Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2023

He explained his departure in an open letter, claiming that Dr. Clarence Lang, dean of the College of the Liberal Arts, had refused to follow through on a commitment to hire two new tenure-line faculty. West resigned Apr. 5, less than a year into his five-year term.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

Morris Thomas My group contributed the suggestion that higher education should also consider the experience of and/or capacity for using digital learning tools in addition to the subject matter expertise of an individual. Higher education as a whole has recently been scrutinized for its value.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. Dr. Monique Guillory “Dr.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Many high school graduates are opting out of college, but if they do ultimately enter higher education, it will most likely be through community colleges— historically a primary gateway for returning adults. While the effects of these pathways have yet to be examined, early evidence points to the potential for impact.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Four in five education professionals in the US say global engagement is part of the multi-year plan at the institution where they work, new research has identified. The company surveyed more than 250 US global education professionals in April 2023.

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University Business

APRIL 24, 2023

With a smaller pool of available students due to demographic shifts, a growing wake of attention to mental health and a swelling public skepticism of higher education, these leaders from Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Maine are redefining their job to guide their schools in murky waters.

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Liberal Arts Retention Recruitment Higher Education 105

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2024

Guillory not only brings a wealth of experience as a teacher and scholar grounded in liberal arts, but she also has served at research universities with graduate programs,” said Ford. Guillory will serve as a senior cabinet member and in the administrative office, next in line to Ford. Dr. Monique Guillory “Dr.

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Liberal Arts Provost Professional Development Leadership 88

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. In terms of the overall state of higher education, it’s nothing to celebrate—there are still lots of students not completing,” said Shapiro.

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Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Community College Higher Education 98

Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Image: Adrian College president Jeff Docking has some innovative ideas for higher education leaders battling enrollment pressures and market forces. His dual capacity as president of Adrian and co-owner of Rize Education, however, has raised questions about a potential conflict of interest as use of the platform grows.

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Liberal Arts College Faculty Recruitment 97

University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

million—and also increased their ranking on the National Science Foundation’s survey of Higher Education of Research and Development Expenditures (HERD) from 42 to 22. In just three years, he’s helped increase CSU’s external awards by 227%—it now totals $50.5 Additionally, he’s secured funding from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Rufo said his plans were to recruit faculty, restructure the administration and academic departments, develop a new core curriculum, and eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. “My My ambition is to help the new board majority transform New College into a classical liberal arts institution,” Rufo said. “We

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

million freshmen who enrolled in 2019, “this is a very promising sign for higher education,” said Doug Shapiro, the research center’s executive director. Still, it’s not entirely clear why students are returning to higher education now—or whether the trend is likely to continue into this fall.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college.

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Liberal Arts College Arts And Sciences Recruitment 98

Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Ted Mason, PhD In the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions in higher education, experts in the field of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) are at a crossroads. How has the ruling affected the overall DEI climate in higher education?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. The professor studies the flow and migration of people, in particular, how individuals from Latin America came to, worked in, and were recruited to play baseball in the U.S.

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History Liberal Arts Recruitment Degree 93

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

So, we'll be able to help faculty and support their research in the area of engineering education, both at our institutions as well as institutions across the country that are interested in this type of research.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

While the private online school is still in its embryonic stages since its founding in 2018, it aims to recruit over 100,000 students in the next few years, according to PIX 11. Another 91% say it’s very important for schools to teach “21st-century” skills like problem-solving and communication.

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Education Arts And Sciences Liberal Arts Technology 98

University Business

JUNE 12, 2023

These are some key takeaways EAB gathered in their latest meta-report that creates a comprehensive picture of higher education’s future college cohort: “Gen P.” This may explain why enrollment in liberal arts colleges has sharply declined over the same period as general enrollment in higher ed has.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Image: Rising numbers of community college students kept total enrollment across all sectors of higher education flat this spring despite a decline in the largest category of institutions by share of enrollment: public four-year universities. Community college enrollment increased by 2.1 percent at nonprofit institutions and 2.2

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

However, the report found that while 51% of the 900 respondents from US institutions noted US student study abroad as a future priority, 63% identified international student recruitment as the top priority. International recruitment. If so, we will need to limit our growth in recruiting,” he explained. Photo: ACE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

To thine own powers appeal,” the NTS operated from 1909-1961 and complemented its vocational curriculum with mandatory courses in Black history and the liberal arts. When asked whether she was “actively recruited” to Grinnell College, she decisively responds, “They didn’t recruit me at all. I recruited myself.”

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History Liberal Arts Recruitment Deans 105

EAB

DECEMBER 14, 2022

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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The Change Leader, Inc.

MAY 16, 2023

The University Learning Goals page helps the recruitment process by showing prospective students and their families what and how successful some career pathways are. Everything that goes on or informs the University Learning Goals page is shared with the admissions team to help with recruitment.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Rodney Smolla, a veteran lawyer and higher education leader, took over as the Vermont Law and Graduate School’s president in July, just weeks after the changes were announced. ” Enrollment drops are a concern across higher education, but they have hit law schools particularly hard. Interest in J.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 21, 2023

Over all, they described “similar numbers of growing and failing programs” and suggested that lowering the failure rate “would be a huge step forward for higher education.” percent failure rate for 156 new programs in the liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

The disruptors’ diagnosis of the weaknesses in today’s system of higher education is not wholly wrong. Still, there are good reasons for the US Department of Education and the accreditors’ reluctance to allow new institutions to feed at the federal financial aid trough. But keep two thoughts in mind.

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Campus Sonar

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

higher ed institutions are at, or nearing, financial risk, calculated by EY-Parthenon’s Institutional Viability Metric (IVM). Of these institutions, public campuses are less likely to be stable than their liberal arts and private, nonprofit counterparts. This is the hard, necessary work to save higher education in the U.S.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Some places make a distinction between liberal arts courses and CTE courses, allowing industry certifications to take the place of graduate degrees in career and technical areas. I don’t know how successful the program is at recruitment, but the idea certainly makes sense.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Alphabet Soup - Higher-Education Organizations There are dozens of national, international, and regional organizations supporting higher education. They work on policies and best practices for research and scholarship in higher education. They focus on expanding access to all students.

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eLiterate

OCTOBER 20, 2022

First, post-traditional students being recruited aggressively by a surprisingly broad swath of colleges and universities. We’re still in the early days of “post-pandemic” higher education. Maybe this is a recruitment problem in the short term. Several articles caught my eye this week. Enrollment shifts.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. “It feels very validating.”

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. When the political world started clamoring for evidence of outcomes, AAC&U championed the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education and the development of the VALUE Rubrics.

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Liberal Arts Equity Community College Organization 59

University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. ” Dr. Susana Rivera-Mills, Aurora University (Aurora, Ill.) . ” Rivera-Mills begin this June. Rosenbury, Barnard College (New York, N.Y.)

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Identifying, Recruiting, and Motivating Undergraduate Student Researchers at a Community College.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution. We thank you for your support over the years.”

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Students’ experiences in higher education goes far beyond the curriculum in their programs. There may be more opportunities at a research-focused university than a community college or a school more focused on liberal arts. Identifying, Recruiting, and Motivating Undergraduate Student Researchers at a Community College.

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