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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

Humanities departments in the US may need to shift their focus so international students can find better post-study work and garner a “wider variety” of international enrolments, stakeholders have suggested. Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work.

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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

Bolstered by state and national workforce needs and their promising return on investment, the STEM track represents a gold mine for colleges and universities that want to ensure credentials from their institution are providing students with good job prospects and gainful employment.

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Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education?

University Business

Amid the rapid digitalization of the workplace, climate change, an incendiary political landscape and the growing call for student diversity, President Patton believes that to answer the call, higher education’s new function must be to instill courage in all stakeholders involved. Tucked away in the small rural town of Middlebury, Vt.,

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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

For example, what difference does a population of 1,500 students at one institution make in the grand scheme of higher ed? Those students can always go to a larger institution. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia.

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An impossible task points to value of liberal arts (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

’” 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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Liberal Arts and Servile Arts

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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The role of the liberal arts in an era of skills-based hiring

Inside Higher Ed

“I’m not hearing this morning about a migration away from the liberal arts, or the death of the liberal arts,” Daniel Lugo, president of Queens University of Charlotte and the session’s moderator, said to the three female executives on the stage with him.