Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Image: Andriyana Baran spent the 2020–21 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in the United States, serving as a teaching assistant and helping to develop online learning curricula for the University of Kansas at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. colleges and universities. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). This significant grant benefits its 37 member colleges and universities, including Spelman. Stryker has served as a Spelman trustee since 1997.

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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. Before becoming the private liberal arts school’s second president, he was a founding faculty member and became the dean of faculty after SUA graduated its first class.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

First-generation students and those from underrepresented groups and disadvantaged backgrounds are given priority in the application process for the five-week summer program at Vassar, a private liberal arts institution in New York state. Scholarships are awarded to cover tuition and room and board.

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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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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

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. I mean that quite literally…” the university stated on X, formerly known as Twitter.

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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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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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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Yet efforts to improve transfer among policy makers, funders and institutional leaders overwhelmingly focus on the transitions between two- and four-year institutions in the public sector and overlook the important role of independent not-for-profit colleges and universities, which now enroll almost 20 percent of community college transfer students.

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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

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. As another example, Princeton University announced that it would be tuition-free for families whose incomes are less than $100,000.

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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.

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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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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

More from UB: Middle East conflict continues to stir backlash, compromise safety across college campuses Hires Bonnie Cordon – Southern Virginia University The Southern Virginia University Board of Trustees unanimously approved hiring Bonnie Cordon as the school’s 10th president.

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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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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

JULY 5, 2023

But Wesleyan University President Michael S. “By using a reductive sense of how race is dealt with in college admissions, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court has challenged the University’s ability to select and enroll a racially diverse class.”

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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

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. million a year, the Citrus County Chronicle reports. Jason Shoaf.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

“At the time I was quite unhappy that in 2015 we had so few HBCUs investing in this very important topic,” says Newson-Horst, professor of English at Morgan State University and director of the women, gender, and sexuality (WGS) studies program. Hollis, then dean of the College of Liberal Arts. Delaware State’s “Hear Me Roar!”

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 8, 2023

As for the idea that educational institutions require a distinct mission with well-defined implications policy and practice, what we see are campuses – with the exception of military academies or religious or small liberal arts colleges -- with multiple, complex, often conflicting and competing, functions and responsibilities.

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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. 33% $57,000 $3,600 70% Brown University (R.I.) 4% $86,500 $13,300 93% Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (N.Y.)

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University Business

MARCH 8, 2024

Hired Joseph McDonnell – University of Maine at Farmington President Joseph McDonnell (Source: University of Maine at Farmington) Joseph McDonnell initially filled the University of Maine at Farmington’s president role as an interim. Stepping down Wiebe Boer – Calvin University (Mich.)

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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 Anything from shared services all the way up to a merger or acquisition.”

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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. campuses, partnerships with universities in nearby countries or expanded access to online classes. “Scholarships to study at a U.S. “Scholarships to study at a U.S.

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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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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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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. They and successive generations of the Weis family have provided generous philanthropic and leadership support to the university.

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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. including college and university counselors.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 9, 2023

Thompson, professor of mathematics at the University of California, Davis, argued against mandatory diversity statements in her state university system’s hiring processes, which she described as a “political litmus test” akin to McCarthyist “loyalty oaths” of the 1950s disavowing Communism.

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