University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Prior to that, he served as the president of Wilmington College (Ohio) and the founding associate dean of health sciences at Heidelberg University. He began as the director of the institution’s stock portfolio, transitioning four years later to the vice president for advancement. William Pieczynski – Nichols College (Mass.)

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2024

He would go on to earn three associate degrees in general studies, liberal arts, and biology. These degrees allowed Njumbe the opportunity to transfer to a four-year institution to study for his bachelor’s degree, said Dr. Jack Bloom, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at IU and one of Njumbe’s instructors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Doing that at a prestigious Research 1 institution was too important to pass up. Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation Sue Lorenson , vice dean for undergraduate education at Georgetown’s College of Arts and Sciences, is a close colleague and good friend of Eddie’s. Q: What is keeping you and your peers at other institutions up at night? Sue graciously agreed to answer our questions. Q: Your Ph.D.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

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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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

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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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Education leaders ready to leap into the next generation of education that fully embraces digital modalities aren’t waiting around for our current institutions to get it together. Instead, they’re building their own schools that they see better fall in line with 21st-century students and match their needs.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Additionally, half of the six presidents to be hired or retired hail from an institution with strong religious ties. While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

is a collective failure perpetuated by our focus on institution-level changes,” wrote authors J. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. Across 1,250 institutions, the percentage of underrepresented tenure-line faculty members increased by 0.23

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. With level-headedness, Clarence D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others.

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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

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. which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887.

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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. He is co-editor of The Christian College Phenomenon: Inside America’s Fastest Growing Institutions of Higher Learning (2011). “On Feb.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Typically, proprietary institutions, like barber colleges and beauty schools, that serve very few students. Typically, proprietary institutions, like barber colleges and beauty schools, that serve very few students. Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. I’m not referring to the Beta, Delta, or Omicron BA 1, BA4, and B5 COVID strains.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Participants don’t have to use their vacation days anymore.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

I laughed at the time, but I’ve since come to realize that, according to the last statistics I could find, over 20 percent of students at public four-year institutions take seven or more years to graduate or drop out. You’ve heard the arguments before, I suspect: “ College Doesn’t Need to Take Four Years.”

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image: Tabitha Edson always knew she wanted to work in health sciences. She earned a nursing assistant certification in high school but decided not to pursue the field at Westminster College, a small private institution in Salt Lake City; she worried that it would limit her job opportunities when she graduated.

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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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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. Craft also helped establish a diversity office and oversaw the creation or revitalization of the college’s teaching, learning and recreational facilities, as well as centers for integrated science and student success.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

in educational leadership from the University of New England that he earned after getting a bachelor’s degree in political science and government and a master’s degree from Western Illinois University. He now has a Ph.D. He’s excited about what he can accomplish at Belmont.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions on two cases that would implicate the fate of race-conscious admissions at public and private institutions’ undergraduate levels finally came out last week. Its decisions to rule against affirmative action have struck a nerve with higher education leaders.

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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. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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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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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Image: Tensions escalated last week between the University of California system and the New School and their respective striking academic workers. The New School also floated the idea of hiring replacement graders for the fall term and said it was doing “contingency planning” for the spring. Then, later in the week, came compromise.

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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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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The work group joins us today to discuss the ways higher education institutions are responding to the shifts in enrollment. Enjoy the read, Lindsey Downs, WCET While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the trend, declining enrollments have been negatively impacting institutional budgets for nearly a decade.

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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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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.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Alongside these trends, racial demographics in higher education are also changing, presenting new challenges and opportunities for institutions. Drumm McNaughton Dive into the complexities of higher education enrollment–navigate through its current challenges, and uncover strategies for the tough times ahead.

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