Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At Agnes Scott College, first-year students are given the opportunity to take their first step into becoming global citizens through its Global Journeys program. Gundolf Graml, associate VP for academic affairs, dean for curriculum and strategic initiatives, and professor of German. Over 40% are Pell Grant-eligible.

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The Higher Ed Marketer

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The liberal arts education has evolved. Students not only need skills developed from classic education subjects for career readiness but also to be able to continuously adjust as the world around them changes. How to market to high school students and parents who are often focused on job readiness .

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 5, 2023

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. Q: Your Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about. —

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University Business

MAY 14, 2024

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2023

George Timmons will become president of Holyoke Community College, pending approval of the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, MassLive reported. Dr. George Timmons Timmons is currently provost and senior vice president of academic and student affairs at Columbia-Greene Community College (CGCC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 15, 2023

Scott-Johnson will become provost and vice president for academic affairs at Spelman College, effective Aug. I look forward to guiding additional pathways for advancing faculty, at all levels, and delivering innovation in student success from retention to graduation. Dr. Pamela E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski has been named the 21st president of Earlham College and Earlham School of Religion. 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.

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Insight Into Diversity

JULY 19, 2023

Rhodes College has received an $800,000 grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation to create a new program that will focus on researching and developing curricula related to racial equity, discrimination, and justice in Memphis and the Mid-South region.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Interventions to improve student success rates such as corequisite designs, curriculum alignment with high school math and increased support services provide certain levels of improvement but do not address the underlying issue: the student-deficiency mentality common among higher education practitioners. And the list goes on.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2024

Two presidents have been hired at small private colleges in the past two weeks and one leader is choosing to retire after four decades in higher education. Hired Trevor Bates – Mercy College of Ohio Trevor Bates Mercy College of Ohio has announced Trevor Bates as its next president.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges.

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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. Dr. DB Poli This will make Roanoke College the first college in Virginia to offer a four-year degree in the field of cannabis studies, according to the school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This fall semester, Massasoit Community College achieved a new first. It became the first two-year school in the state of Massachusetts to allow students to attain degrees in Black Studies. Massasoit Community College is officially offering a Black Studies curriculum. Census Bureau.

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Summer isn’t what it used to be for higher education institutions and their students. Today, colleges and universities everywhere increasingly embrace the concept of a holistic year , and summer sessions have become an essential component of both standard and alternative educational pathways. College credit programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Link Previously, Link has been president of Allegheny College, dean of Temple University Rome, vice provost at Barnard College of Columbia University, and director of scholar programs at New York University. “I

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

What are the top 10 most regretted college majors? What may just as noteworthy as what’s on that list is that nearly half of all current job seekers regret their choice of college major, a new ZipRecruiter survey says. The survey asked graduates whether they would choose the same major if they could do college all over again.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

These colleges may all be well over a hundred years old, but there is still a first time for everything: Mount Holyoke (Mass.), Norbert College (Wis.) The number of full-time enrolled undergraduate students for Mount Holyoke, Mount Union and St. Norbert College all fall somewhere around 2,000. Mount Union (Ohio), St.

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University Business

APRIL 30, 2024

Colby College in Maine has promised the Class of 2029 that middle-class students who enroll will find their private liberal arts degree more affordable than many in-state public institutions. ” Greene’s comments shed light on a more significant issue across higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Image: Fully supporting students means explicitly teaching them critical thinking, Louis E. Newman argues in Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group). Newman, whose book will be published March 7, is former dean of academic advising at Stanford University and John M.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Image: Faculty members at the College of William & Mary are concerned that the institution is purposely excluding them from conversations about the future. Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school.

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Liaison International

APRIL 5, 2023

In the rolling hills of Amherst, Massachusetts, Hampshire College offers students a unique and unconventional liberal arts education. Founded in 1965 with a strong focus on diversity, students are encouraged to create their own academic paths through self-designed programs and innovative study. And it worked.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Olaf College also rank highly due to their exceptional graduation rates and grant rewards. As a result, 736 colleges were considered.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis has appointed six new board members to the New College of Florida, a step towards turning the school into a more conservative institution, the Herald-Tribune reported. "It said in a statement, referring to conservative Hillsdale College. "It said in a statement, referring to conservative Hillsdale College.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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. When she saw the improvements in success rates, the President of the college, Brenda Kays, reported that “it took my breath away.”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

MARCH 15, 2023

News & World Report released its first list of annual college rankings in 1983. Since then, prospective students (and their parents) have used the rankings as a guide for where to consider going to school. News in the hopes of generating more interest from prospective students. Critics of the U.S. The problem? Value of U.S.

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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. So have the changing attitudes toward higher education. It has been, well, an interesting time to be in higher education.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Aside from his steady hand as interim president, Rhodes is well known for his successful stint as the chancellor of the Austin Community College District (ACC), which grew to 11 campuses and experienced a 168% uptick in the number of degrees earned by students under his leadership, according to the university system.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Image: Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y., 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.” Geisler last summer.

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University Business

APRIL 28, 2023

School leaders are appointed to lead an institution for their quantifiably successful work, like Ron Patterson at Chadron State College. North Idaho College is stuck paying two presidents although neither technically holds the position. Chadron State College’s Board of Trustees has appointed Ron Patterson at a momentous time.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

vandenBerg is currently president of Presbyterian College. Ohio Wesleyan is a distinctive, forward-looking, and appreciably student-centered institution that transforms lives,” vandenBerg said. vandenBerg holds an Ed.D. with a political science major and Spanish minor from Alma.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Image: Gustavus Adolphus College went 161 years without any graduate programs. Like other small private institutions, Gustavus Adolphus, a Lutheran college in southern Minnesota, faces a shrinking pool of traditional-age students, even ahead of the projected decline in college-age students due to kick in later this decade.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Milo Riverso, for example, has leveraged his esteemed background in construction and engineering to win over Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees. Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

Columbia University's decision to act against pro-Palestine student demonstrators who had been occupying its South Lawn, culminated in suspensions and subsequent arrests of more than 108 protesters in the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” and a harsh rebuke from scholars from across the world. “The

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

24 event involved a student group hosting two far-right figures — one connected to extremist group Proud Boys, — for a “comedy” event. More than 400 professors and lecturers questioned new President Dr. Neeli Bendapudi’s commitment to racial justice in a letter. Faculty also led a protest last week. And in a Nov.

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University Business

JANUARY 10, 2023

President Meredith Woo has spearheaded Sweet Briar College’s triumphant revival over the past several years, and now she is making way for the institution’s next leader. Meredith Woo (Sweet Briar College). Sweet Briar College has already been comprehensively restructured under Woo’s leadership.

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