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 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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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. One campaign he oversaw helped draw in $66 million, the largest in school history, Telegram & Gazette reports. The throughline of Bates’ career is his passion for healthcare.

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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. The college says it froze undergraduate majors with “very low student enrollment.” Current students in affected programs will be allowed to finish their studies.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

For COVID-19, my colleagues and I worked hard to address the needs of our students. We moved many graduate programs online to meet the needs of our students who are largely juggling families and jobs. On this last day of 2023, I am reflecting on my 11 years at WCSU. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education.

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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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HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). So, for instance, the shuttering of nine degree offerings at Marymount turns out on closer inspection to affect about 75 students, or about 2% of the institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. there were protests on campus.

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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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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. Our jobs necessarily demand that we’re triangulating between students, professors and others (parents, support offices, health providers, etc.)

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 23, 2022

In most programs, business students’ median annual earnings two years after graduation are roughly 10 times their monthly debt payments.” Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? To ensure that all students acquired transferable soft skills? ” Wait a second.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

However, if we adopt a more restrictive definition of the humanities, only 4 percent of college graduates in 2020 majored in traditional humanistic fields, including English, history, philosophy and foreign languages and literature. What’s behind this decline? It is simply a matter of supply and demand.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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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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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

News ’ college rankings contain an unlikely category that you might not expect: “A-Plus Schools for B Students.” ” These are the less selective colleges and universities that serve those students with less than stellar College Board scores and nonstratospheric transcripts. Or does the solution lie elsewhere?

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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. Aren’t there ways to give many more undergraduates the advantages currently reserved for honors students?

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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. Governor Gretchen Whitmer famously ran on a campaign promise to “fix the damn roads,” and today, orange barrels are sprouting seemingly everywhere in response.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. The instructor had warned students in advance of her plan to show the image. This is one of those times.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Our students have changed, but our institutions have not adapted sufficiently to this reality. Non-traditional students now make up a majority of undergraduates. Non-traditional students now make up a majority of undergraduates. We need to serve these students better. Wrong again. I’m not sure.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Work colleges like Berea and Paul Quinn require all students to perform campus jobs to defray part of their education’s cost. Because it makes it easier for students to transfer credits. He and his colleagues created and scaled a first-semester student success seminar focused on the discussion-based study of transformative texts.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

John Karl Scholz (Photo: UO Website) With experience as a professor, economist and provost (which he currently still serves at the University of Wisconsin-Madison), his focus at Oregon will be student career readiness and postgraduate success. Other notable mentions: Dr. She is also a first-generation student.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

In our first post, the WCET Steering Committee work group focusing on this area reviewed historical enrollment trends, changes in student markets, and what may be coming in the future. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut. Thank you to our authors today for sharing on this important topic.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

In our first post, the WCET Steering Committee work group focusing on this area reviewed historical enrollment trends, changes in student markets, and what may be coming in the future. However, social sciences and natural sciences are not exempt from being cut. Thank you to our authors today for sharing on this important topic.

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Serving a nearly 1,000 student body, her focus as president of SVY will be on fundraising and investment opportunities, Deseret News reports. But those who decided to step down are doing so on sound footing.

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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. ” said Rasmussen. “They

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5 population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

The allure of the novel, the newfangled, the groundbreaking and the state-of-the-art can also lead us down a primrose path. Here, I’d like to discuss the history of general education: its rise, fall, current status and need to be radically rethought and reimagined. In most cases, that imagined past turns out to be bogus.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. The two institutions shared both history and a deep connection to the Worcester community.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., “There’s an itinerary put together for the week, for employees to see some of the special places that our students experience on study abroad, or they are welcome to use the palazzo as a home base and explore their own interests.

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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 said that the concern was that I was ‘indoctrinating students.’ “On Feb. We stepped back into the classroom.

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