Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.” Ascertaining the Online Learning Behaviors and Formative Assessments Affecting Students’ Academic Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Computer Science Course.”

Empower 100

Empower Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Environment 100

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

It was a blow to the students, faculty and staff of this private college in Worcester, Mass., The dean of the Becker School reports administratively to the provost office and is subject to all the normal graduate and undergraduate governance review boards, while the school itself has a designated faculty and its own academic leadership.

Arts And Sciences 98

Arts And Sciences Faculty Facilities Deans 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 11, 2023

Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.” Ascertaining the Online Learning Behaviors and Formative Assessments Affecting Students’ Academic Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of a Computer Science Course.”

Empower 78

Empower Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Environment 78

eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This was back in the 1990s, so it was early for a professor outside of an education or computer science department to be thinking about such things. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. And why not?

Liberal Arts 67

Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Model Computer Science 67

The Change Leader, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

They also talk about the careers with the best ROI and how those with liberal arts degrees fare by comparison. Podcast Highlights Michael draws on his background as the former director of the College Scorecard program during his time in the Obama Administration to create user-friendly reports, utilizing the dataset’s 2,000 variables.

Institution 64

Institution Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Students 64

Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Most faculty prefer to teach courses squarely within their discipline and preferably in their area of specialization. This discipline- and faculty-centric approach discourages the kind of collaboration across departmental lines that is needed to create more synergistic, coherent or integrated degree pathways.

Arts And Sciences 67

Arts And Sciences Advise Liberal Arts Computer Science 67

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

The interests of administrators, faculty, staff, and students frequently collide. Can financially-challenged institutions sustain the range of majors and faculty size, especially in the humanities, while adding new career-aligned fields? These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Arts And Sciences College Computer Science Applied Science 111

The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

These include not only students learning from faculty but also students learning from each other and faculty learning from students. We are very honored to have gotten that designation, which honors the work of our illustrious faculty and staff. We were required to take a lot of liberal arts courses.

Higher Education 52

Higher Education Achievement Education Inclusivity 52

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Campuses need to do more to cultivate a sense of belonging and connection with faculty, classmates, and the campus itself. Still, there are steps that institutions can take to enhance outside-the-classroom life: facilitate more interaction with faculty, including emeritus faculty.

Arts And Sciences 71

Arts And Sciences College Students Advise 71

Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” Harsh, but perhaps true. ” Ugh. I certainly wouldn’t.

Arts And Sciences 78

Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Advise Model 78

HESA

APRIL 5, 2023

I see we’re back into tiresome public debates about the value of “Liberal Arts” and the “Humanities” (not synonyms, even though most people use the terms interchangeably). HOLY SWEET CRAP that casual equation of “fewer liberal arts students” = universities becoming vocational schools.

Humanities 58

Humanities Liberal Arts Arts And Sciences Computer Science 58