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Inside Higher Ed
AUGUST 17, 2022
Now, I see this through a new lens as my husband, Richard, and I have made our first big philanthropic investment in higher education: supporting one of our nation’s small liberal arts colleges. Today’s world is made better with the kind of education students get at a small liberal arts college.
Inside Higher Ed
JANUARY 13, 2023
With the recent announcement that Sean Decatur would assume the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History in New York after nearly a decade at the helm of Kenyon College, at least five major American cultural institutions will be headed by former presidents of small liberal arts colleges. Why is that?
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Inside Higher Ed
APRIL 6, 2023
Within community colleges, some programs of study are loosely defined, especially in the humanities, or were never designed to lead to transfer, as in the case of applied associate degrees. And improvement is needed.
Inside Higher Ed
OCTOBER 23, 2022
Which leaves the liberal arts, and especially the humanities, where? If, for most students, the primary measure of an undergraduate degree is return on investment, shouldn’t our institutions double down on those high demand, high return fields and let the liberal arts shrink to an appropriate size?
#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. That’s true for us too in the College of Arts. Just explore!
Susquehanna President's Blog
JUNE 17, 2022
I have been told that this is a vestige from a time when early scholars had a nook in their sleeves to keep their hands warm in unheated medieval environments. 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. Doctoral robes in the U.S.
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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