The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

Universities are “uniquely placed” to address workforce gaps and should effectively become “skills brokers”, a new report says. By developing knowledge workers that industry needs, universities can maintain their mission of enabling strong graduate outcomes, the paper from Nous Group indicates.

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University Business

MAY 10, 2024

Soka University of America is comparatively young standing next to other historic institutions that have racked up a century’s worth of legacy and alumni. But questions around “how old” an institution is don’t interest President Ed Feasel. It’s not like how I taught at other institutions.”

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The Exploring Transfer program at Vassar College is a summer intensive that immerses currently enrolled community college students in an academically rigorous environment, providing vital support and encouragement so they can ultimately continue their education at a competitive four-year institution. This is about equity. This is about. —

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University Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Ron DeSantis seeks to overhaul New College of Florida, lawmakers next week could funnel $15 million to the liberal-arts school for such things as hiring faculty and providing scholarships. The state university system’s Board of Governors requested the money. Read more on Herald Tribune.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Awarded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, the college has announced the creation of the Institute for Race and Social Transformation. “We Rhodes is a national liberal arts college where inclusive excellence and building a culture of belonging are central to our mission.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The enormous potential of transfer from community colleges to four-year institutions presents a ray of hope among the pandemic-related enrollment declines, which have particularly affected students from marginalized backgrounds. Supporting transfer access to independent colleges has broad implications for strengthening equity in our society.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Internationalisation activities at US campuses have been mapped in a new report, which suggests that, although not a priority for the majority of institutions, many are looking to rebound activities in the years ahead. The latest Mapping Internationalization on U.S. Photo: ACE. A further 30% said it would stay about the same.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

As this year’s applicants and families make a decision, I am at my wits’ end about how to address a persistent problem: outsized attention devoted to so-called “best” or “top” colleges and universities. For the record, the “ top four ” institutions serve approximately 77,500 students combined. My university’s endowment is.0059

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The University of Arkansas, for example, has welcomed a record number of students this school year, topping 32,000. Out in the Midwest, the smaller liberal arts-focused Wheaton College missed its 2019 enrollment mark by only 20 students after suffering from a series of budget cuts last year.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. That amount will be spread out across its 37 member institutions.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Additionally, half of the six presidents to be hired or retired hail from an institution with strong religious ties. While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Brennan, chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, according to a school statement.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A Historically Black College and University has been included in a list of institutions receiving prestigious internationalisation awards for the first time. Also honoured was Hispanic Serving Institution Arizona State University – designated a HSI by the department for education in 2022 – for its Afghan Women’s Education Project.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

“When I was in Japan, I had to accept the fact that I was going to be one of a few in this profession, but also in Japan, percentage wise,” says Dabney, an associate professor of politics and Japanese studies at Earlham College, a private liberal arts college in Richmond, Indiana. Dr. Dyron K. He holds a B.A.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

With Gen Z students loving non-degree pathways , the next logical line of thinking for some degree-granting colleges and universities is what they can do to enlighten potential students of their institutions’ benefits. The hub is set to offer one-on-one spaces for students and success coaches to connect and study.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Money Magazine has revamped its college ranking system into a star-tier list , and with it, it has named 34 colleges and universities to its five-star category. Money analyzed these institutions across 26 data points, then organized them into three categories. People want to know: Is it worth my time and my money?”

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

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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University Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Over the next five years, New College of Florida plans to become the best liberal arts college in America. New College’s wish is the legislature’s command The university has racked up a tab since New College’s overhaul in January. We are investing in New College,” said state Rep. Jason Shoaf.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

The two pieces, one by David French, the political commentator and New York Times opinion columnist, and another by Brookings Institution fellows Emily Markovich Morris and Ghulam Omar Qargha, argue that without a well-defined sense of purpose, individuals and institutions inevitably lose their way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Over the past decade, some historically Black institutions have developed women’s and gender studies programs and embedded courses within general education curriculum. Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

The Supreme Court’s long-awaited decisions on two cases that would implicate the fate of race-conscious admissions at public and private institutions’ undergraduate levels finally came out last week. But Wesleyan University President Michael S.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The demands placed on colleges and universities have evolved beyond providing a world-renowned education. “We’re seeing all kinds of votes of no confidence, all kinds of faculty uproar about changes due to business factors,” says Andrea Young, vice president for finance and administration at DePauw University (Ind.).

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Hired CUNY Hunter College President Nancy Cantor (Source: The City University of New York) Nancy Cantor – CUNY Hunter College CUNY Hunter College just gained a higher education heavyweight in Nancy Cantor, who brings her wealth of presidential experience to the New York City system’s largest institution. “Dr. .

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

Image: Since the Taliban suspended the rights of Afghan women to pursue higher education last month, many American higher education institutions and leaders have decried the ban. 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.

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

The three presidents announcing their retirement served their respective institutions for more than a decade, helping transform academic programming and spur interest from the community. University leaders consider it a turnaround and are riding with McDonnell for the future.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No Others, like Mills College, merged with bigger institutions. No one thought it was really going to happen,” she said. “I

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 21, 2023

Rural-serving institutions (RSIs) face many more unique challenges than most urban schools and persist, comprising more than 25% of all U.S. colleges and universities. Appointing too many alumni members complicates the board’s ability to view the institution objectively. But they must stay proactive and transparent.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Image: An English professor at Palm Beach Atlantic University said his teaching contract has been put on hold after complaints about his instruction on race and racism. 15, I concluded a class and walked out of the classroom to find the provost and the dean of the school of liberal arts and sciences waiting for me,” Joeckel wrote.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

granting universities. Large-scale quantitative data such as these provide an invaluable evidence-based context about the areas of scholarship in which institutions are investing new faculty lines, a matter of interest to deans of graduate schools and provosts alike. granting universities in the humanities decreased by 16.8

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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. They have over 400 member institutions. ·

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

psychology and theatre performance, University of Evansville; MFA, theatre pedagogy, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Ph.D., psychology and theatre performance, University of Evansville; MFA, theatre pedagogy, Virginia Commonwealth University; and Ph.D., He gets us thinking about things differently.”

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Susquehanna President's Blog

APRIL 15, 2022

In their best times, they have borne a commitment to ecumenicalism, and each has a rich history of scholarship and teaching. For centuries, faith and reason have met in the world’s great universities. The institution and first building were named the Missionary Institute. Degenstein Foundation.

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

This morning I was reading about some really great projects being led by the American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ). AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. They provide a wealth of helpful information that helps me think through campus initiatives.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Image: When Patricia McGuire, president of Trinity Washington University, was speaking at a conference on Catholic higher education last month, she referred to the university, a women’s institution in Washington, D.C., When she became president of Trinity in 1989, the university’s future seemed dire.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In my view, a college education shouldn’t just cultivate students’ cognitive, analytic and problem-solving abilities or expand their content knowledge or merely instill the cultural literacies that we associate with a rich liberal arts education. Yet few secular institutions strive to actually achieve those objectives.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

In March 2021, the chair of the Board of Trustees of Becker College announced that the institution would close its doors due to financial difficulties accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Clark University had been a neighbor to Becker for nearly 135 years. There was a clear strategic fit.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation We are always eager to hear new ways universities are creating affordable online programs at scale. These two leaders from Georgetown University and Coursera recently announced a new online bachelor’s completion program. Kelly and Betty agreed to answer our questions about this new program.

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