Here is historian and Current writer Elizabeth Stice at The Front Porth Republic: If we believe that the liberal arts are great, we should act like it. A first step would be to stop trying to sell them as if […]
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What is going on at Dickinson College?
Michael Smerconish, a political independent who promotes civility and democratic discourse on his Sirius XM radio show and CNN television program, will no longer deliver the 2024 commencement address at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Here is Penn Live: Dickinson […]
Calvin University turns to football to help enrollment
The strategy appears to be working. Check out Liam Knox’s Inside Higher Education piece on small liberal arts colleges that are trying to “bet on new athletics programs” to attract students: Here is the section on Calvin University: Calvin University […]
A small Church of the Brethren liberal arts college in Kansas now has a $1.5 billion endowment
McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas: has 811 undegraduate students. The $1 billion came from an anonymous donor. The Wikipedia page lists billionaire Harry Stine as an alumnus. Could there be another “anonymous” donor with these kind of resources and a […]
Is Wellesley College still a women’s college?
In his 2017 book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, Washington University Law Professor John Inazu writes: Wellesley College, an all-women’s school, now confronts internal challenges around its growing transgender student population. Even though Wellesley admits only women, […]
Oberlin College pays more than $36 million to a local bakery to settle a racial profiling case
Here is Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times: Oberlin College, known as a bastion of progressive politics, said on Thursday that it would pay $36.59 million to a local bakery that said it had been defamed and falsely accused […]