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Becoming a Mission-Driven University

Inside Higher Ed

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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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

We have something called the Arizona Teachers Academy, which will provide students a tuition-free teacher-prep degree, provided they commit to staying in the state and teaching in a school in the state for the same number of years that they get this scholarship. People often worry about liberal arts majors in these conversations.

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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. I’m trained to do primarily one thing, whereas folks in liberal arts are trained to think differently about many things and learn different subjects. But they must stay proactive and transparent.

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

EAB

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

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Coming from a US liberal arts background, my initial mental image of a ‘campus’ is very different from the revised version that is in my mind’s eye after studying and working at universities in the UK. His research interrogates the nexus of technology mediation, physical environment, and institutional change in higher education.

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Beyond Ideas: Implementing Innovative Structures in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 179 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Philomena "Philly" Mantella

The Change Leader, Inc.

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. If we believe that human promise is distributed equally, it’s what has been our lived experience.

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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. 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.