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DeSantis seeks to overhaul small liberal arts college

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In his first term as Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis sought to reshape higher education at the state level, pushing changes to accreditation requirements and tenure while requiring widely criticized intellectual diversity surveys and limiting diversity, equity and inclusion instruction in public colleges.

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The University Business Podcast: Why STEM needs the humanities—and vice versa

University Business

Deliberately integrating the humanities into Georgia Tech University’s armada of world-class STEM-based programs is the future of pedagogy at the R1 Atlanta university—and perhaps for all of higher education, says Richard Utz, interim dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, in this installment of the “University Business Podcast.”

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Spelman College Receives $100M Gift

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Atlanta-based institution was founded in 1881 and is considered a leading liberal arts college and global leader in the education of women of African descent. This gift is a critical step in our school’s mission to eliminate financial barriers to starting and finishing a Spelman education.

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‘Hostile takeover’: the tiny Florida university targeted by Ron DeSantis

The Guardian - Higher Education

It was the first institution of higher education in Florida – which was once part of the slave-owning Confederacy – to pioneer an open admissions policy committing the school not to discriminate based on “race, creed, national origin, or cultural status”. Continue reading.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I think its values, what it represents, is the best of higher education.” Mount Holyoke is a gender-inclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, one of the historic Seven Sisters, a group of highly selective women’s liberal arts institutions in the Northeast. The search committee included two student representatives.

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Independent Colleges: Four Headwinds for Leadership to Navigate in 2024

Campus Sonar

At CIC, we saw the need for liberal arts colleges (LACs) to amplify the value of liberal arts in career preparation and shaping society. For example, Hampshire College fundamentally restructured its liberal arts experience to address globally relevant problems urgently needing solutions.

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Students at Women's College Voted in Favor of Allowing Transgender Men and Nonbinary People Assigned Male at Birth for Admission

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. Several other women’s liberal arts colleges allow trans women for admission but also allow trans men who transition at university to graduate. Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission.