Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

The University of Mary Washington, a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has received the largest gift in its 115-year history - a $30 million estate gift from alum Irene Piscopo Rodgers. Rodgers had previously created eight Alvey scholarships.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about equity. This is about. —

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis seeks to overhaul New College of Florida, lawmakers next week could funnel $15 million to the liberal-arts school for such things as hiring faculty and providing scholarships. The state university system’s Board of Governors requested the money. Read more on Herald Tribune.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. Students in these academic areas may also benefit from enrichment experiences through the Charlene Moskal-Burges and Dr. Bill Burges Scholarship Fund.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. I mean that quite literally…” the university stated on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Many high school graduates are opting out of college, but if they do ultimately enter higher education, it will most likely be through community colleges— historically a primary gateway for returning adults. So what can be done differently to promote transfer access to private institutions offering a liberal arts education at scale?

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Higher education stakeholders have been transfixed by declining student enrollment numbers in the past decade, which were only exacerbated further by the pandemic. The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A Historically Black College and University has been included in a list of institutions receiving prestigious internationalisation awards for the first time. Also honoured was Hispanic Serving Institution Arizona State University – designated a HSI by the department for education in 2022 – for its Afghan Women’s Education Project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

As this year’s applicants and families make a decision, I am at my wits’ end about how to address a persistent problem: outsized attention devoted to so-called “best” or “top” colleges and universities. As another example, Princeton University announced that it would be tuition-free for families whose incomes are less than $100,000.

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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? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

When applied to education, this principle seeks to promote the personal development of the whole person, mentally, but also physically, ethically and, yes, spiritually. I find this idea of educating the whole person inspiring. Personal development is too central to a college education to be ignored.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. He holds a B.A.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Top 10 Student Recruitment strategies every institution should adopt editor Tue, 10/03/2023 - 05:24 In the dynamic world of higher education, recruiting top-tier talent isn't just a process—it's an art. This blog serves as your guide to 10 essential Higher Education Recruitment strategies.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In the last two weeks in higher education, the number of presidents to announce retirement doubled that of confirmed hires. While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Brennan, chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, according to a school statement.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

Dozens of Illinois schools report having no students meet the state’s proficiency standards in either math or reading , and seven of these schools were deemed “commendable” by the state board of education.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With Gen Z students loving non-degree pathways , the next logical line of thinking for some degree-granting colleges and universities is what they can do to enlighten potential students of their institutions’ benefits.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

Its decisions to rule against affirmative action have struck a nerve with higher education leaders. But Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth and Gonzalez from Wesleyan University believe the Court’s decision extends beyond STEM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the next five years, New College of Florida plans to become the best liberal arts college in America. New College’s wish is the legislature’s command The university has racked up a tab since New College’s overhaul in January. primary purposes of education practice.” Jason Shoaf.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Quality of education (weighed 30%): graduation rates, Pell Grant recipient outcomes, peer quality, student-to-faculty ratio, etc. 6% $85,400 $25,800 94% Duke University (N.C.)

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

The majority of the college leaders transitioning in or out of the president position in the past two weeks have demonstrated excellence in one of higher education’s top executive positions. University leaders consider it a turnaround and are riding with McDonnell for the future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Diego Villada Title: Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, New College of Florida Age: 38 Education: B.S., psychology and theatre performance, University of Evansville; MFA, theatre pedagogy, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Ph.D., He gets us thinking about things differently.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No Part of it is, it’s just easier to go out and get a decent job at the moment without an education.”

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A spate of new hires breathes fresh life into higher education as the thick of winter slowly dissipates. Cantor is wrapping up her nine-year term at Rutgers University-Newark following the chancellor of Rutgers deciding not to renew her contract. Before Rutgers-Newark, she enjoyed a nine-year presidential stint at Syracuse University.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The demands placed on colleges and universities have evolved beyond providing a world-renowned education. However, this growing facet of higher education intersects with the public’s growing disdain for the degree’s price tag. But spending more money than one currently has is easier said than done, says Young.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: An English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University said his teaching contract has been put on hold after complaints about his instruction on race and racism. 15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Since the Taliban suspended the rights of Afghan women to pursue higher education last month, many American higher education institutions and leaders have decried the ban. A few are going further, asking what they can do to help Afghan women regain control of their academic futures, whether through scholarships to U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

granting universities. But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. The SED shows that American universities awarded 55,283 doctoral degrees in 2020—15 percent more than a decade earlier.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This morning I was reading about some really great projects being led by the American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ). AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. They provide a wealth of helpful information that helps me think through campus initiatives.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. AAHEA – American Association for Higher Education and Accreditation – Founded in 1870, this was originally the “Department of Higher Education” of the NEA (National Education Association).

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Susquehanna President's Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

In their best times, they have borne a commitment to ecumenicalism, and each has a rich history of scholarship and teaching. For centuries, faith and reason have met in the world’s great universities. They and successive generations of the Weis family have provided generous philanthropic and leadership support to the university.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation We are always eager to hear new ways universities are creating affordable online programs at scale. These two leaders from Georgetown University and Coursera recently announced a new online bachelor’s completion program. Kelly: Student support is of central importance to us.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

31 October · Episode 179 Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education 38 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Implementing innovative structures in higher education is not an option; it's a necessity. President Mantella's approach is a how-to guide.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Clark University had been a neighbor to Becker for nearly 135 years. The proposed substantive change was approved by Clark’s accreditor, the New England Commission of Higher Education, in April 2021. In fact, the move from opportunity to execution happened more quickly than is characteristic in higher education.

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