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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. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the researchers found that the racial diversity of U.S. population in terms of race by 2050.

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Field of study not key to new academic program success

Inside Higher Ed

Image: The success rate for new academic programs at colleges and universities depends more on the type of institution launching them than whether a program is in the sciences or humanities, according to a new report identifying what sorts of programs fare better when it comes to growth. ” The study listed a failure rate of 39.4

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

AAC&U – American Association of Colleges and Universities – this is the organization that focusses on liberal-arts education across higher education with an emphasis on enhancing the quality of teaching and learning and advocacy on the power of a liberal education. Department of Education.

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How colleges measure and prove their value: Key podcast

Inside Higher Ed

Our newly approved vision as a university, part of our NAU Charter, calls on us to become the nation’s pre-eminent engine of opportunity, vehicle of economic mobility and driver of social impact by delivering equitable postsecondary value to the people of Arizona and beyond. That gave us a different way to think about it.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Also, don’t fully disregard liberal arts education since students still need a well-rounded education. One thing that I would caution against is when we think about the liberal arts and humanities as easy punching bags. But they must stay proactive and transparent.

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A state's plan to calculate the "economic value" of a degree

Inside Higher Ed

“The rest of those benefits, all the other great things that come from a postsecondary education, are fundamentally inaccessible to you if you can’t even afford to go,” he said. “Humanities majors want jobs, too.”

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The role of the liberal arts in an era of skills-based hiring

Inside Higher Ed

“I’m not hearing this morning about a migration away from the liberal arts, or the death of the liberal arts,” Daniel Lugo, president of Queens University of Charlotte and the session’s moderator, said to the three female executives on the stage with him. “I’m still a big believer.”