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Universities should be “skills brokers” for mutual benefit, urges report

The PIE News

Across the four countries analysed in the report, employer demand was similar in 2022, with engineering, computer science, nursing and business graduates highly sought after. “There is going to be a continuing need for liberal arts because critical thinking is still a fundamental skill,” he detailed.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

With the integration of the BSDT, Clark is positioned to empower scholarship, pedagogy and innovation related to creative arts, media, design and technology. The academic programs represented by the BSDT were complementary to, and synergistic with, Clark’s existing curricular and programmatic offerings.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

I’m specifically focused on federal policy; I want to help ensure that federal taxpayer dollars are being used effectively and efficiently and that students have at least minimally good outcomes to where they’re not worse off after they attend a federally funded institution or college program.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

Reflecting on the past is as valuable in our personal and professional lives as it is in policy making. A third tradition, which stressed research, scholarship, and the applied sciences, emerged in nineteenth century Germany, especially at the universities of Gottingen and Berlin.

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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. Policies and Practices. I certainly wouldn’t.

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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

The Change Leader, Inc.

This policy shift, while intended to provide structured oversight, may inadvertently place additional burdens on these institutions. 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.