MindMax

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A Brief History of Summer Programming The history of summer programming at higher education institutions can be broken down into three distinct eras. Amid the challenges and opportunities surrounding summer programming, it’s helpful to understand how summer programming started and where it’s heading. First-year and bridge programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

From the strategic and smart use of technology, to the need for data fluency across all disciplines (and yes, that includes liberal arts institutions), and the changing modes of online and in-person instruction, universities have been watching, and some embracing, what employers expect from graduates in today’s rapidly changing workforce.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 6, 2023

Work Zones The MCSS, along with various state and national partners, is currently leading three initiatives focused on improving transfer: Strengthening MiHumanities , Strengthening MiWorkforce Pathways and Liberal Arts Pathways From Community Colleges to Independent Institutions.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. King’s community must have held Whitaker in high regard, for the Christian university received its largest individual alumni gift and unrestricted financial gift in its 157-year history.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Next comes the argument that no one who was serious about developing faster, cheaper paths into “ high paying, in-demand jobs, like data and software engineering ,” would “ create [the] university as the way to get there.” ” Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It’s adding them July 1.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

“Appealing to a principle of ‘color-blindness’ at odds with history and law, the Court’s conservative majority says, ‘trust us’ while it imposes its will on higher education’s admission policies,” Roth and Gonzalez wrote in an email.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

At Susquehanna, we receive a list of 222 “national liberal arts colleges.” Some, like Wall Street Journal/THE assess all institutions together rather than separating liberal arts colleges from large universities or institutions that recruit regionally versus nationally. None of those institutions were in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In my view, a college education shouldn’t just cultivate students’ cognitive, analytic and problem-solving abilities or expand their content knowledge or merely instill the cultural literacies that we associate with a rich liberal arts education. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

” As part of the analysis, researchers looked at whether humanities programs were less likely to grow relative to programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. percent for 236 new programs for engineering, engineering-related technologies and technicians, similar to a 39.1

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Susquehanna President's Blog

JUNE 17, 2022

Much of the early history of grades in American higher education was associated with creating a way to determine which student would give that speech. These typically include a “valedictory,” which is literally a farewell speech to the graduating class.

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#Deaning

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

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. We’re a small arts college on a comprehensive university campus. These are my top 10 reasons! Programs, programs, programs!

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2023

While it includes a commitment to civic responsibilities, it also emphasizes the importance of producing employment-ready graduates with skills that transcend the boundaries of STEM and liberal arts education. This broader view of the public good aligns education more closely with the needs of society and the job market.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

Typically that will mean something like a liberal arts transfer major. For the future history major, it’s an elegant fit. But most students don’t want liberal arts majors when they get to college. But most students don’t want liberal arts majors when they get to college.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The focus of NEI will be on majors such as computer science and business, and eventually, broader areas of engineering and design. 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.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Blog: Confessions of a Community College Dean Chad Orzel’s piece this week, “ Physics Is a Liberal Art ,” is a must-read. He’s a physicist who attended a small liberal arts college and works at another one, so he’s well acquainted with the various ways in which the term “liberal arts” is used.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Notably, the engineering field experienced a substantial 16.1% decrease in enrollment, which is troubling, given the growing demand for engineering professionals. minority and STEM).

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 18, 2023

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. David Linton 20:25 That’s a really good point.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

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. Provide more experiential learning opportunities.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 2, 2023

One, honoring and strengthening the university’s role as an engine of opportunity and a national leader in economic mobility. I grew up in India as a mechanical engineer by profession. I was working for the tractor company Massey Ferguson in India as a service engineer. Raj Echambadi 02:24 This is a true story, Drumm.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 18, 2022

Thanks to funding from the New York-based Teagle Foundation, which is dedicated to supporting and strengthening liberal arts education and punches well beyond its weight, a number of other institutions have adopted somewhat similar models. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 3, 2023

“You can create a net-zero campus pretty easily by just shutting it down,” quips Jay Antle, executive director of the Center for Sustainability and a history professor at Johnson County Community College, in Kansas. “A teeny liberal arts college can’t make that investment.”

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

” This report marks a critical juncture in the AAUP’s history, being one of only eight special reports issued, and underscores a growing concern over political interference in the realm of academic governance. Professor of History, CSU East Bay1989-2010, Prof. Emeritus, 2015-present. [00:00:28]

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2024

About Our Podcast Guest Michael Goldstein has a long history of close engagement with higher education. NYU, one of the largest, richest universities in the United States, up until the 1970s had a large, if not terribly distinguished engineering school. And they felt this particularly in computer sciences. So those are. are models.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 14, 2023

Q: You call your book “the political history of an idea.” ” What is that idea and why do we need to know its political history? Q: What do you make then of the shrinking numbers of liberal arts students and the huge increase in those pursuing career tracks in fields such as engineering and business?

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