Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 10, 2023

Officials at Oxford College of Emory University, one of the university’s two liberal arts colleges, in 2019 identified a need for a more positive campus climate. Image: Campus climate work affects all members of an institution’s community—but also requires a buy-in and intentional effort from all parties.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

William & Mary has long had a liberal arts orientation and strong tradition of shared governance. They seek rigorous academics and associate that with strong STEM programs in a liberal arts context as the top characteristics of a great university. And they need to prepare themselves for future work, in relevant ways.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Here it is: Newsletters and Magazines I start each weekday with a review of these three: Inside Higher Ed publishes a daily newsletter of current events in higher education. Trusteeship is a magazine published by the Association of Governing Boards. Roth, Michael: Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Offering courses on subjects ranging from chemistry to linguistics, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Liberal Arts & Sciences encompasses 37 academic departments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

Why be upset about this when my career is dedicated to ensuring that students, especially women and other marginalized groups, have access to an excellent liberal arts education? In effect, they can receive a free liberal arts education and all the resources and opportunities it provides.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

Data available on the website show that unlike most liberal arts colleges, Adrian’s enrollment has boomed, increasing from under 1,000 students in 2005 to roughly 1,900 today. “Small private liberal arts colleges aren’t for everybody, but they work really well for the kids that need them.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Virtually all institutions—certainly all liberal arts schools—have language in their mission statements about turning out critical thinkers and lifelong learners.   A: This question can really only be answered for each institution individually.   Yet there are few courses dedicated to doing this explicitly. 

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

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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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” But detractors of Oubré and the board have questioned the authenticity of the concerns, alleging that the president and trustees are trying to stifle criticism of a leader they believe doesn’t have a plan to turn around slumping enrollment at the small liberal arts college. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2023

Brent Thomas , interim provost and dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emporia State University, in Kansas, has been named provost and vice president for academic affairs on a permanent basis. Editorial Tags: College administration New presidents Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

” The powerhouse group of five panelists included two longtime campus CIOs, one newly appointed CIO, one vice president for digital innovation at a liberal arts college and one émigré from higher ed who now works for Amazon Web Services. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Two years in, Canton is preparing a proposal that outlines the reasons for making African American studies a department, and the benefit it would bring to the university, to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in which it is situated, and to the community. The college’s dean, Dr. David E.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Of the top five majors represented in the report, only business saw increases from last year, while health professions, liberal arts, biological and biomedical sciences, and engineering all continued to drop. percent and 0.2 percent, respectively. Computer science, the sixth most popular major, saw significant growth, increasing by 10.4

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The rate was a bit higher among liberal arts colleges: an increase of 0.33 Projecting ahead at these rates of change, the percentage of underrepresented tenure-line faculty at liberal arts colleges in 2060 would be 19 percentage points behind the general population, compared to a gap of 22 percentage points across institutions studied.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bloomfield—a small private liberal arts college in Bloomfield, N.J., Like many small liberal arts colleges, Bloomfield has dealt with dwindling enrollment for years. Going forward, Bloomfield will be known as Bloomfield College of Montclair State University. A Plea for Help. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately. We stepped back into the classroom. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 14, 2023

in educational administration (higher education leadership) from Indiana State University; a Master of Liberal Arts in African American studies from Temple; a Master of Science in Education in educational psychology and guidance (college student personnel) from EIU; a B.A. Williams-Goliday holds a Ph.D.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

But a combination of competitive pressures, demographic patterns and accreditation requirements in one of its most job skill–focused undergraduate fields has led the private liberal arts institution to create its first-ever master’s degree—and to consider adding others. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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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.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s been a rough decade for Vermont’s small liberal arts colleges. “That’s an advantage that we have that you wouldn’t necessarily see in a small liberal arts college in the middle of the Midwest with many other competing schools.” “I’m very optimistic.”

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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., Students obtain essential networking and community-building skills while developing a sense of leadership that is not informed by “heteronormative and cisnormative practices,” says John Weinstein, PhD, the college’s provost and vice president.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

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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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Two institutions — Lafayette College, a private liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), a public health sciences university — are setting examples for others as they spearhead projects from Banned Books Week events to more in-depth actions like developing a strategic DEI plan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. The majority of students pursuing the WGS minor at Morgan State are not pursuing majors in the College of Liberal Arts, which is home to the program. Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

Miller believes private liberal arts colleges, as well as community colleges, are trying harder to recruit male students in particular, in part by offering more sports participation options. ” He said more analysis would be needed to understand why the data showed an increase in male students. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 6, 2023

Emily Burke, senior director of workforce development and applied practice at ASPPH and another author of the study, said that focusing on public health at the undergraduate level is in some ways akin to pursuing the liberal arts. The pandemic seems to have inspired more undergrads to study public health. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The small, private liberal arts college in New York announced Wednesday that it would cease operations after the spring semester, citing financial concerns exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and inflation that irreparably harmed the nearly 200-year-old institution. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

“It is absolutely true that if you have a STEM-focused community college and a broad liberal arts university, then you want different criteria for board members of those two types of institutions,” Wyner said. Pending legislation aims to change that. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Brooke Vick, PhD The organization is a consortium of senior diversity officers from 36 private liberal arts institutions across the U.S. who exchange ideas and best practices to implement equitable and inclusive strategies on their campuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Ultimately, though, “if you want to be president of a liberal arts college, you’ve got to be able to deal with cantankerous faculty members. You want to see how a president responds to tough questions and to various personalities at a college. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2023

He earned an associate degree in liberal arts from Orange County Community College, a bachelor’s degree in history from Vassar College, and a Ph.D. Burgos is an expert when it comes to U.S. Latino, African American, and sports history. He is a professor of history at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 6, 2023

Other initiatives at Belmont include a recent collaboration with Fisk University, a historically Black liberal arts college in Nashville, to promote social justice through “exposure to civil rights and social justice movements across Middle Tennessee.” Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?:

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 3, 2023

” Lafayette, a private Pennsylvania liberal arts college with roughly 2,700 students, currently has no deans supervising its four academic divisions: humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering. It’s adding them July 1. Newsletter Order: 0 Disable left side advertisement?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

A project at Montclair State University (MSU), a public research university in New Jersey, focuses on reviving the Native American Munsee language, while faculty and students at Haverford College, a private liberal arts school in Pennsylvania, are working in Oaxaca, Mexico, to safeguard Zapotec languages.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Another mathematics professor at a liberal arts college who has served on the American Mathematical Society Council spoke on the condition of anonymity, as she was not authorized to speak in that capacity. (Disclosure: The author is a mathematician with a track record of efforts aimed at diversifying the math community.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Meredith College, a private women’s liberal arts institution in Raleigh, N.C., Image: Some colleges and universities have offered mental health days or experimented with work-from-home policies to address burnout and low employee morale during the pandemic. Is this diversity newsletter?: Is this Career Advice newsletter?:

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