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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

Aaron Basko This is a guest blog from Aaron Basko , vice president for enrollment management at Lynchburg Universit y. Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. The news has not been good. percent between 2015 and 2019.”

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Higher Education Reading List

Susquehanna President's Blog

Here it is: Newsletters and Magazines I start each weekday with a review of these three: Inside Higher Ed publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education. History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. New York: College Board, 1995.

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Lest We Forget

Susquehanna President's Blog

Some of these overreaches have been in response to faculty serving as expert witness in court cases in which their testimony was unfavorable to the state’s position; some are battles over ideology; some are acts of political theatre; and some are attempts to whitewash history. This includes the literature, music, and art we teach and study.

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We are Saved by Love

Susquehanna President's Blog

When most of you arrived at SU, none of us could have anticipated the tumultuous events of the past four years. 1] Written a century ago, it sounds as if Yeats is describing this moment in history. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith.

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Pomp and Circumstance

Susquehanna President's Blog

Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech. The same Seal is at the center of the ceremonial chain, or President’s Seal of Office, that I wear at all formal academic events.

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Indigenous Ways of Knowing, a Faculty’s Journey to Redesign Native American Art Online Course

WCET Frontiers

We will be doing so here on the Frontiers Blog and episodes on the Frontiers Podcast! As the only full-time art faculty at the college, much of this work fell to me, Nate Wilson, Fine Arts Instructor. This also provided some direction for what a newly made Native American Art course should be like.

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Back to Campus Visit (But Not Like Before) [Webinar]

Echo Delta

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?