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Small Liberal Arts Colleges: Punching Above Their Weight

Helix Education

Everyone loves a David and Goliath story, and at this moment in the history of higher education, small colleges could use one. WVWC is a quintessential small liberal arts college with a population of 1,100 students and a beautiful campus nestled in the heart of central West Virginia. The news has not been good.

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President’s Corner: Why Lori White believes DePauw is at a nexus point

University Business

This also marked the first time in DePauw University’s history that a woman and a person of color was stepping in. The pandemic, an event timestamped in the history of U.S. For the first time in her career, she was the president of a university. But this was March of 2020.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Canton and others participate in an African American Studies welcome event.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Increased Black student enrollment], and unfortunately with the events that took place during that time – between George Floyd and Breonna Taylor – we were kind of called to task about providing more opportunities to engage our Black students in higher education, as much as with the community that we serve,” Sauvignon says. “For

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Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., Students attend a variety of events, including a Colloquium in Queer Culture and leadership seminars. is a unit of Bard College in New York and is designed as an early college program for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students.

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Academic Libraries Champion DEI Efforts

Insight Into Diversity

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Higher Education Reading List

Susquehanna President's Blog

Here it is: Newsletters and Magazines I start each weekday with a review of these three: Inside Higher Ed publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education. History Kimball, Bruce A.: Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education , expanded edition. New York: College Board, 1995.