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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

Manhattanville hasn’t publicly announced which programs are frozen, but faculty sources say they are art history, world religions, philosophy, film studies, music, music education, French, Spanish and chemistry. Other faculty sources said that history has two remaining full-time faculty members.

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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. If no one studies history, we don’t get the next Doris Kearns Goodwin; if no one studies English literature, whence the next David McCullough?

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College 2023

Inside Higher Ed

I find it remarkable that leading law schools decided to attack the ranking system by denying U.S. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. The key levers, in my view, must come from outside individual campuses, since that may well be the only way to overcome institutional gridlock.

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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

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We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computer science. We also have the first design school in the country. There’s also a preeminent architecture school, law school, business school, and the School of the Sciences.