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Showing 1 to 20 of 220 for “"Liberal Arts"”.
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The role of professional advising in the liberal arts
… role of professional academic advising in the liberal arts. This study focused on the impact of professional academic advising in the liberal arts. This study also focused on the extent to which professional administrators are involved in supporting the professional academic advisors. This was …
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A financial taxonomy of private liberal arts colleges II
… Carnegie Commission's classification category of Liberal Arts Colleges II. This study was designed to develop a more definitive taxonomy for the private colleges in this category based on their financial characteristics. The institutional population for this study consisted of 499 private colleges …
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BEYOND THE CLASSROOM: UNVEILING LIBERAL ARTS STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF INTERNSHIPS
… of internships by seven students enrolled in a liberal arts program at an urban four-year R1 research institution; the study aims to understand why these students elected to participate in internships for academic credit when they are not required—Moreover, it explores how characteristics of the …
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Reimagining the Liberal Arts in an Age of Technoscientific Progress
… study will investigate the impact of dismantling liberal arts curriculum during an era of dramatic technoscientific progress. I will explore the development of the posthuman focusing specifically on the areas of virtual reality and biomedicine. As I unravel the implications that virtual reality …
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A Study of Audiovisual Programs in Selected Liberal Arts Colleges
… audiovisual services and programs in selected liberal arts colleges, (2) to identify pertinent problems in such programs by comparing the programs with a standard guideline, and (3) to develop recommendations for an effective audiovisual program in the form of guidelines to enrich the …
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Ratio analysis : a model for private liberal arts colleges and universities
Ratio analysis is a financial analysis technique used by the corporate sector and public colleges and universities. Private colleges and universities have been largely unsuccessful utilizing this technique because of the varied accounting techniques used by the private institutions. This study …
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Achieving intercultural knowledge through global awareness programming at liberal arts college
… tool for increasing intercultural knowledge at a liberal arts college. The study asked the following question: do internationally themed campus-wide events increase student interest in, and appreciation of, difference?</p> <p>Students in this study were involved in two activities: a semester-long …
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Collaboration between student affairs and academic affairs at liberal arts institutions
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The Construction of a Classical Curriculum for a Liberal Arts College
… is not conducive to the cultivation of the fine arts. Since development began on the Eastern Seaboard and was extended westward only after the lapse of many years, education was on a fairly high plane in the East when the Middle West was being settled. The classical languages gained a firm …
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Considerations Of A Tuition Reset At Small, Non-Selective Liberal Arts Colleges
<p>Small, non-selective liberal arts colleges have been increasingly caught in a cycle of deepening discount rates to ensure student enrollments while raising tuition rates to earn more funds from students paying the full cost. However, continually discounting tuitions to attract students can lead …
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Adult learning at a private liberal arts university in Indiana : a case study
… specialized adult programs at a small private liberal arts university in Indiana with approximately 4,100 undergraduate students. The case study reviewed offerings, underpinnings, and decision making regarding these programs. Through the lenses of andragogy, and the specific needs, learning …
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Participation in a study-abroad program and persistence at a liberal arts university.
… in a study-abroad program and persistence at a liberal arts university. The theoretical basis for the study was Tinto's Theory of Individual Departure. The independent variable of interest, also known as the treatment, was participation in the University of Dallas Rome Program during the …
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"We're all Horacians": Listening to international students at an American liberal arts college
… lives at Horace College, a Midwestern liberal arts college, by mapping and analyzing the self-reported stories and the perceptions of my informants. Based on nine months of fieldwork, I explore the particular contours of internationalization, international student inclusion, and …
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Liberal Arts Colleges During the Great Recession: Examining Organizational Adaptation and Institutional Change
<p>Liberal arts colleges strived to adapt to environmental shifts at the turn of the twenty-first century and remain relevant in American society while the Great Recession of 2007 compounded their challenges and created new fiscal and enrollment burdens, which forced these institutions to confront …
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A conceptualization of social responsibility among faculty of a private liberal arts college
… of 15 faculty members at a Midwestern private liberal arts college. Key findings indicated that social responsibility at the college was found in the collective focus on how best to develop students’ (graduates’, citizens’) cognitive and moral understandings and their subsequent propensities to …
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Organizational Fit of Non-Academic Administrators of Color at Small Liberal Arts Institutions
… groups with organizational fit at small liberal arts institutions. The purpose of this study was to understand and describe how administrators of color at small liberal arts institutions experience organizational fit. The conceptual framework for this study was Jackson's (2004a) …
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