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Oh, the humanit(ies)! Why integrating the liberal arts and STEM is a win-win for students, institutions

University Business

. “We mustn’t kill liberal education in order to save it, but we must also recognize that it is under genuine threat and that if it fails to adapt, it will only become even more marginal and peripheral,” wrote Steven Mintz, a professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Innovating at Scale

Inside Higher Ed

ACC responded by implementing the community college success formula – a multi-pronged approach to student retention and success that has become widespread thanks, in part, to the intrepid efforts of the Community College Research Center: Provide every student with a clear degree map. Excuse making helps no one.

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Life support: How colleges are guiding students beyond campus life

University Business

College students have a history of stressing over finances. The private liberal arts school has dedicated a cohort for first-generation students in MentorGrinnell , a virtual mentorship program that began this fall. Time and time again, managing finances after graduation dominated the brainstorming sessions.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.

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Which Path Forward?

Inside Higher Ed

What we need, I think, is what Feldstein calls a “radically conservative” vision that conserves “the best parts of an American-style liberal arts education by re-imagining it but not rejecting it.” This is an institution that values scholarship, the liberal arts, a physical campus and the teacher-scholar.

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Why Implementing a Richer, More Robust Academic Experience Is So Hard

Inside Higher Ed

To promote teaching innovation, institutions establish a teaching center and an instructional design and educational technology center. A supplemental or alternative strategy is to give instructors access to an instructional designer or to a graduate student or advanced undergraduate well versed in instructional technology.

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A Global Shift in Higher Education Requires a New Business Model: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 180 with Drumm McNaughton and Catherine Friday

The Change Leader, Inc.

By directly involving high school students in the design of their future educational experiences, REP4 demonstrates a proactive approach to student engagement. Moreover, advancements in digital learning technologies are not just buzzwords but tangible tools reshaping the educational landscape. And of course the reverse is also true.

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