Dr. Missy Alexander

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Criminal Justice/Justice and Law Administration has created an MS in Homeland Security providing opportunities for advancement for students in business, computer science, and criminal justice. However, when the world attacks “liberal arts” they tend to point to specific disciplines as no longer relevant or meaningful.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Institutional leadership need to support initiatives that are evidence-based, that can be scaled in an affordable, effective way, that promote equity and that improve essential learning outcomes. I may be old-fashioned, but what I consider essential to a liberal arts education is the interaction with a scholar and with classmates.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates. Focus on outcomes, not just courses.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Tough topics courses that grapple with timely, difficult subjects such as equity, race, sexuality, or social justice, academically, not ideologically. We don’t need to embrace predominantly online delivery formats or replace scholar-teachers with course mentors or downgrade the liberal arts.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. They were very strong in the sciences, extremely strong in mathematics with the Curran Institute but didn’t have an engineering program. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences.

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