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Marcy, Mary B. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2020
With costs rising, traditional college student populations shrinking, and pundits predicting that huge numbers of colleges will close in the next few decades, small colleges cannot afford to pretend that business-as-usual can sustain them. This book offers five emerging models for how small colleges can hope to survive and thrive in these very…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Sustainability, Models, Educational Innovation
Churchill, Mary L.; Chard, David J. – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021
Founded in 1888 as Miss Wheelock's Kindergarten Training School, Wheelock College's mission was to prepare students to work in the helping professions, including teaching and social work. But in 2018, struggling with growing debt and declining admissions, the 130-year-old institution officially closed and merged with Boston University, creating…
Descriptors: Educational History, Small Colleges, School Closing, Strategic Planning
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Hicks, D. Emily – Myers Education Press, 2023
"An Introduction to Complexity Pedagogy: Using Critical Theory, Critical Pedagogy and Complexity in Performance and Literature" offers readers an introduction to the basic concepts of complexity science and how they might be applied in the teaching of composition, creative writing, performance, and literature. The book builds on Critical…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Teaching Methods, Criticism, Neoliberalism
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Pinheiro, Rómulo, Ed.; Young, Mitchell, Ed.; Šima, Karel, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2018
This book analyses the role of universities as critical actors in the socio-economic development of peripheral regions in Norway and the Czech Republic. Examining the ambiguities of the traditional mission of a university in comparison to contemporary demands, the editors and contributors move past single-case analyses to adopt an integrated…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Role, Economic Development, Socioeconomic Status
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Malveaux, Gregory F., Ed.; Raby, Rosalind Latiner, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Community colleges serve more students than any other institutional type in the United States, and internationalization is an inherent component of community colleges that advances student knowledge, facilitates student success, and serves the needs of local communities. As most community college students do not enroll in four-year institutions,…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Risk Management
Brown, Alice W. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Governance, Governing Boards, Case Studies
Schuman, Samuel – National Collegiate Honors Council, 2011
This monograph focuses upon areas of special concern to those working with honors at smaller colleges and universities: mission, recruitment, facilities, administration, budget, and curriculum. In each area, the author makes some general suggestions about overall operating principles, note specific issues that can lead to difficulties, and suggest…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Small Colleges, Institutional Mission, College Programs
Tull, Ashley, Ed.; Kuk, Linda, Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2012
Student affairs organizations are at a crossroads. They face expanding enrollments; a concomitant increase need for often more complex services; changing demographics; a growing cohort of non-traditional and first-generation students; shifting and more demanding responsibilities; and increased expectations from the greater campus community,…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Change, Role, Responsibility
Hickey, M. Gail, Ed.; Lanahan, Brian K., Ed. – Peter Lang New York, 2012
"Even the Janitor Is White" addresses challenges faced by teacher educators who are committed to diversity education. The chapters in this volume invite readers to reflect on their own practice as teacher educators as well as consider ways in which that practice might be improved. More than forty percent of students in U.S. schools are…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Preservice Teacher Education, Multicultural Education, Education Majors
Townsley, Michael K. – National Association of College and University Business Officers (NJ3), 2009
In this timely book, financial consultant and experienced college administrator Mike Townsley examines the financial and strategic resources that private colleges and universities must have in place to withstand the storm. Small college presidents, CFOs, planners, chief academic officers, and board members all have a hand on the tiller and will…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Small Colleges, Private Colleges, Educational Finance
Schuman, Samuel – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
This perceptive and cogent account draws on key data and firsthand observations to tell the story of the small college in America. Defined as institutions that enroll between 500 and 3,000 full-time students, small colleges number about six hundred in the United States. Many are thriving, while some--whether through low enrollment, ballooning…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Educational History, Development, Educational Trends
Reynolds, Katherine Chaddock – 1998
This biography presents the life of John Andrew Rice, who founded Black Mountain College (North Carolina) in 1933 to implement his philosophy of education, including the centrality of artistic experience and emotional development to learning in all disciplines and the need for democratic governance shared between faculty and students. Born in…
Descriptors: Biographies, College Presidents, Educational History, Educational Innovation
Townsley, Michael K. – 2002
This book analyzes the latest data and economic models to explore whether an unpredictable economy, changes in student preference, tuition that outpaced inflation, and new forms of competition will plunge small colleges into chronic financial distress. It then suggests ways small colleges can position themselves to avoid economic disaster by…
Descriptors: College Administration, Economic Factors, Educational Finance, Educational Trends
Traw, Jeri L., Comp. – 2000
The purpose of this College Library Information Packet (CLIP) Note is to study the characteristics of library Web site policies and to provide small college and university libraries in need of such policies the tools to develop them. This study does not attempt to critique these policies but serves to document current practices smaller academic…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Policy, Library Policy
Hunt, Thomas C.; Carper, James C. – 1988
A bibliography of private colleges and universities that are, or have been, religiously affiliated is provided. Twenty-eight chapters are: major works on religion and American colleges and universities; government aid to church-affiliated colleges and universities; government regulation of church-affiliated colleges and universities; Baptist…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Catholic Schools, Christianity, Church Related Colleges
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