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Flawed survey on the 'liberal arts' (letter)

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Letters to the Editor To the Editor: The survey and book that Scott Jaschik reports on (" What Are the Liberal Arts? 19) is seriously flawed and the reasons why help us to understand the problems that the Art & Science Group and study purport to study. " Sept. 2022), 16-26. Ohio State University.

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Building careers in the humanities

Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. This semester, the first cohort of the Mandel program came together, comprised of students with interests in the arts, writing, communication or the humanities.

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Association Expands ‘Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Campus’ Effort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The campus centers seek to prepare the next generation of leaders and thinkers to build equitable and just communities by dismantling the false belief in a hierarchy of human value.

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Reflections on Fitzgerald and the Qatar World Cup (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

In the same way, I hoped students would see Qatar’s transformations as containing many political possibilities while recognizing the country had much work to do in terms of human rights. Western countries, including both European nations and the United States, have a terrible track record when it comes to the history of human rights.

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Work Zones Ahead!

Inside Higher Ed

Misalignment of courses designed for transfer, a lack of cohesive curricula at the community college level, and gaps in inter-institutional communication that can lead to inconsistent student guidance have all contributed to these disappointing transfer outcomes. And improvement is needed.

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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. With over 12,000 students at New Jersey’s largest private university, the school will need guidance overcoming its operating deficits and modest endowment numbers.

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Informational Holism: Humanities librarianship, liberal arts, and the limitations of quantitative metrics

ACRLog

Benjamin Dueck is a General Librarian in the Arts & Humanities Division at The University of Manitoba Libraries. Earlier this month, I began working as a full-time Humanities Liaison Librarian at the University of Manitoba. The future of humanities librarianship.