Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E. Two new hires are expected this year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

One striking example was highlighted in the case of a highly regarded private liberal arts college in the Midwest when it recently issued a public announcement about the creation of a department of African Diaspora studies on campus.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. Liberal Arts Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education , edited by J. Roth, Michael: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

At college and university academic libraries, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) initiatives often involve improving item-collection policies and enhancing access to materials for students and community members, resources for faculty research, and educational programming on related topics.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A proposed fundraiser event by a small liberal arts school president has incited an avalanche, calling for the resignation of a school dean and drawing the Board of Trustees into the muck as 120 faculty pressure the Board to begin its new president search immediately. We made that decision believing that our values were clear.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

While Taylor will be working to help the students feel comfortable on campus, he also wants the HUB to provide programming that goes beyond holding cultural events for Hispanic Heritage Month or Black History Month, for instance. ” Taylor said he believes diversity, equity and inclusion are centered around having hope.

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University Business

JUNE 29, 2023

Anita Olson Gustafson, on the other hand, drew on her decades-long, relentless passion for liberal arts to gain favor at Presbyterian College. In the 18 short months that Lynch led CSI, he has championed diversity, equity and inclusion and increased the institution’s financial health.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Projecting ahead at these rates of change, the percentage of underrepresented tenure-line faculty at liberal arts colleges in 2060 would be 19 percentage points behind the general population, compared to a gap of 22 percentage points across institutions studied.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Some of these overreaches have been in response to faculty serving as expert witness in court cases in which their testimony was unfavorable to the state’s position; some are battles over ideology; some are acts of political theatre; and some are attempts to whitewash history. This includes the literature, music, and art we teach and study.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite recent pushback against diversity, equity and inclusion among several states , a number of colleges have recently hired presidents based on their commitment to that principle. Jenkins is set to become Bates College’s first Black president in its 168-year history. Jenkins, Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) Garry W.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

There are the major tech firms which are under pressure to tangibly demonstrate their commitment to advancing social mobility and equity, as well as non-profits such as museums and foundations that hope to seize the day, broaden their mission, and connect to their target audiences in new ways. ” So what, then, are the answers?

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

What inspires these grim thoughts is Kimball and Iler’s richly researched, provocative and pivotally important history of college endowments, campus fundraising campaigns, university finances, institutional spending and student debt. Such an argument, the authors show, is grossly exaggerated.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

and continental European model, in which the liberal arts portion of a college education takes place in high school. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. Want an approach closer to the U.K. Steven Mintz Show on Jobs site: Disable left side advertisement?: Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2022

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. including college and university counselors.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

He teaches African American studies and history, among other courses. ” A War on ‘Many Fronts’ The controversial pledge by campus leaders comes at a time when DeSantis is waging an unsubtle war against what he sees as a liberal agenda at the state’s colleges and universities.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

A professor of Chicano/Latino studies and history at the University of California, Irvine, Anita was a high school teacher at 23, then a K-12 school director of curriculum and assessment, a freelance journalist and a migrant rights activist, before earning her Ph.D. We need it desperately, both to be able to survive and to thrive.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

In a bid to increase equity, a growing number of school districts are eliminating advanced and accelerated high school classes and valedictorian distinction. There are few measures of community engagement, equity in access to high demand majors, post-employment outcomes, or even student satisfaction. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 28, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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WCET Frontiers

JULY 27, 2023

The majority of these programs are deemed low-enrollment and fall within undergraduate humanities: mostly religious studies, philosophy, English, creative writing, languages, history, fine arts, and classics. In 2021, Delaware State University acquired Wesley College : a private liberal arts college in Dover, Delaware.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Bill Conley William Conley began his career in education as an AP History teacher and coach at Delbarton School, transitioning into higher education enrollment management in 1980. They have to take on and how that impacts their ability to buy a home, which is, the equity builder, etc. They can’t afford the loans.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 27, 2022

But before elite institutions jump on this particular band wagon, their faculty need to ask whether their institutions are well-equipped to educate these students better than a community college or equity-serving public 4-year institution can. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Institutional leadership need to support initiatives that are evidence-based, that can be scaled in an affordable, effective way, that promote equity and that improve essential learning outcomes. I may be old-fashioned, but what I consider essential to a liberal arts education is the interaction with a scholar and with classmates.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

Dr. Grimes, with over 17 years in higher education, brings a wealth of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education. Data-Driven Analysis of Needs and Equity Issues: Leverage data analytics to understand and address the needs of the student population, particularly focusing on areas of inequity.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Ivies, the flagships, the land-grants and the extremely selective and even moderately selective private universities and liberal arts colleges will do fine. ” In his words: the proposed model “will take on the challenges of cost and career value without rejecting the value of liberal arts of human teachers.”

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University Business

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Since guiding the institution through the grips of the pandemic and navigating the liberal arts institution’s students and staff through new modes of learning and teaching, he’s finally returned to center. “It feels like a pretty normal year,” he says.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 16, 2023

He, like me, attended a liberal arts college, and that was truly a magical time. He was on campus when the Ohio national guard shot and killed the four students at Kent State, leading to the first and only nationwide student strike in American history. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates. Focus on outcomes, not just courses.

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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 17, 2022

Tough topics courses that grapple with timely, difficult subjects such as equity, race, sexuality, or social justice, academically, not ideologically. We don’t need to embrace predominantly online delivery formats or replace scholar-teachers with course mentors or downgrade the liberal arts.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

o We were among the initial institutions to join the Liberal Arts College Racial Equity Leadership Alliance. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

opened with a searing attack that is at once ferocious and amusingly sarcastic: “Recent visitors to the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum were greeted with some unpleasant news: the museum was contaminated. Many of the debates facing museums resemble the storms over equity, diversity, and inclusion that colleges confront.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Meanwhile, equity gaps persist, with graduation rates for Pell Grant recipients and Black and Latino/a students roughly 10 points lower than among non–Pell Grant recipients and white and Asian American undergrads. This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 2, 2023

Here, I’d like to discuss the history of general education: its rise, fall, current status and need to be radically rethought and reimagined. As Gilbert Allardyce observed in his history of the Western Civ survey course , in 1882, only five Harvard classes enrolled 100 or more students; but by 1901, 14 had over 200 students.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2023

So to limit access to the information that strengthens us is troubling for a government to do,” says Richard Baker , JD, P hD , executive director of institutional equity and equal employment opportunity and Title IX coordinator at Rice University. Baker is also a member of the INSIGHT editorial board.

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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. 00:38:24] And there are a lot of those models, particularly among smaller, liberal arts institutions. And there’s no question that we are overpopulated with small undifferentiated liberal arts institutions.

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