Tag: Liberal Arts: Page 14

Sports

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Retiring Morgan State President Earl Richardson says his school has accomplished a great deal, but could do more with equitable support from the state.

September 2, 2009

Students

MARYLAND NEWS NUGGETS

The Old Line State has variety of institutions from Asian-serving and historically Black universities to a military academy and a plethora of community colleges.

September 2, 2009

Students

SPECTRUM : GETTING TO KNOW LISA MENZIES

No one has to teach Lisa A. Menzies about the significance of the nation’s 103 historically Black colleges and universities, and there is no need to remind her that these institutions produce some of the brightest students.

August 19, 2009

Leadership & Policy

ASSIGNMENTS GETTING TOUGHER FOR TRUSTEES

When Miami attorney Larry R. Handfi eld joined the board of trustees of Bethune-Cookman University, the oversight drill for trustees of the small, historically Black liberal arts institution in Florida was routine as it was for most schools around the country: ensure the president was not running amok with the school’s money or mission, help put out occasional “fires,” and secure or deliver a favor to and from the school on occasion.

August 19, 2009

Faculty & Staff

A Decline in Humanities

Doctorate students of color who are couched in humanities and liberal arts fields such as philosophy, communications, and ethnic studies could be especially impacted by college job cuts and hiring freezes.

August 11, 2009

Community Colleges

Top 100 – Undergraduate Degree Producers

We are coming to the end of an era! For many years we have been stating that the categories of race/ethnicity used in representing degree attainment will soon be changed.

June 24, 2009

Students

BOOK REVIEW: Creatiing a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites by Mitchell L. Stevens

It is not by chance that Dr. Mitchell L. Stevens, the author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of the Elites (Harvard University Press, 2007), appropriately chooses the word “class” in his book titles.

May 12, 2009

Community Colleges

It’s a Woman’s World (at least at these colleges)

The six women’s colleges in Massachusetts continue to innovate academically and financially to appeal to college-bound women.

February 18, 2009

Students

Spel-Bounding: All-Female Spelman College Ranks No. 2 in Sending Black Graduates On to Ph.D.s in Science and Math

Coming in second usually isn’t a big deal. But, when it is a tiny, historically Black women’s college placing No. 2 to a fellow HBCU with a student body just more than three times its size in a national science- and math-related survey, it seems that it is something to celebrate.

December 17, 2008

Community Colleges

The BABY BOOM ECHO

College demographics shift will test readiness for diversity, institutional savvy.

April 30, 2008

Home

Catholic college in Chicago shut down indefinitely after threats found in dorm

Officials of a Catholic liberal arts college shut it down indefinitely and told students to leave campus after threatening messages were found scrawled in the bathroom of a freshman dorm.

April 13, 2008

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Bridging Purpose With Practice in Teaching

To prepare students for lives of civic engagement and economic responsibility, the professoriate must create a modern education structure that integrates liberal arts teaching practices and professional training.

April 9, 2008