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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

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. Without art history, anthropology, and archaeology majors, who will curate our museums?

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Why your school needs to adopt curricula in computer and information sciences

University Business

Out of the top 20 undergraduate four-year majors, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found that computer and information (data) sciences is the only one that has seen consistent growth, with student interest surviving the wake of the pandemic. The employment growth rate for jobs in computer and mathematics is projected to be 15.2%

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Preparing for the Next 330 Years (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

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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What Today’s College Students Need

Inside Higher Ed

Sweeping survey courses on such topics as big history (the sweeping history of the cosmos, Earth, life, and humanity), ethics, religion, cognitive distortions, social science methods and thinking, and world art, literature, or music. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computer science. There’s also a preeminent architecture school, law school, business school, and the School of the Sciences. But there was no civics, history, geography, or any form of a liberal arts education. Thanks for listening.