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Penned by Hiram College President Lori Varlotta, Ph.D., a Planning for Higher Education feature article takes readers through the planning and implementation of Hiram College’s New Liberal Arts™.

Hiram College’s “new liberal arts” and academic redesign continue to garner regional and national attention while sparking healthy dialog about the challenges small, tuition-dependent liberal colleges face in balancing liberal arts with today’s market-driven majors.

On May 15, 2018, Dr. Judy Muyskens, the Interim Dean of Hiram College, presents a series of recommendations regarding the academic redesign to faculty-at-large and to two important shared governance groups: the Academic Program Committee (APC) and the Appointment, Tenure, and Promotion Committee (ATP).

Hiram College is thrilled to announce a new partnership with the Vasque division of Red Wing Shoes. As an exciting extension to the emerging Tech and Trek program every 2017 full-time traditional college student will receive a top-end pair of hiking boots. A partial corporate gift from Red Wing Shoes plus private donor support will fund the boots.

Hiram College as The New Liberal Arts™: Integrated Study, High-Impact Experiences, Mindful Technology™ by Lori Varlotta. Published April 5, 2017, Higher Education Today

Hiram College announced the largest single gift ever made to the college. The $2.1M gift from Dean Scarborough, Class of ’77, and his wife Janice Bini will launch a transformational mobile technology initiative called Tech and Trek. The program will merge classroom learning with 21st Century mobile technology by deploying iPad Pro, Apple Pencil, and keyboard bundle to each of its full-time traditional college students, faculty and staff. Hiram is the first 4-year college or university in Ohio to fully adopt a college-wide Apple mobile education strategy of this kind to ensure graduates are prepared academically, socially and technologically for the world they will live and work in.

Like so many U.S. institutions of higher learning, Hiram College has a long history of fostering intellectual excellence and social responsibility in a diverse community of students, faculty, and staff. At Hiram, our very mission calls us to face the urgent challenges of our times. As I have traveled to places near and far, I proudly see and hear of many faculty, students, staff, and alumni who commit their lives to doing exactly that. Hiram has long respected and protected the dignity of individuals of any nationality, religion, or social, gender, or cultural orientation. To this we will be true.