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College students follow the money into STEM education, killing off struggling liberal arts programs

University Business

Lindsey Ash says she likely would have sought a liberal arts degree in speech therapy — until a high school class steered her toward science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Read more from The Washington Times.

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Engagement overseas ‘integral’ in US plans

The PIE News

Students of business, management, marketing and related subjects, and liberal arts and sciences, general studies and humanities students were most likely to be joining study abroad programs, it found.

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Growth in assistant professorships is uneven (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

But this is not the case in education, in social sciences and in particular in the humanities, all of which are characterized by stable or declining demand for assistant professors. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8 percent between 2011 and 2021. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting is growing.

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Making Theater More Accessible

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.” New College’s liberal arts structure allows students with an interest in theater to take a course, whether that’s in performance, dance, or technical theater. That comes directly from me being a Latinx artist,” said Villada.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? What, then, would it take to achieve a greater balance between scholarship and teaching?

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Alphabet Soup

Susquehanna President's Blog

. · AACC – American Association of Community Colleges – One of “The Six” Higher-Education Organizations in Washington, DC; they represent almost 1,200 institutions · AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business – This is the leading accrediting body for business schools in the U.S.

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Helping Afghan women back into higher ed

Inside Higher Ed

A few are going further, asking what they can do to help Afghan women regain control of their academic futures, whether through scholarships to U.S. “Scholarships to study at a U.S. “These are American seminar-style courses, using the best of the liberal arts classroom in an online forum,” Becker said.