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Thank you, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, for this feature! Discussions around how Gen Z will continue to shape politics in our country are so important! I want to thank Dr. Kimberly McCall, Associate Dean at Lipscomb University and Madison Schomer, senior at Lipscomb University, for a thoughtful and engaging conversation about Gen Z and the future. You can read our discussion in the following link! https://lnkd.in/eX55mg_z

Join us in Nashville this November! 🎉We’re thrilled to invite you to the THE Liberal Arts Summit on 18-20 November 2024, hosted in partnership with Vanderbilt University. Delegates will have the opportunity to hear from leading voices from higher education and other sectors to reimagine the future of liberal arts education in an increasingly digital world. Our dynamic agenda will unpack the following themes: ➡Reinventing liberal arts in the digital age⬅ How can liberal arts lead the charge for a collaborative learning model where creativity meets empirical reasoning and the real – and imagined – impacts of AI? How can liberal arts programmes demonstrate the unique value of the liberal arts to communities, employers and other partners beyond academia? ➡Fostering interdisciplinary innovation: Merging arts and sciences⬅ Moving beyond the outdated dichotomy of arts and sciences, how can we use the array of insights from the liberal arts and integrate them to emphasise their enduring value in understanding problems and pioneering solutions, so that we can both adapt to and drive change in our communities? How can we use interdisciplinary approaches to emphasise the value of a liberal arts mindset in pioneering solutions and adapting swiftly to changes throughout our communities? 👀Keep your eyes peeled for more exciting agenda updates and speaker announcements in the coming months. Take advantage of our super early bird ticket offer and book your place now: https://lnkd.in/eFibCbND #THEliberalarts #timeshighereducation #highereducation #liberalarts #innovation #interdisciplinaryinnovation #artsandsciences #digitalage

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On the sidelines of our #THEeurope summit this week, university leaders from around the world kept a watchful eye on campus unrest in the US. The protests that have flared at Columbia University and spread to multiple other campuses have brought a global gaze, following the Congressional hearings into anti-Semitism that had earlier forced the resignations of the presidents of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania. As our North America Editor Paul Basken reports, Mike Johnson, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, has now called for the resignation of the Columbia president, Baroness Shafik. Her appearance before the education committee of the US House had the dual effect of failing to mollify hostile Republican members, and alienating significant numbers of both faculty and students back on campus. But whatever her missteps, and the undoubted discomfort at Columbia, the moment is being seen as yet another escalation in the campaign by US conservatives to use campus protests over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to weaken academic freedom and university autonomy across the country. Our story on this week's developments (which will no doubt be overtaken by events swiftly) is here: https://lnkd.in/eaxrn4Mk Also from Times Higher Education today is this fascinating analysis from former University of California, Berkeley president Nicholas Dirks, now president of the The New York Academy of Sciences, reflecting on a deteriorating relationship between faculty and administrators that he believes is making US universities close to ungovernable. "In recent years, the relationship between administrators and faculty has taken on elements of class war," he writes. Nick provides a typically insightful historical analysis, as well as bringing that up to date with ideas about how this impasse could be eased. "Structure precedes agency here, since it seems likely that neither faculty nor administrators will be able to change the way they think about the university until their institutional location is radically reset, alongside consequent identities and loyalties," he writes. "The sharp divisions between administrators and faculty were created for compelling reasons, but there are equally compelling reasons now for both groups to rethink not just how they must work together but the protocols of university governance across the board – in departments and schools internally and in relation to donors and governments." Nick's analysis is my recommended reading for the week: https://lnkd.in/e4Xy5RHX

A helpful quick read for anyone in the higher ed world!

At the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, we bring a humanistic lens to innovative and interdisciplinary research, championing innovation in research, teaching and transformative educational experiences. Explore our Dean's Report to learn more about how we are building momentum. bit.ly/3SCDZZI

🗞 New Blog post: Innovation in a Changing Funding Landscape – Part 2. This follow-up post explores how budget cuts in university capital spending can drive innovation in campus development. It highlights successful strategies like the Heart of Campus project at Glasgow Caledonian University, the experimental teaching spaces at King's College London, and pandemic-inspired concepts such as shared spaces and virtual learning, all of which emphasise the growing need for adaptable and flexible campus designs. 📅 This is our second post over a series that will explore current sector-wide issues. https://lnkd.in/ePF_vzmc

Towards a Civic University: Unpacking the Role of PhD Study in Personal Development, Professional Practice, and the World We Live In Hannes Read draws on the evidence review from the Review of the Economic and Social Value Produced through Funding PhD Students report as part of the National Civic Impact Accelerator. https://lnkd.in/ezqkBRmz

This is inexcusable.

This is tragic, but unfortunately not unexpected. As an alumni I have fond memories of my time at UArts and the amazing opportunities and people I've been connected with throughout my time there. I've met life-long friends in various fields of art, coworkers and collaborators I still know and love to this day, and several of my professors there are top-notch and fostered us into highly functional and successful members of the professional art landscape. However, as a professional and guild member acting in Philadelphia still I and my peers have had plenty of opportunities in the last few years to speak with the current and previous graduating classes at events throughout the Northeast. From the insanely high tuition increases, misappropriation and miscalculations of student credits, prioritization of modern facilities rather than student curriculum and networking, on top of the current shifting perception in value of a 4-year BFA as opposed to on-site trade mentorship with a studio/company… the financial losses and dwindling student body are direct consequences of prioritizing their bottom line over their students for the last 15 years. Sending so much love and hope to the current class aiming to graduate and the students still enrolled who are now shifting to new schools. I've had the great pleasure of getting to see what some of them are doing specifically in the Illustration and Animation departments, and I could not be happier to see so much talent bursting from them. Remember, that is coming internally from you: Your talents, skills, and passion to create. College is a vehicle for refining your ability to effectively use that art to support your livelihood and have a fulfilling career. Let your experiences fuel your motivations. Know that the institution does not make you, but it is what you make of the institution that matters. Any of the major Philadelphia Art Schools are capable of producing phenomenal juggernauts in the industry, because those individuals had that in them from the very beginning.