Liberal arts colleges continue redefining their historical missions or flat-out disappearing – a trend that threatens to diminish America’s renowned higher education system, argues a study co-authored by a College of Education scholar Roger Baldwin. Of the 212 liberal arts colleges identified in a landmark 1990 study, only 130 remain in their traditional form...
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Education scholars have been debating the future of the classic, four-year liberal arts education model, especially as the United States struggles to create and fill jobs suitable for the global economy. The number of liberal arts colleges has been on the decline for more than a decade, according to research by professor of higher...
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A new study by HALE professors Roger Baldwin and Matthew R. Wawrzynski suggests part-time adjunct instructors are more likely to use ineffective teaching techniques because of the quality of their comparative working conditions. Read more of the details and debate in the Chronicle of Higher Education article. The results are set to be published...
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