Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Despite this, 53% of student respondents at our two-year college have indicated they would be interested in research opportunities and identified far more benefits than barriers.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Despite this, 53% of student respondents at our two-year college have indicated they would be interested in research opportunities and identified far more benefits than barriers.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

He hopes to go back to school to become an engineer. Mr. Clark wants to go back to school to become an engineer. No colleges or universities are mentioned in the article or on the organization’s website. New York City has a robust collection of community colleges within the CUNY system.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

The main reasons for the decline in English majors, according to the New Yorker piece, are a lack of student interest in the traditional literary canon and the belief that an English degree doesn’t lead as easily and directly to a good job as, say, an engineering degree does. But the general public doesn’t know.”

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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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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Director for Transfer & Pathways, Central New Mexico Community College University Research Optimizing institutional resources for research growth Nick Hagemeier, Interim Vice Provost for Research, East Tennessee State University Want to learn more about the Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

We’ve seen the broader higher education community latching on to this narrative just to get a better understanding of whether or not specific institutions and programs are paying off. If you’re a college administrator, you know about this data, or you should be aware now. We have data from the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Asked to assess general building quality across campus, more than half of Student Voice respondents believe buildings seem well maintained, with about equal numbers from those at two-year colleges (n=250) and four-year colleges. No one—student or professor—wants to spend most of their time in a dilapidated building.

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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. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. I’ve worked at virtually every level of higher education, from community college to graduate-only schools.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2023

I’ve always believed that leaders who carefully attend to the alignment of people, strategies, and processes will create an engine for velocity amidst change. Again, it creates that engine for velocity amid change. That’s when you’re ready to start aligning the vision. Good alignment will bring about that sense of flow.

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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. And he’s right.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Dannels found that in engineering firms, professionals value communicators who can translate technical jargon to nonspecialists, an essential skill given the growth of cross-sector team projects in the field. 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.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1% decrease in enrollment, which is troubling, given the growing demand for engineering professionals. minority and STEM).

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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. I grew up in India as a mechanical engineer by profession. Raj Echambadi 02:24 This is a true story, Drumm.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Which is why I was bowled over when I learned what a neighboring institution, Austin Community College, was up to. John’s College, decided to wage war against a cookie-cutter education. Examples include: Purdue’s Cornerstone: Learning for Living, an immersive, integrated liberal arts certificate program.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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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. “A teeny liberal arts college can’t make that investment.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

And what is most striking about New College is that, as you say, this board engineered coup, if you will, or some have called it a hostile takeover, has allowed the Governor to use New College as the model for what he and his minions would like to see all of higher education become. [00:13:36] gender studies being one of them.

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