College Inc. Archive: Liberal Arts
Guest post: Student engagement is the key 'fix'
Here is a guest post from Karen R. Lawrence, president of Sarah Lawrence College. She writes in response to the story on fixing higher education that was published in Sunday's Washington Post Magazine. The Cost of Getting Higher Education Into...
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Daniel de Vise
| February 24, 2011; 8:52 AM ET |
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Administration, Liberal Arts, Pedagogy, Students
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Randolph-Macon offers 'degree guarantee'
Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Va., today announced a Four-Year Degree Guarantee: Students who follow a few institutional policies are promised a degree in four years, or else the college will waive tuition until the student has finished. With the guarantee,...
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Daniel de Vise
| February 22, 2011; 5:35 PM ET |
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Attainment, Finance, Liberal Arts, Privates
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ACTA's Neal: Student 'choice' has run amok
Here is a guest post from Anne D. Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a District nonprofit that has criticized the academy for requiring too little essential knowledge of students completing degrees. In a prior post,...
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Daniel de Vise
| February 8, 2011; 12:19 PM ET |
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Academically Adrift: Ekman responds to ACTA's Neal
This guest post is from Richard Ekman, president of the Council of Independent Colleges, a group of more than 600 independent liberal arts schools and universities. A recent study by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on...
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Daniel de Vise
| January 27, 2011; 11:46 AM ET |
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Liberal Arts, Pedagogy, Research, Students
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Guest post: 'Academically Adrift,' indeed
Today's guest blogger is Anne D. Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonprofit that has challenged the academy on how little most colleges require their students to learn. A new study regrettably confirms what the...
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Daniel de Vise
| January 19, 2011; 10:57 AM ET |
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Liberal Arts, Pedagogy, Research, Students
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Some area schools rate well in general education
A sampling of local universities as measured in the gen-ed ratingsn a new set of college ratings that attempt to measure how well universities do in providing a general education. By that I mean ensuring students learn essential knowledge and skills in math, science, literature and composition, foreign language, history and economics.
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Daniel de Vise
| November 22, 2010; 11:34 AM ET |
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Liberal Arts, Pedagogy
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