Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

If we want to avoid just burning the whole humanities “thing” down, we need to start applying some of our fundamental humanities skills in order to communicate better with one another, to actually hear one another’s perspectives, and to build together toward something new rather than tearing each other down. (And

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

program in French and history, tells a story that resembles that of many humanities graduate students: that “the transformative experience I had in the classroom led me to dedicate my whole life to academia. The article’s author, Hannah Leffingwell, A.B.D. in New York University’s joint Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

Multiple faculty sources declined to speak on the record, saying that Manhattanville required departing professors to sign nondisparagement agreements in order to receive severance pay. Following his and others’ departures, he said, just one full-time professor will remain in his department. It’s incredibly destructive.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 4, 2023

“We’re not just marching through the archives,” said Blackwood, who chairs the English department at Pace. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S. ” The New Yorker article centered on the claim that the number of humanities majors in the U.S.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

When asked how departments would measure success in the year ahead, 78% indicated growth of programs and 60% student/ scholar satisfaction rates. Success for US professionals was led by the number of new international student enrolments as well as the number of students studying abroad.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In 2020, as interest grew and Black student enrollment increased, Sauvignon crafted a Black Studies curriculum and submitted it to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. Carine Sauvignon, executive dean for Massasoit’s Canton campus. The program got approval last spring.

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University Business

OCTOBER 2, 2023

” More from UB: Presidents corner: How can courage breathe new life into a classic liberal arts education? Human decisions are not without bias, and AI tools might actually be used to combat systemic racism or ageism,” Gayeski continues. Still, skepticism persists.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Over the last few weeks, I have been in several conversations about the impact of career focused education on the liberal arts. This framing reveals deeply held biases about what qualifies as liberal arts (and therefore a quality degree) which are pervasive in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Shauntae Brown White, professor of mass communication and coordinator of women’s and gender studies as well as Interim Associate Dean of the College of Arts, Social Science and Humanities, was part of the proposal process and the minor’s development. and globally.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

Image: Twenty-three Lafayette College department heads and program chairs say there are serious issues with governance at the college, according to “points of concern” four of them shared with the president and provost. The fourth, Eric Ziolkowski, the religious studies department head, said he had no comment.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

” 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. This included notes from past students and current colleagues, including her department chair, Briana Lewis, head of world languages and cultures.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” New College’s liberal arts structure allows students with an interest in theater to take a course, whether that’s in performance, dance, or technical theater. That comes directly from me being a Latinx artist,” said Villada.

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EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Carleton College’s IT department has 40 FTEs.) It also helps humanize the role. Standing alone makes [the persons of color or women] stand out as different, tripping the unconscious bias most of us have in our human tribe mentality.". Janet sat down with EAB’s IT Forum to share her strategies for diversifying the IT workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 13, 2023

Housed in the university’s Department of Family Science, the course will meet once a week in two consecutive seven-week sessions beginning in the spring semester. The demand seems to be there; according to Morgan, the course began filling up as soon as it was listed, even before the department began advertising it.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 14, 2022

This brought me back to another passage in Coolidge’s speech that emphasized the need to keep a firewall between the news department and the advertising branch: Our American newspapers serve a double purpose. Yet, in fact, I doubt if those adjustments are any more difficult than have to be made in every other department of human effort.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

. · AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. including college and university counselors.

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ACPA

JUNE 9, 2023

For instance, Colby College, which is a private liberal arts college. So it’s very surprising that Colby College is not a stem institution, it’s a private liberal arts college that established the institute called the Davis Institute for artificial intelligence in 2021.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

My department has fallen in size from 72 tenure-stream faculty to a little over 50, with no real decline in enrollments. Journals and presses find it hard to find manuscript reviewers, while departments often can’t locate external evaluators in tenure and promotion cases. Last semester I taught 800 students and this semester 80.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

State Department to eliminate barriers for higher American education institutions seeking to sponsor Afghan refugee students. “These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Department of Education that allows us to look at, if you study engineering or social work or psychology at a specific institution, what’s the ROI you’re getting, looking at your cost relative to the earnings boost you’re obtaining? People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Gillis: I’m an assistant professor in sociology at a small liberal arts college in upstate New York. Instructors are human beings, and when there’s a face in front of us in the classroom, it’s really hard to not cater to what those people are most wanting. They expect in-person education.

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eLiterate

JANUARY 17, 2023

And some people add to the congestion in overburdened hospital emergency departments. Colleges and universities could provide this role while weaving career paths through the traditional liberal arts education that has served humanity so well for so long. Alleviating Canada’s Acute Shortage of Family Doctors.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. Instead, appoint presidents who value their mission, their students, and what they’re capable of. One thing that I would caution against is when we think about the liberal arts and humanities as easy punching bags.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Steve Estes, director of academic advising at Northern Illinois University’s College of Liberal Arts, which uses Navigate, praises the platform’s appointment campaign feature for proactive outreach and advising.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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SRHE

JUNE 7, 2023

Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. Brett’s work prioritises Activity Theory conceptions of human practice, and interventionist methodologies. Julianne : It has!

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

About Our Podcast Guest Catherine Friday EY Oceania Managing Partner, Government and Health Sciences; EY Global Education Leader Catherine has spent much of her career providing services to state and federal departments and regulators, ministerial councils, not-for-profits, and NGOs in every state and territory in Australia and in New Zealand.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In March 2023, Penn State leadership asked all departments to submit positions for elimination.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In March 2023, Penn State leadership asked all departments to submit positions for elimination.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I intensely admire the objective: to provide accomplished, aspiring undergraduates the best that public higher education can offer—the small, rigorous classes and close personal interactions with faculty associated with liberal arts colleges and the resources and range of opportunities offered by comprehensive and research universities.

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Echo Delta

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Jeff Kallay: You’re a graduate of a small liberal arts college? ” There are a lot of beautiful liberal arts colleges out there. Jeff Kallay: We’re a traditional national ranked liberal arts college with about how many undergrads? Mae Watters: I am. Mae Watters: How did I end up in Sewanee?

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

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. So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. I was certainly right about his career prospects.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 7, 2023

“The four-year degree isn’t working for a lot of people,” Lori Carrell, the chancellor of the University of Minnesota at Rochester, told her colleagues around the table, noting higher education’s high cost and low degree attainment, which has “squandered human potential at times.” ” Pasquerella said.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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