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Why supply chain insights are key for liberal arts programs

University Business

These programs too often lead to “poor outcomes, including poor retention, poor graduate employability, and poor long-term earnings potential,” the authors said. The coursework in the crosshairs isn’t hard to divine, either: liberal arts mainstays such as literature, history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and psychology.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts. Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.” Education Sciences 12, no. doi:10.34190/EEL.19.012.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

As humans, we all crave validation, and formative assessments provide such insight on students’ understandings of concepts. Dissemination of Growth Mindset Principles and Attitudes in the Division of Science and Mathematics at a Liberal Arts College.” Education Sciences 12, no. doi:10.34190/EEL.19.012.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations. Liberal arts majors have some sort of ROI, and while they might not have it immediately in terms of how much they’re making, we can see an exponential increase in their salary after the first few years. Oftentimes you think STEM means tech.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

Principle 3: An education that is less discipline-specific but that embraces the broader concerns of the humanities and social sciences, that addresses big and enduring questions, and that teaches students how to think like an anthropologist, historian, literary critic, political scientist, psychologist and sociologist.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

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. ” So what should these broad-access institutions do instead?