Cautionary Tales : Strategy Lessons from Struggling Colleges.

Scarcely a week goes by without a headline about the unsustainability of higher education as we know it, under threat from new models, for-profits, or online education. Most threatened are small liberal arts colleges - with commentators predicting the demise of colleges with fewer than 1,000, or eve...

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Main Author: Brown, Alice W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Sterling : Stylus Pub., 2012.
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520 |a Scarcely a week goes by without a headline about the unsustainability of higher education as we know it, under threat from new models, for-profits, or online education. Most threatened are small liberal arts colleges - with commentators predicting the demise of colleges with fewer than 1,000, or even 1,500 students. Are these trends inevitable, or can they be overcome?Through a unique case study approach to examining and analyzing colleges that have struggled, Alice Brown reveals the steps that can lead to a sustainable operation and, when closure is inevitable, the steps to do so with orderli. 
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505 0 |a Cover; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; 1. EARLY HISTORY; 2. TWENTIETH CENTURY; 3. TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; PART ONE: TURNING AROUND; 4. TRUSTEES; 5. HOW GOVERNING BOARDS FAIL; 6. PRESIDENTS; 7. OBSERVATIONS OF A PAST PRESIDENT; 8. FACULTY AND STAFF; 9. THE ROLE OF FACULTY AND STAFF IN REVIVING FRAGILE INSTITUTIONS; 10. FINANCIAL RESOURCES; PART TWO: GOING IT ALONE; 11. SUE BENNETT COLLEGE; 12. MARY HOLMES COLLEGE; 13. LINDENWOOD UNIVERSITY; PART THREE: MERGING WITH ANOTHER COLLEGE OR UNIVERSITY; 14. RX FOR NONPROFIT COLLEGES; 15. BARAT COLLEGE/DEPAUL UNIVERSITY. 
505 8 |a 16. WESTERN COLLEGE/MIAMI UNIVERSITYPART FOUR: PARTNERING WITH A FOR-PROFIT; 17. COLLEGE OF SANTA FE; 18. THE FOR-PROFIT CHALLENGE; PART FIVE: LESSONS LEARNED; 19. IS THERE A FUTURE FOR SMALL COLLEGES?; CONCLUSIONS; AFTERWORD; ENDNOTE; REFERENCES; ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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