Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

The University of Mary Washington, a public liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia, has received the largest gift in its 115-year history - a $30 million estate gift from alum Irene Piscopo Rodgers. Rodgers had previously created eight Alvey scholarships.

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Marcia J. Ballinger, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Lorain County Community College is the community’s college, providing pathways to rewarding careers in all fields, including liberal arts and the humanities. Students in these academic areas may also benefit from enrichment experiences through the Charlene Moskal-Burges and Dr. Bill Burges Scholarship Fund.

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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. Moving quickly as Gov. The state university system’s Board of Governors requested the money. Read more on Herald Tribune.

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The PIE News

JULY 6, 2023

However, speaking with The PIE News , Wiseman noted that employer and student demand for STEM education and training, does not mean universities will necessarily move away from traditional liberal arts programs.

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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

MARCH 21, 2023

“There are challenges facing higher education institutions, particularly smaller liberal arts colleges in the Northeast, from which SFC is not immune. Francis College will continue to honor current athletic scholarships. Salamone, chair of the St. Francis College Board of Trustees, said in a statement.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Further, most independent colleges offer a liberal arts education, which recent scholarship has indicated to be associated with increased well-being and participation in civic life as well as improved long-term financial outcomes.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 18, 2023

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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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

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. But at the beginning of this new fall semester, colleges across the country are reporting big turnarounds.

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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? Dr. Mary Dana Hinton Yet at about the same time, my institution, Hollins University, began the HOPE scholarship program.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

After announcing its founding in 2021, the University of Austin has won approval to issue liberal arts degrees and is now accepting undergraduate students for fall 2024, The Texas Tribune reports. Its first 100-member class will receive a four-year, full-tuition scholarship , the Austin American-Statesman reports.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Also receiving the Spotlight Award was liberal arts institution Cedar Crest College , Pennsylvania, for its Carmen Twillie Ambar Sophomore Expedition. Congrats #AlbanyState for receiving the 2023 NAFSA Senator Paul Simon Spotlight Award, for its Curriculum Internationalization initiative.

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Creatrix Campus

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Example: As the admissions director for a liberal arts college, your aim is to boost international student enrollment by 15% in two years, focusing on business and tech programs. For instance, highlight scholarship opportunities for academically strong students. Adjust your strategies based on what works best. How to Implement?

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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. which we know today.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., The college also provides a $20,000 annual Queer Leadership scholarship to qualifying students. is a unit of Bard College in New York and is designed as an early college program for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students.

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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.

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University Business

JULY 5, 2023

They stressed how enriched their liberal arts education has become due to their “dynamic array of socioeconomic, religious, intellectual, geographic, and racial diversity” since different voices are at once challenging and ultimately elevating student perspectives.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Gretchen Whitmer is giving higher education in her state a potential boost in enrollment by lowering the age requirement to 21 for Michigan Reconnect , a scholarship opportunity available to associate’s degree and certificate-seeking individuals.

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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. In May, the state approved a $34 million initiative to provide scholarships, begin building repairs, and strengthen school operations, Politico reports. “We million a year, the Citrus County Chronicle reports.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Black women are missing from feminist scholarship and we’re also missing from African American scholarship because those tend to focus on White women and Black men. Clark Atlanta University and Spelman College are the only HBCUs that offer a major or degree program.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While SVU is technically a secular private liberal arts college, it identifies with the values of the LDS Church. Cordon recently spent five years as the Young Women general president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

Known for the joyful spirit he has brought to the private liberal arts college, he will fit in well helping build community connections, according to the university. One of his first tasks will be helping raise money for a $25 million scholarship fund. Fundraising makes sense for Everett.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Lastly, we will begin to share our best practices through a national convening of other private liberal arts HBCUs and Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs), thus being able to move the needle in the area of engineering, in regards to increasing the number of diverse talents going into the field." "The $1.5M investment will?provide

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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. ” According to his university biography, Joeckel’s scholarship is about issues of importance to Christian higher education (and others).

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Dr. Missy Alexander

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

AAC&U has been a leader in developing strong arguments for liberal arts education. AAC&U continuously publishes material that explores and solidifies the connections between what employers are looking for and the role of strong liberal arts education.

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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 No one thought it was really going to happen,” she said. “I Corlew was anxious about finding another school with her major.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The new president will lead Wagner College, where he will be expected to help transform and grow the liberal arts college. Warner cultivated excitement around RIC’s options by introducing a new cybersecurity center and creating an attractive dual enrollment scholarship.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 24, 2023

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. Dr. Miriam Wallace, professor of English and gender studies at New College, said Villada’s scholarship is helping New College grow.

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University Business

JUNE 23, 2023

Thus, Money focuses on creating a “best college” ranking that highlights a mix of small liberal arts colleges and big-brand universities rather than regurgitating the handful of prestigious institutions that applicants and their families are already well-aware of.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 18, 2023

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. Finally, we only explored Ph.D.-granting

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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. As a modern liberal-arts university, Susquehanna’s culture has been shaped by its Lutheran Heritage in important ways. For centuries, faith and reason have met in the world’s great universities.

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University Business

OCTOBER 16, 2023

.” More from UB: President’s corner: Urgency for David Wippman as he shares his last dance at Hamilton College DePauw embraces consortiums, cost-cutting and new revenue models DePauw is implementing a five-year strategic plan that promises to revamp its liberal arts education model.

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Susquehanna President's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2022

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.

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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 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.

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