{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Small College America","title":"The Evolving Small College: Dr. Kate Morris President St. Lawrence University","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2036,"description":"Dean Hoke: Welcome to Small College America, a podcast dedicated to exploring the role and value of small colleges in the higher education landscape. I'm Dean Hoke, Co-Founder of Edu Alliance Group, and I’m joined by my co-host Kent Barnds, Executive Vice President of Augustana College, \n\nKent: Today, we're joined by Dr. Kate Morris, the 19th president of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Kate became president in 2021 after a long career at Butler University, where she taught psychology and later served as provost and vice president for academic affairs. She earned her bachelor's degree at Gettysburg College and her graduate degrees in social psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She also serves on Gettysburg's Board of Trustees, a connection that Kent, as a Gettysburg graduate, knows well.\nAnd Kate, we discovered something unusual: you took up figure skating in your late thirties and even learned ice dancing. Given St. Lawrence's hockey tradition, you may be more comfortable on the ice than most college presidents! Kate, welcome to Small College America.\nInterview Questions\n\nDean: Question 1: St. Lawrence, the North Country, and Your Journey\nKate, to begin, tell our listeners a little about St. Lawrence University and its community in Canton and the North Country. And how did your own journey—from teaching psychology at Butler to becoming a university president—bring you to St. Lawrence?\n\nKent: Question 2: Enrollment and Institutional Size\nSt. Lawrence, like many private liberal arts universities, has seen undergraduate enrollment decline from roughly 2,400 students a decade ago to around 1,800 today. As you look ahead, are you aiming to return to earlier enrollment levels, or do you envision a different long-term size for the university?\n\nDean: Question 3: Academic Innovation and the Liberal Arts Mission\nSt. Lawrence's mission is to provide an 'inspiring and demanding undergraduate education in the liberal arts.' Yet you've added majors...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/znlC7CX69qE7r5pUJE2XJslxrx-kQRnGqXvS0RvbqbM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kMjAw/ZTk5Nzg4NDA4ODlj/NjI1MzgwOTJjYTY5/MmUzYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}