Pamela Jeffries, dean of the School of Nursing, in a statement.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business.

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The PIE News

APRIL 3, 2024

“Apart from Ireland being an English-speaking country and in the EU, the government of Ireland’s GOIS Scholarships, economical fee/ visa process also appeal to many students,” its director Osamah Qureshi told The PIE. “The major issue with Ireland is its brand awareness among students. .

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

INSIGHT Into Diversity 2023 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award winners are recognized for their exemplary and innovative initiatives designed to recruit and retain underrepresented individuals in science, technology, engineering, and math. Read about them here. MS in Business Analytics – STEM-designated Adelphi University Robert B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

Leonard Taylor Taylor, currently an associate professor and program coordinator in Auburn University’s College of Education, will also become an associate professor in the school’s Higher Education and Student Affairs program. in communication arts, communication science, and rhetoric also from UW-M. Taylor holds a Ph.D.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. John’s College in Maryland. And so we are building anew. Summers and playwright David Mamet.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Olaf College also rank highly due to their exceptional graduation rates and grant rewards. As a result, 736 colleges were considered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But institutions need to start preparing now for a range of possible outcomes, said Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel, a consultancy that works with schools on issues of diversity. Could a decision impact eligibility for scholarships? The Supreme Court’s decisions in SFFA v. Harvard and SFFA v.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years. Washington and California showed up again for its low-income students, graduating them at rates at or above 57%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. He holds a B.A.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

in a way that could also describe many women’s colleges across the country. “In fact, we are something of a unicorn, being still primarily a women’s college,” she said. Trinity’s College of Arts & Sciences, the institution’s largest program, remains all women.) and Canada.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As researchers, practitioners, and healthcare workers reflect on the events of the last two and a half years, programs related to public health have become a priority at many colleges and universities. In response, colleges and universities are seeing increased interest in courses and programs that address issues of public health.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: The Whittier College Board of Trustees was scheduled for a rare in-person meeting this Friday, after conducting most business virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, with her address looming, Oubré and her critics have radically different views of what the state of the college is.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

Still, out of the many unforgettable characters I’ve had the enormous privilege of interacting with, one who stands out was the late Peter Marzio, who directed the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for nearly thirty years. Unlike many museum directors, he wasn’t an art historian. Raised largely by his grandfather P.B.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

In STEM areas, health sciences professions and business disciplines, demand for new Ph.D.s But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. is clearly growing. percent between 2011 and 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“The main way that we can help prepare athletes for college is to [make them] really good gymnasts, which means they are focused, and they understand hard work — all of the things that help them become good students,” says former rhythmic gymnast Wendy Hilliard, who established the Wendy Hilliard Gymnastics Foundation (WHGF) in 1996.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Most college leaders retiring in style will be recognized for their expansion, renovation and construction of campus facilities. She also served on the Board of Trustees for BYU, BYU-Idaho, BYU-Hawaii and Ensign College in that role. Frank Sánchez – Manhattanville College (N.Y.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

The six judges in favor of eliminating affirmative action argued that considering race in college admissions is unconstitutional because it violates the equal protection clause of the 14 th Amendment. Its decisions to rule against affirmative action have struck a nerve with higher education leaders.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass.,

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University Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I mean English majors, Biology majors, Math majors, Computer Science, we have people from everywhere,” he explains. An esports program was something he immediately wanted to embark on since taking a role in the school of visual media arts, alongside s tarting a degree program in game design and interactive media at UM.

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HEPI

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Publishing its Second Report in July 2012, the Lords’ Science and Technology Committee said it had ‘received substantial written evidence on the recent HE reforms’. This post was kindly authored for HEPI by Gill Evans, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Still University of Health Sciences (ATSU ) has expanded efforts to advance the recruitment and retention of diverse students and employees. Still University of Health Sciences (ATSU ) has expanded efforts to advance the recruitment and retention of diverse students and employees. View the full list of 2023 recipients here.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Colleges are under growing pressure to prove their value to students, parents, legislators and others. Itzkowitz: Over the past year, we’ve seen an uptick in students and families wanting to know what type of return on investment they’re going to get from the college education. We have data from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 29, 2023

Ironically, it’s the essay’s major source of satire—the primacy of criticism over the art that it interprets and evaluates—that has, to a surprising extent, been realized. It should be read not only by the English professoriate, but by its counterparts in art and music history, history and philosophy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

What can the arts do to heal and help us see a better future?” As an undergraduate at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, Lee was a computer science major. Theater is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses art, literature, history, design and more, Lee notes. Theater is a communal experience.

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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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The PIE News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Brexit would undermine the UK’s position as a global leader in science, arts and innovation, the higher education leaders foresaw. ” In 2017, King’s College London suggested its research partnership already in place with Technische Universität Dresden in Germany, known as transCampus, could see it create a European campus.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. “This has been a process that did not come with transparency, forthrightness and clear and steady communication.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Despite this, 53% of student respondents at our two-year college have indicated they would be interested in research opportunities and identified far more benefits than barriers.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Drexel University Drexel University LeBow College of Business Build Relationships in Diverse Group Experiences (BRIDGE) is an academic enrichment program designed to support underrepresented students at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. Studies indicate that a majority of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects. This includes a new state-of-the-art science center with a planetarium, which is now a signature piece of the campus. It has been part of my focus to really engage our students in civic and community work.”

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