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Minnesota Catholic colleges cut languages, other humanities

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Image: Two linked Minnesota Roman Catholic institutions are reducing language and other humanities offerings, including nixing all its ancient Greek and Chinese classes. ” But he said there are financial issues at smaller colleges that “are general problems, not just of humanities.”

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Manhattanville cuts tenured faculty, freezes programs

Inside Higher Ed

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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When a college president is also a tech entrepreneur

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The anonymous professor said the president has done exactly that through a past layoff attempt that was only reversed after alumni pressured the university to keep threatened positions in the humanities.). “Small private liberal arts colleges aren’t for everybody, but they work really well for the kids that need them.

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Massasoit Community College Launches New Black Studies Major

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As such, credits from Massasoit’s Black Studies courses count toward liberal arts and humanities elective requirements aligned with most of the school’s degrees and will factor into transfer credit to four-year colleges, she says.

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Journal places warning on flawed abuse-homosexuality study

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Grove City, in Pennsylvania, is a Christian liberal arts college. Magazine treatment: Trending: Trending text: A Controversial Journal Article Trending order: 2 Display Promo Box: Live Updates: liveupdates0 Most Popular: 6 In-Article Advertisement High: 9 In-Article related stories: 12 In-Article Advertisement Low: 15 Include DNU?

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Vassar connects two-year colleges and liberal arts colleges

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Image: Campus leaders at Vassar College are on a mission to bring community college students to liberal arts institutions. They announced plans this fall to help 30 liberal arts colleges explore how to start programs modeled after Exploring Transfer, a 35-year-old summer bridge program for community college students at Vassar.

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Study finds true faculty diversity is possible by 2050

Inside Higher Ed

This is the upshot of a new analysis in Nature Human Behavior that challenges the persistent idea that faculty diversity amounts to a “pipeline” problem. The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Image: College and universities will need to diversify their faculties at about 3.5

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