Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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Faculty Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts History 125

Liaison International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

NAGAP is thrilled to partner with Liaison on promoting GradCAS as a turnkey solution for graduate degrees in the arts and humanities, as well as the social and natural sciences,” said Keith Ramsdell , chair of external relations and partnerships and past president of NAGAP. WATERTOWN, Mass.,

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Empower Arts And Sciences Professional Development Technology 75

University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. Many political science majors do become policymakers—and the degree is a well-trodden stepping stone to law school.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

“What is worth more,” asked one of the young militants, “art or life? Art or life? For arguably the activists in London were attacking not the painting, but the institution housing it: the National Gallery, with all the official sanction that name suggests. Both, please.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty. But if we turn the question around and ask what novels, in this case science fiction, can tell us about artificial intelligence, the answers are far more weighty.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

This groundbreaking interface, says author Shahzad Bashir, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Humanities at Brown, “performs, rather than simply states, the book’s argument—namely, that we see pasts and futures as fields of unlimited possibility that come alive through a combination of close observation and ethical positioning.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Though college information technology offices have long worked behind the scenes to bolster institutional defenses, their countermeasure efforts, such as installing network threat detection and risk-mitigation systems, are often invisible. 1 risk” to Notre Dame, the institution’s Board of Trustees told Grundy.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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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

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. Jackson said her mother was more inclined to the language arts. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. Postal Service in Washington, D.C.,

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?

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Liberal Arts Education Arts And Sciences History 73

Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

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. Similar to our roads and bridges, the pathways between our colleges and universities have often been marked with potholes, roadblocks and lane closures.

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Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Community College Humanities 65

Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. As we have become more diverse and reflective of our state, we have also become better as an institution.” But is it really?

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Inclusivity Arts And Sciences Equity Scholarship 97

University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Several of them are also coming in as either the first woman or the first of their race or ethnicity to lead their school. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

” The result: To discourage students from learning and thinking “critically about the connection between the design of our institutions and the uneven way in which opportunity and resources are meted out in America.” Case in point: Healthcare. Black babies die at twice the rate of white babies. Why is this the case?

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Higher Education Education Arts And Sciences History 75

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth.

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Arts And Sciences Humanities Degree Engineering 81

Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. is a collective failure perpetuated by our focus on institution-level changes,” wrote authors J. population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Faculty Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Achievement 124

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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Arts And Sciences Engineering Computer Science Professional Development 98

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” At William & Mary, an institution currently in its 330th year, we have a saying: “We change to preserve what we value most.” The concept of expanding the university’s offerings in computing, data science and applied science, detailed in a November 3 article , is not a new one.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. I still vividly recall C. This turned into an ongoing debate.

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University Arts And Sciences Academia Scholarship 71

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

When the novel’s narrator asks whether he will be the hero of his own life, he is in fact grappling with an issue, human and historical agency, that has become central to academic scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. Few words carry as much interpretive weight as “agency.”

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. A data science pathway as an alternative to the standard Algebra II, precalculus and calculus sequence. At stake are hot-button issues involving equity, privilege, socioeconomic class and gender, ethnicity and race.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Many institutions have in-house practices that deviate from these standards. Bachelor’s hoods are no longer the norm, but many institutions, including Susquehanna still use them. Part of commencement at many institutions involves the “hooding” of graduate-degree candidates. . There are different robes for each degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

“Trust and institutional culture are broken,” the first of the five points said. “The hollowing out of administrative and professional staff, and the dismissal and erasure of colleagues, institutional experience and real community, have created a culture of fear and distrust and are harming the college.”

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University Business

AUGUST 11, 2023

The momentum of late July’s multiple president resignations across some of the nation’s most well-known institutions seems to have continued into August. She served as White House deputy chief of staff under President Bill Clinton and the secretary of health and human services under Barack Obama’s administration.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If a moral education strikes most faculty as inappropriate at liberal, secular institutions, are there pedagogies that we might use but don’t, to test student knowledge at a deep level or prompt their intellectual, social and moral growth? The catch: this can’t be done—at least not without cheating or bending the rules.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

” Variations of that classic line can be found in the Marx Brothers’ nihilistic comedy Duck Soup , a 1948 column by the syndicated advice giver Dorothy Dix and more recently by Richard Pryor and Cher. Much of what people claim to know rests on trust and deference. On many issues, our identity determines our personal truth.

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Arts And Sciences Degree Humanities Law School 86

The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Restructuring Higher Education for Today’s Demographic Traditional higher education structures were designed for a different demographic, and they often hinder institutions from adapting to the needs of today’s students. Innovation Beyond Ideas Innovation isn’t confined to brainstorming sessions and novel concepts.

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Higher Education Education Arts And Sciences Faculty 64

Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

The two pieces, one by David French, the political commentator and New York Times opinion columnist, and another by Brookings Institution fellows Emily Markovich Morris and Ghulam Omar Qargha, argue that without a well-defined sense of purpose, individuals and institutions inevitably lose their way.

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University Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Schooling 63

The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2023

President turnover is a major problem for higher ed leadership, with the average tenure of leaders serving in this capacity at one institution declining sharply from 10 years to a shocking 3.7 Drumm McNaughton Discover the impact of president turnover on higher ed leadership. Explore causes, DEI, governance issues, and retention solutions.

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Leadership Higher Education University President Arts And Sciences 52

The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This contraction is not a mere ebb and flow but a clarion call for a fundamental change in how these institutions operate. For universities that don’t have the cushion of the Ivy League list, the stark reality of declining enrollment and soaring costs looms large. Cutting costs, a go-to strategy in lean times, has reached its limits.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In this inspiring discussion, Dr. Drumm McNaughton is joined by Dr. Cynthia Teniente-Matson, President of San José State University, who shares her insights on leveraging the power of public-private partnerships to elevate the institution’s role in education, innovation, and community engagement.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Their conclusions were indeed highly critical: Financial and institutional considerations too often resulted in a bland, insipid and wishy-washy portraits of the past. In the years since Leon and Rosenzweig’s volume was published, history museums and historic sites have undergone a reckoning of, yes, historic proportions.

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History Arts And Sciences Humanities Technology 78

Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. A lure for high-achieving, exceptionally motivated applicants who might otherwise attend a private institution, and a magnet for donor dollars.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

**Editors note: A previous version of this post included a section with references to a news release and two news articles, on the University System of New Hampshire and a previously proposed plan to combine with additional institutions. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut.

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