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Presidential moves: Strong appointments and 2 headscratchers

University Business

Phillips will be responsible for revamping Chatham’s academic program catalog specifically in health sciences and liberal arts. Students and alumni first started calling for her resignation in 2021 for a variety of reasons, such as declining enrollment, administrative resignations and “abysmal facilities.”

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Why Study Arts at U of G?

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It’s that wonderful time of year when I start getting messages from people whose children are deciding where to go to university and I get to talk about what is so special about studying arts at U of G. Even before the pandemic we’d recognized the need for a 3 year fully online General Bachelor of Arts. These are my top 10 reasons!

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Rising higher ed leaders tackle campus challenges in EAB’s fellowship

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Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D., Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Fostering sense of belonging among Black undergraduate students Melissa McGuire, Ph.D.,

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. This becomes a real long-term capacity-building and stratification issue because of F&A [Facilities & Administrative] and indirect costs. Andrew Koricich 14:51 Facilities & Administrative.

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

eLiterate

So we reject solutions that involve replacing teachers by robots, taking all lessons online, or demoting the humanities. The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. One that holds onto more of the residential liberal arts college tradition.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

The first, which initially arose in Italy and elsewhere on the European continent a millennium ago, offered professional training in law, medicine, and the church and later in such fields as architecture, business, engineering, and the sciences. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

The result, according to Feldstein: these institutions “make the same research demands on faculty and incur expenses for building out facilities that are not focused on creating well-educated citizens, successful professionals and thoughtful human beings. ” I call that the learner- and learning-centered university.