MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

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. Standard two-day pre-college orientations aren’t sufficient for all students. College credit programs.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Optional excursions are available for a fee.

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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. We made that decision believing that our values were clear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Harvey Nevertheless, some of these alumni maintain various levels of contact with their alma maters – ranging from attending reunion events, to regularly reviewing materials they receive from the college or university, to making monetary donations they hope will help produce a more inclusive atmosphere for current and future generations.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma What is an honors college? A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history. Honors 1.0.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

He also led the school through seven of its largest freshman enrollment classes in Langston’s 126-year history. steps down at a time when Langston’s total enrollment has been steadily declining for the past decade, like other regional colleges in the state. Previous to that at Saint Paul College (Minn.)

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 8, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Image: Hamline University has been engrossed in an academic freedom debate this year over the actions of an adjunct instructor at the private Minnesota institution who was teaching global art history. Recent events have required us to look deeply into our values. In fact, they still can.” ” Other Points of View.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Colleges and universities don’t inhabit an ivory tower. Offer more community-serving events.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

Understand that all of those events are celebrated by those offices across ideology, race, and sexual orientation.” Given that most accrediting bodies require some form of DEI commitment and practice, including diverse hiring and recruitment, public colleges and universities in both states could potentially lose such accreditation.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

No one in his family had gone to college, much less earned an advanced degree. ” That lesson remained with him throughout his college years and as he went about building his professional career. Image: D’Angelo Taylor had a hard time imagining a career in higher education. he assumed his career options were limited.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. “Across many college campuses, sustainability took a back seat,” Nelson says.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

colleges and universities. institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St. In 1956, the college took in more than 300 refugees fleeing the Soviet invasion of Hungary.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Image: Ithaca College in New York has long been considered a safe and welcoming place for LGBTQ+ students, and its residence halls are no exception. Open Pages has quickly become a beloved resource and gathering spot for trans and nonbinary students on campus, hosting a slew of well-attended events, including a Jeopardy!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. This event is not seen as an isolated incident but as a model for potential future actions in other institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In its prime, middlebrow culture filled the gap between the avant-garde and kitsch, garish, overly sentimental and tasteless, schlock and between elite and pulp fiction, ivory tower, egghead academic writing and trash and art music and popular tunes and jingles. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Presidents of colleges and universities may have four stripes on their sleeves. 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. Doctoral robes in the U.S. typically have bell shaped sleeves with three velvet stripes.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history.

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UIA (University Innovation Alliance)

AUGUST 24, 2023

He shared some of his experiences on the boards of numerous colleges and educational nonprofits: "At the League for Innovation , we would bring the board members and trustees together and talk about how you build a great board relationship. I think you put together the picture that makes sense for you." I love that frame.

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WCET Frontiers

MARCH 16, 2023

Today we showcase Nicolet College’s Native American Art Course Redesign. Artist and Art Instructor Nate Wilson discusses the inspiration for the redesign, the partnership between course instructor, instructional design team, and an Elder from one of the Native American tribes in the area.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

Illinois Tech is also one of just 88 institutions named an American Talent Initiative ‘High-Flier’ by the Aspen Talent Institute and Bloomberg Philanthropies for ensuring college access and success. Moreover, Illinois Tech’s employment rate is 92% six months after graduation, even when 37% of its students receive Pell Grants.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Colleges realized the pre-pandemic visit just wouldn’t cut it anymore. I will keep the self promotion brief but for those of you who aren’t familiar with Echo Delta, we provide marketing services and enrollment consulting for smaller colleges and universities around the country. Mae Watters: I am. That’s a great question.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

in Counseling and Student Personnel Services (College Student Affairs Administration) from the University of Georgia. You can find these individuals at historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions, and liberal arts colleges. This is critical stuff.

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Echo Delta

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Our guests are college enrollment experts who managed to have successful enrollment numbers during a pandemic. Quick note for those of you who aren’t familiar with Echo Delta, we provide marketing services and enrollment consulting for smaller colleges and universities around the country. Their names are Sarah E.

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