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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

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Aaron Basko This is a guest blog from Aaron Basko , vice president for enrollment management at Lynchburg Universit y. 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. Those are the ones I can think of right away.”

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3 Questions for Sue Lorenson, Vice Dean for Undergraduate Education at Georgetown

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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. A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Focus on the Future.

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Career Services

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. What I haven’t seen, but would love to, is sustained interaction between career services offices and academic departments in liberal arts fields. What they don’t know is that the skills developed in liberal arts classes can make the difference.

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When Role Models Don’t

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last weekend we drove to UMD to visit The Girl and catch a basketball game. Wise and worldly readers who teach in liberal arts fields, how do you handle conversations like these with students like these?

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Auburn professor awarded $646k in damages in speech case

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An Alabama jury awarded Michael Stern $645,837 in damages, finding after a two-week trial that Stern’s former dean illegally punished him for speaking out. Around this time, Stern’s new dean allegedly opposed his tenure bid, as did the provost, contradicting the positive recommendation of his department.

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Different Paths to Student Success

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean A number of terrific tidbits have come in over the last week or so, most of which are directly relevant to student success. That can certainly be true, but Morgan State has found that liberal arts degrees can hold real appeal, too.