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Colleges used these 3 strategies to spark big enrollment rebounds this Fall

University Business

Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year. The Class of 2027 at the University of South Alabama is one of the largest in school history, bumping first-year enrollment by 19% compared to last year.

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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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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

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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. What a Neo-Cal State would be like.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin. This idea was brought to the American colonies largely by graduates from Cambridge and Edinburgh. Provide more experiential learning opportunities.

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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.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

Why would faculty who were disciplinary specialists trained at elite graduate schools and well published in their fields forsake scholarship? This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar. I certainly wouldn’t. What, then, is the alternative?

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Regulatory Changes and Their Implications for Higher Education Mergers: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 190 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Mike Goldstein

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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.