The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 23, 2023

23 May · Episode 156 Preserving Democracy: The Vital Role of Liberal Arts in Higher Education 29 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Drumm McNaughton talks with Jeff Scheuer about the role of liberal arts in higher education and their value to the American identity and democracy.

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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. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums? New tools.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2023

This blog has been kindly written fro HEPI by Professor Marion Thain, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Culture and Technology at King’s College London. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change. However that doesn’t mean humanities disciplines don’t have to change.

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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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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

APRIL 29, 2024

Despite declining higher education enrollment rates beginning in 2010, undergraduate degrees in engineering and computer science are continuing to see substantial growth most likely due to the high lifetime wage earnings they promise, according to a new study published by Sage Journals. ” Researchers analyzed survey data from 5.8

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities.”

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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). He then goes on to recite statistics about hundreds of program closures in the humanities right across the United States over the past decade.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That the humanities are in crisis will surprise exactly no one. Since the Great Recession of 2008, but especially after 2012, the share of majors in the humanities has continued to decrease precipitously among American college-goers. What’s behind this decline? No complex problem has a monocausal explanation.

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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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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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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Student eligibility requirements include earning 60 semester credit hours – 42 university core credit hours and 18 credit hours related to their intended baccalaureate degree – at least 30 of which were earned at WTAMU; achievement of a minimum 2.0 We want our students to complete a bachelor’s degree. Wendler in a statement.

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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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University Business

APRIL 15, 2024

Elon University, a private university based in the liberal arts in North Carolina, recently announced that it’s promising that 90% of its students will reach a foundational level of “data competency” by the time they graduate.

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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

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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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

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

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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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

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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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

The State of Globalization in Higher Education report from technology provider, Terra Dotta, also found that 71% of respondents said that the strategic priority of global engagement is needed to expand the total student experience. Improving student experience was the most common reason mentioned, with 71% of those respondents saying so.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

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. Phillips will be responsible for revamping Chatham’s academic program catalog specifically in health sciences and liberal arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

At Delaware State, students pursuing women's and gender studies are examining the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. At Delaware State, students pursuing women's and gender studies are examining the intersection of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. “At

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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

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: For students in Sarah Blackwood’s How to Read Moby-Dick class at Pace University, learning about Herman Melville’s work isn’t confined to lectures, essays or classroom discussions. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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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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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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The PIE News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

On the conference’s Student Mobility and Partnerships panel, Humber College ’s associate dean of global partnerships and education, Rebecca Fitzgerald, said that discussing each other’s strategic priorities is a vital building block. “I I have monthly meetings with all of our partners and so we’re able to check in.

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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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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

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. Columbia’s core is anything but perfect: it remains much too Eurocentric and fails to engage sufficiently with the social sciences or the pressing issues of the present. Nostalgia can be damaging.

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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. Nathan Matias, assistant professor of communication and information science at Cornell University; Neil A. population in terms of race by 2050. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. Understanding that one’s success is related to one’s own free will more readily allow students to embrace trials, persist when faced with obstacles, and exert effort when challenged (Dweck, 2008).

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Now, nearly 15 years later, the idea has fresh momentum.

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