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US liberal arts could shift focus to help post-study work options

The PIE News

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”.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

More seriously, I’m angered by the audacious and obnoxious claim that these campuses need donors’ and foundations’ money more than institutions that serve much larger population of socioeconomically disadvantaged students. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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If You Were Designing Cal State Today: A Proposal Out of MIT

eLiterate

This proposal might be called radically conservative in the sense that it is intended to conserve the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it. It will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.

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The Impact of Crushing Student Debt on American Society: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions: Changing Higher Education Podcast 164 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest David Linton

The Change Leader, Inc.

One solution to rising tuition costs would be that a large consortium of schools, e.g., PAC-12 schools or all Midwest liberal arts schools that happen to compete with one another, should announce they are not going to raise tuition by more than inflation each year for the next ten years. The main focus now is career readiness.

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A Happy Anniversary

Susquehanna President's Blog

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history.