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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. What is the real impact if a few small colleges close? The news has not been good.

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Building careers in the humanities

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

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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The Evolution of the Humanities

HEPI

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. The landscape for humanities is changing in many ways in order to meet the needs of the modern world.

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3 Questions About Georgetown University’s New Bachelor Completion Degree on Coursera

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Learning Innovation We are always eager to hear new ways universities are creating affordable online programs at scale. The program is incredibly competitively priced, at $400 a credit, and scales an on-campus program that serves diverse students. Kelly: Over the past 20 years, more than 36 million students in the U.S.

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The Next Iterations of Disruptive Innovation

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma. Just when colleges and universities began to feel that operations were returning to normal, new variants and mutations emerged to upset the apple cart. According to one analyst, the regional accreditor SACSCOC has given the greenlight to a hundred other campuses that graduate a quarter or less of their students.

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

WCET Frontiers

I feel so lucky to get the chance each year to learn about the meaningful, student-focused work being done by various institutions, organizations, and individuals in our community. We will be doing so here on the Frontiers Blog and episodes on the Frontiers Podcast!

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Ask yourself: Would the $20 million gift that Bloomberg Philanthropies gave to Princeton in 2021 to support the university’s first-generation and low-income students have a greater impact at Tougaloo College, an HBCU with a $10 million endowment? At least that might assist a more diverse student body.