Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26. 2022), 16-26.

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University Business

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Degrees and subsequent jobs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) have long been praised as lucrative and safe pathways for students looking to enroll at a college or university. However, there is one subset of this group that stands out in popularity and workforce prowess: computer and data science.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbus State Community College are collaborating to address societal challenges and help Columbus State students more quickly, easily, and affordably earn bachelor’s degrees at Ohio Wesleyan. The program is available to up to 25 full-time students each year for up to four consecutive Ohio Wesleyan semesters.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Bates has a proven track record as a higher education leader around Ohio, as well as in the private sector. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

higher ed institution. DePauw University DePauw’s Bold and Gold 2027 strategic plan seeks to bolster the university around four principles: the liberal arts and sciences; the student experience; institutional equity; and responsible financial and operational management. White said.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The University of Minnesota Morris is excited to share with potential students that they could potentially save $20,000 on tuition costs for a bachelor’s degree, which may appease a public and federal government pushing for a more affordable higher education. “Those are our students.

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University Business

JANUARY 16, 2024

State universities in West Virginia have an uphill struggle to resuscitate interest in higher education. Ravaged by a poor economy, declining population and an understated opiate crisis , it has the lowest bachelor’s degree level educated percentage of all 50 states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Earlham has an important and longstanding place within the distinctive liberal arts tradition in the United States. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Developmental math poses one of the biggest and most immutable challenges in higher education. Students sometimes may be underprepared, but we cannot resolve the issue by refusing to teach them until they make up for all their deficiencies. Unfortunately, that is exactly how developmental math is used in higher education.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education. For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

The conference attendees were a mix of students, faculty, donors, education administrators, and edtech professionals. Groups were assigned an activity to discuss possible solutions for increasing capacity for educational technology and digital learning. Higher education as a whole has recently been scrutinized for its value.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

million—and also increased their ranking on the National Science Foundation’s survey of Higher Education of Research and Development Expenditures (HERD) from 42 to 22. In just three years, he’s helped increase CSU’s external awards by 227%—it now totals $50.5 ” Steven Tepper – Hamilton College (N.Y.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Previously, she was dean of the College of Natural and Social Sciences at California State University, Los Angeles; interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts and founding director of the psychometrics graduate program at Morgan State University; faculty at Spelman; and senior research scientist for Kraft General Foods.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

laid off eight tenured and tenure-track faculty members and froze various programs last month, citing realignment of academics with changing student demands. I suspect this pattern of continuous review and adjustment will define all of higher education in this country going forward.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution. That’s according to the latest report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, a nonprofit studying data from a majority of postsecondary institutions in the U.S. In fall of 2023, 5.3% These increases are a good sign.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Ohio Wesleyan is a distinctive, forward-looking, and appreciably student-centered institution that transforms lives,” vandenBerg said. With initiatives like the OWU Connection, Ohio Wesleyan and its faculty are reimagining the liberal arts for the needs of a new world and a new generation of students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

identified as place-bound , according to the American Council on Education (ACE) Center for Policy Research and Strategy (Hillman, Nicholas, & Weichman, 2016). While online education has grown exponentially in the U.S., Most demographic and related higher education surveys do not include a box for place-bound students to check.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Natalie Galucia The study, Age as a Factor in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives in Higher Education , was conducted between February 2022 and January 2023 and published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Wor k. As people are living and working longer, the need for on-going education and training grows.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Four in five education professionals in the US say global engagement is part of the multi-year plan at the institution where they work, new research has identified. The company surveyed more than 250 US global education professionals in April 2023. Global engagement “encompasses diverse initiatives”, the report said.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

A Black and openly queer woman, Williams-Goliday serves as a guide of sorts, helping students navigate their identity and the world around them, and how they can continue to be authentic as they go about their studies and approach the workplace, she says. There, she worked with students academically underprepared for college, she says.

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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. UATX plans to maintain a small faculty and student body and a low student-to-faculty ratio.

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IHEP

JANUARY 7, 2022

For a wide array of reasons, students stop out from their higher education path each semester, and many never return. Colleges and universities recognize the importance—but also the challenge—of getting SCND students back on track and supporting them, along with currently enrolled students, across the degree finish line.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Come this August, students will be able to declare either a major or a minor in cannabis studies. That needs to be approached with all of the care in the world and a better understanding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2023

Fall transfer enrollment remains in decline in 2022, albeit at a slower rate than before, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The decline was also observed across institutions at all levels of selectiveness, the worst being for students transferring to highly selective institutions (-13.4%).

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

In higher education, presidential appointments can oftentimes be straightforward. increase and a 47% increase in new transfer students, according to the school website. increase and a 47% increase in new transfer students, according to the school website. However, a pair of presidents this time around are headscratchers.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Instead, in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, students seem to have shifted their view of what they should be studying—in a largely misguided effort to enhance their chances on the job market.” In the interest of transparency, I should confess that I would prefer a fully funded, free public system of higher education.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs. While the private online school is still in its embryonic stages since its founding in 2018, it aims to recruit over 100,000 students in the next few years, according to PIX 11.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Misalignment between courses, accumulation of excess credits and seemingly dead-end degree options have impeded momentum for students aspiring to transfer for too long. This 30-credit block of courses satisfies most, if not all, general education requirements and went into effect in fall 2014.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Image: After more than two years of declining enrollment numbers, fall 2022 finally brought refreshing news: freshman enrollment, which represented the most significant deficits throughout the pandemic, is up from the previous year, according to the latest data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. and 2 percent.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Start spreading the news. As Georgetown’s Center for Education and the Workforce says : “Majoring in business pays off. In most programs, business students’ median annual earnings two years after graduation are roughly 10 times their monthly debt payments.” ” Wait a second.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money , an American personal finance website that writes about mortgages, loans, credit, investing and more, revamped its list due to the changing needs of lower- and middle-class Americans looking for the best investment based on what they personally value amid higher education’s inflated price tag.

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