The PIE News

APRIL 18, 2024

Liberal arts students are afforded the fewest official opportunities for post-study work. The PIE identified 19 colleges in the US to date from the beginning of 2023 that announced their closure which are either listed as liberal arts colleges or carry “strong liberal arts traditions”. It’s terrible.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

The very question—posed by educational historian Bruce A. Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. The awful truth is that the wealthiest institutions are so flush with resources that they are deforming the entire system of higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? By any standard, I had a privileged education, first at Oberlin, then at Yale.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I recently ran across a white paper called Ideas for an Affordable New Educational Institution out of MIT’s J-WEL center. 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. clearly never lost his passion as an educator.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

David shares how much the cost of education has risen from 1969 to 2020, why most college and university managers plan to budget, why this doesn’t help address the problem, and what higher ed can do to improve this. In 1969, the cost of public college education was $1,545 per year, 19% of the median household income.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. It was a remarkably forward-looking essay that did much to transform higher education and higher thought in our nation, and ultimately, the world. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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