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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

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Manhattanville remains a private liberal arts institution, but it has changed its orientation somewhat in recent years. Amid all these changes, some faculty members wonder whether Manhattanville can continue to offer a liberal arts–grounded education that is heavy on faculty-student interaction. Focus on the Future.

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Presidential moves: Strong appointments and 2 headscratchers

University Business

Phillips will be responsible for revamping Chatham’s academic program catalog specifically in health sciences and liberal arts. Students and alumni first started calling for her resignation in 2021 for a variety of reasons, such as declining enrollment, administrative resignations and “abysmal facilities.”

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Can Public Universities Scale Honors-Like Experiences for a Larger Number of Undergraduates?

Inside Higher Ed

A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. Such a vision persists and can be seen in Yale’s Directed Studies program or the University of Houston’s Human Situation course. Honors 4.0.

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Presidential worries: What’s keeping these Northeastern presidents up at night?

University Business

SUNY Oneonta President Alberto Cardelle invited Hartwick College to join the Regional Innovation Council to collaborate on regional issues and opportunities in healthcare and human services, business development, and employee recruitment and retention to name a few. ” Some see it as the same job but with a lot more hats to wear.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

Then there is a fourth tradition, which represented a distinctively American contribution: A focus on human capital formation, local and regional economic development, entertainment and sports, and community service. These four traditions co-exist uneasily within the contemporary college and university. I don’t think so.

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How Carleton College’s CTO increased staff diversity in IT

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For instance, a recent posting for a director of academic technology included these details: In 1992, Carleton created a Learning & Teaching Center to “sponsor conversations, encourage reflection, and offer a venue for classroom innovation that bears on the challenges and opportunities of education at a distinctive liberal arts college.”.

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How U.S. Colleges and Universities are Responding to Declining Enrollments

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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.