Academe Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

BY HANK REICHMAN A bit over two years ago I posted to this blog a piece about a decision by Russia’s Prosecutor General to designate New York’s Bard College as an “undesirable organization.” Petersburg State University, offering a program of open enrollment liberal arts courses for students…

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University Business

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A pair of Michigan liberal arts college made the top-10 ranking of similar colleges located in the Midwest, according to the Wall Street Journal and College Pulse. There are similar rankings of liberal arts colleges for each region in the United States. Albion College ranked No.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

’” As a chemistry professor at a small liberal arts college, I was immediately intrigued and eagerly climbed into this rabbit hole, because in my courses on general chemistry, there are many concepts that would never occur to my students, even after several lectures and homework assignments.

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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. Over 60% of our students are students of color. Many of our students are first-generation students. Over 40% are Pell Grant-eligible.

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Higher Ed Dive

MARCH 10, 2023

Hampshire College has promised matching tuition for these students, who say Gov. Ron DeSantis has marred their liberal arts experience.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2023

By Amita Chatterjee Facing enrollment declines, Beloit College, in Wisconsin, is hoping to win over prospective students by drawing connections between their education and desired careers.

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University Business

APRIL 4, 2023

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The post College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs appeared first on University Business.

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The PIE News

JANUARY 4, 2024

A liberal arts and sciences college from New York has pledged to support 425 refugee and displaced students in the next four years as the UN seeks to reach its 15by30 target. The College is also representing OSUN in co-leading the UNHCR’s 15by30 Multistakeholder Pledge.

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Campus Technology

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The University of Minnesota (UMN)'s College of Liberal Arts (CLA) has announced a partnership with Helios Consulting to offer graduates a chance to gain human resource technology skills through paid employment and training in its Rise Program, an apprenticeship designed to prepare students for a career in the Workday ecosystem.

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Higher Ed Dive

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The small liberal arts institution will need to overcome long-term underfunding challenges to reach 1,200 students by 2028, President Richard Corcoran said.

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University Business

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology. Those with liberal arts degrees took umbrage. The key is to paint a sharper picture of the enormous benefits that liberal arts actually deliver.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26.

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University Business

APRIL 3, 2024

Antioch College President Jane Fernandes was elated when she discovered her college would be formally designated as a Federal Work College by the Department of Education. A high proportion of the students are first-generation and Pell Grant eligible. Among them are: Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes (Ky.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

An anonymous donor has gifted Livingstone College $1 million, which will be used to support the campus residence hall refurbishment project. Livingstone College The gift is the fourth consecutive donation at the $1 million level to the college from an anonymous donor.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

When conservative leaders took over Florida’s only public liberal arts institution, Hampshire College officials knew they had to help. Now they’re welcoming the first cohort of New College defectors. AMHERST, Mass., My girlfriend’s mom set me up with a snow jacket.

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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

MARCH 28, 2024

The race is on for schools to acquire students from Birmingham-Southern College after the small liberal arts school announced Tuesday it will close May 31. Meanwhile, Spring Hill College in Mobile is attempting to entice prospective transfers with $5,000 scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 18, 2024

Ohio Wesleyan University and Columbus State Community College are collaborating to address societal challenges and help Columbus State students more quickly, easily, and affordably earn bachelor’s degrees at Ohio Wesleyan. and is in good academic standing with no disciplinary violations.

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Higher Ed Data Stories

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It shows the undergraduate college of people who received doctorates in 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022. So use the controls at top to find colleges by region, by religious affiliation, or by broad Carnegie type. So use the controls at top to find colleges by region, by religious affiliation, or by broad Carnegie type.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. The nonbinding vote came after a recent debate between students and Wellesley’s administration – the latter has resisted such a change. Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 10, 2024

Birmingham-Southern College (BSC) leaders are working to assist in transferring students affected by the institution’s recently announced closure, which takes place on May 31. BSC is a 168-year-old private liberal arts college, enrolling around 1,300 students from 34 states and nine countries.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

New College of Florida students, parents, faculty and alumni are launching an online education platform aimed at preserving the spirit of the university, a public liberal arts college previously known for its flexible academic pathways and intellectual rigor.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Magdalen College of the Liberal Arts, a small Catholic institution in New Hampshire, will close at the end of the academic year due to low enrollment and financial challenges, WMUR 9 reported. The local ABC affiliate reported that Magdalen currently enrolls about 60 students.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Although community college may be regularly associated as an equitable pathway to bachelor’s degrees, wealthier students typically capitalize on the opportunity. As for low-income students, a new report from the Department of Education details how infrequently their college hopes pan out.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Student support programs are increasingly filling up college and university “To-Do” lists to ensure undergraduates are in the best position to thrive during their studies. However, colleges aren’t doing enough to ensure students are able to transition out of a life solely focused on class and getting good grades.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Dropout rates are up and student retention is down at New College of Florida amid a conservative overhaul driven by Governor Ron DeSantis, who tasked a swath of new trustees appointed in January with remaking the state’s only public liberal arts institution.

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University Business

APRIL 29, 2024

Researchers believe this study could help higher education stakeholders and policymakers reevaluate their frameworks on financial aid to assist students entering necessary yet low-wage occupations (like education and social work) with their college costs, thus helping cultivate stronger enrollment rates.

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Campus Sonar

JANUARY 24, 2024

Our 2024 kicked off with a trip to sunny Florida for the Council of Independent Colleges Presidents Institute. Although the focus was on independent colleges, the issues and trends affect every institution in some form. Add in research by listening to the views of your students and prospects.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Danielle Ren Holley, president-elect of Mount Holyoke College. The Howard University law professor and dean has been named Mount Holyoke College’s first permanent Black female president in the institution’s 186-year history. Mount Holyoke was founded to challenge the idea that women did not need a liberal arts education,” said Holley.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). We are invigorated and inspired by this incredible act of generosity,” said Helene Gayle, president of Spelman College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

Philander Smith College will be transforming into a university, the school announced Aug. As a university, the Little Rock liberal arts school will look to expand academic offerings and research opportunities.

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University Business

JULY 6, 2023

International student enrollment has largely recouped to pre-pandemic numbers , including at the graduate level , with students from India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and Iran helping drive the way. California is the only college not located on the East Coast. The other 14 colleges on the list are also private institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 6, 2023

Faculty members and other supporters of the liberal arts gathered at Ursinus College last week to debate what liberal education is and how best to attract students to it. What is liberal education? How can colleges support it? And how can they attract more students to pursue it?

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

For White, a first-time leader in a role she was familiarizing herself with despite the pandemic, hers has been creating a five-year strategic plan that updates the small liberal arts model for the challenges higher education faces in the 21st century. Focus on student mental health and crisis management was priority number one.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Proposal also calls for gender neutral language at women’s college whose alumni include Hillary Clinton and Madeleine Albright Students at the famed Wellesley College for women voted this week to extend admission to trans men and non-binary students, though campus administrators have said there is “no plan” to immediately change school policy.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 13, 2023

Today on the Academic Minute: Timand Bates, visiting professor of education at Bard College, discusses how online education can affect student learning.

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