University Business
MAY 14, 2024
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.”
Inside Higher Ed
MARCH 5, 2023
A liberal arts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. At the very small liberal arts college [Swarthmore College] I attended, I unwittingly pursued a four-year internship in academic administration. Flexibility and rigor aren’t diametrically opposed.
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Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 4, 2023
The main reasons for the decline in English majors, according to the New Yorker piece, are a lack of student interest in the traditional literary canon and the belief that an English degree doesn’t lead as easily and directly to a good job as, say, an engineering degree does.
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.
SRHE
JUNE 7, 2023
Spaces aren’t (in most cases) designed by the educators teaching in them, but looking at the formal learning setting (lab, lecture theatre, seminar room, etc) through a critical lens can help educators begin to think about what they might want to achieve in that space. Sometimes in deep conversation and some shy and yet eager to belong.
Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 18, 2022
Go to most campuses and a conventional, unimaginative, standardized approach to education is the norm: A college education consists of 60 or 120 credit hours, a 15 week-long semester, distribution requirements, a department-based major, and 3 or 5 credit hour lecture, seminar, and laboratory courses. Sure, there are exceptions.
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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