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Strategies that Strengthen: Lessons from Colleges that Have Struggled
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Brown, Alice W. – Trusteeship, 2012
Many small colleges are struggling and should remember that denial is not prevention. Technology is providing new ways for students to get degrees without being a resident on a campus, accrediting agencies are increasing their demands for evidence that students are learning, and the costs for operating an institution (such as utilities and…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Higher Education, Technology Uses in Education, Accreditation (Institutions)
A Discordant Melody of Sameness.
Carroll, William J. – Trusteeship, 2003
Explores why, in meeting the competition from public and proprietary institutions, small liberal arts colleges should avoid their current homogenization and focus on core, distinctive elements of excellence. (EV)
Descriptors: Competition, Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Liberal Arts
When It's Wrong To Grow.
Winston, Gordon C. – Trusteeship, 2002
Discusses why expanding to compete with public institutions makes no economic sense for small private colleges and may lower their rankings in the national collegiate pecking order. (EV)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Organization Size (Groups), Organizational Change, Private Colleges
Rx for Small Liberal Arts Colleges.
Hotchkiss, Eugene – Trusteeship, 1995
It is argued that while the restructuring of higher education may be necessary for the liberal arts college to thrive, it is imperative that in this process, the traditional values of the liberal arts experience be maintained and the teaching faculty continue to be recognized as the crucial cohort in the institution. (MSE)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, College Faculty, College Instruction
The Race To Be Wired.
Laramee, William – Trusteeship, 1998
Small colleges are under increasing pressure to spend on upgrading technology to win a real or imagined technology race against other institutions. However, the process of making this decision should be coordinated and focus on return on investment; strategic match of technology and mission; competitive advantage; knowledge of real needs;…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, College Environment, Competition, Computer Uses in Education
A Question for Conferees...Looking for the Bottom Line.
Tranquada, Robert E.; And Others – Trusteeship, 1996
Five college and university trustees and administrators explain how their institutions are approaching tuition containment. Issues the institutions have addressed in this context include need-blind admissions policy, using the Consumer Price Index as a budgeting criterion, enrollment changes, relationships with service vendors, personnel policy,…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Ancillary School Services, Budgeting, College Administration
Mission: Ubiquity.
Detweiler, Richard A. – Trusteeship, 1996
The strategic planning process developed at Hartwick College (New York) begun in 1992 is described, and the college's resulting commitment to information technology is discussed. Issues arising during the process included choice of operating system(s), winning over skeptics, software selection, development of technical support, establishment of a…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Change Strategies, College Administration, College Planning