Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 2, 2022

A good liberal arts education should make us do that. And maybe, just maybe, I provided a better liberal arts education in Qatar than I thought. ” Indeed, a good liberal arts education should make us struggle. Both professor and student alike. His personal website is www.davidsbusch.com.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 12, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. They develop college-level writing and synthesis skills in an applied context, with the unwritten rules of the various workplaces revealing themselves over time and through comparison. In senior administration, you’re forced by circumstance to be more fox than hedgehog.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. The courses are co-taught by Vassar and community college faculty. Building more bridge programs “would be such a win-win,” she said.

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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. That can certainly be true, but Morgan State has found that liberal arts degrees can hold real appeal, too.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last weekend we drove to UMD to visit The Girl and catch a basketball game. Wise and worldly readers who teach in liberal arts fields, how do you handle conversations like these with students like these?

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MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We then offer them the opportunity not to overload in the spring, offering them a free class in the summer instead,” says Debra Boucher , Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Consider reaching out to lapsed enrollees via emails and phone calls tailored to each individual.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Last week, Sara Goldrick-Rab amplified a tweet from Ricky Shabazz that caught my eye. Apparently, the California State University Academic Senate recently passed a resolution imploring the state Legislature to block community colleges from offering bachelor’s degrees.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. – “Tuition guarantee - 3 yrs for community college, 6 yrs for undergraduate - rule of thumb is to add 50% of the expected time to complete, so it could be applied to trade certificates and other non-degree programs. Includes tuition and fees.”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 17, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Some great responses from readers came in this week! It’s also true that many liberal arts fields tend to lead to careers that aren’t closely related to their content. ” The idea of an “old books’ home” made me smile.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my wise and worldly readers to help me figure out how to do concurrent enrollment at scale. I was particularly interested in the credentials expected of the high school teachers who are deputized to teach college classes. Many wrote from other states.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2023

As accomplished as his tenure was, he was humble enough to credit his 12-year career at Concordia to its late former president for establishing a solid foundation that allowed him to seamlessly take the liberal arts school to the next level. “I Previous to that at Saint Paul College (Minn.)

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. If most people don’t use college-level math at work, why should it be a universal requirement for any degree? I was intrigued by the piece because it accidentally encapsulates the cross-pressures that community colleges have to navigate. And should it?

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In what faculty leaders and board members there agree was a too-rare triumph for shared governance these days, the independent California college gave its entire full-time faculty and representative groups of staff members and students the opportunity to meet with three finalists and weigh in on the final choice.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

AACC – American Association of Community Colleges – One of “The Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; they represent almost 1,200 institutions · AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – This is the leading accrediting body for business schools in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The College of Marin posted heat warnings on Twitter last Thursday telling students of expected temperatures at or above 90 degrees through Tuesday. ” the community college tweeted. ” Helping Communities Cool Down. “Plan ahead and have a buddy system!”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

(Just one in five Student Voice survey respondents says they’re required to meet periodically with advisers, though the number is closer to three in 10 for students at private institutions and just 14 percent for community college students.) GPA, so they’re not going to be on the dean’s list.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. Drumm McNaughton 05:51 More than half of those are community colleges, and community colleges in more urban areas are not so much focused on trades as they are the first two years of gen-ed.

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WCET Frontiers

AUGUST 3, 2023

A theater course at a small liberal arts college. A great example of a comprehensive task force is the one that the University of Alberta created that includes students, instructional design, faculty, IT, and the Dean of Students. Why this is important AI usage on campuses can be vast.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Joel Frater, who serves on the Society for College and University Planning Council, has seen how campus design, including functionality and flexibility, links to retention. Environments that are conducive to learning and community building help keep students enrolled.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including UC Irvine’s Outstanding Social Justice Activist Award, the Social Science Dean’s Awards for Outstanding Teaching and Outstanding Mentorship, and the UCI Academic Senate Award for Distinguished Faculty Mentorship. This turned into an ongoing debate. students as they did.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean. In dual enrollment programs, high school students take college classes that count for both high school credit and college credit. Typically that will mean something like a liberal arts transfer major.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Since retiring from Bucknell University, Bill’s partnered with his longtime friend Bob Massa, the former Dean of Enrollment at Johns Hopkins University, to assist universities in overcoming their enrollment challenges, especially at how things have changed in the COVID era. I think it was about three years old at the time.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He went on to chair MIT Sloan School’s Department of Economics, Finance and Accounting; then became Deputy Dean of the school; and eventually serve for three years as the Chief Economist for the Security and Exchange Commission of the United States before returning to MIT. On the bottom was the California Community College System.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But it’s substantially more expensive than the cost of face-to-face, interactive learning at a community college or at many broad access regional or urban publics. The average per credit cost a community college is $158 and $266 for in-state students at the University of Florida and $372 at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Yesterday I asked my readers what rule they would enact for higher education in their state if they were somehow declared Grand Poohbah of Higher Education for a day. (I Focusing only on the first job out of college distorts the picture. Sounds good to me.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2023

I became the dean of the College of Ministry and Theology at Northwest University in Seattle, Washington. So many community colleges have always been so successful at community trades, and sometimes liberal arts universities don’t even look at that. Then I went into higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. The boundaries of the “liberal arts” change over time and place. Classically, Orzel is correct: physics is a liberal art.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 4, 2023

Eventually, though, they acquiesced after receiving some “respectful pushback,” according to Marsha Dawson, Ithaca’s dean of students and the former director of residential life. Creating Community. Colleges have been working for years to make transgender and nonbinary students feel comfortable living on campus.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

This problem of limited guidance amid an abundance of opportunities is what inspired the developers of the influential guided pathways model of institutional change in community colleges. Additionally, as strong advocates of the liberal arts tradition, we contend that this core strength of U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

For example, after learning that students were concerned about affordability, Illinois Tech partnered with the local community college system, the City Colleges of Chicago, to create an innovative program. Previously, Echambadi served as the dean of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Key Takeaways for University Presidents and Boards Thoroughly Review the Report: University presidents, administrators, provosts, deans, and other leaders actively engage with the contents of the report. But, their argument is that they want, what they call the classical liberal arts curriculum. was there reason given?

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