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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

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So the institution’s disclosure that it briefed the Board of Visitors on not just a department but a possible division-level unit of computational and data science stunned many on campus. William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance.

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. After the nearby College of New Rochelle closed in 2019 amid financial woes, Manhattanville hired its dean of nursing and launched its own School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Focus on the Future.

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Freshman enrollment is up for the first time since 2019

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Of the top five majors represented in the report, only business saw increases from last year, while health professions, liberal arts, biological and biomedical sciences, and engineering all continued to drop. Computer science, the sixth most popular major, saw significant growth, increasing by 10.4

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Work-life balance seeps into discussions on leadership, too

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” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Why did Allegheny cut its Chinese program?

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” The college said its plan also “calls for Allegheny to have a student-to-faculty ratio that is aligned with other national liberal arts colleges. Magazine treatment: Trending: Trending text: Why Did Allegheny Cut Chinese? All other programs—including Chinese—were to be maintained.

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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. Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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