Offers advice to professional colleagues on the transition from a large university to a small college department. (PD)

A chairperson and professor of a small, college communication program examines his transition with respect to students, courses and curricula, support services, equipment, and administrative and faculty relations. (PD)

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…

The necessity of clarity in the expression of the small college's mission and goals is emphasized. The central place of values in the institution's mission and the central role of leadership, which is to infuse the small college with those values, are discussed. (MLW)

Describes how a small college, in the face of an outdated image as a teacher's college, has aggressively sought to place its business graduates in jobs. Several techniques for attracting college recruiters are described. (Author)

Describes the bold but successful steps taken by Champlain College to ensure institutional survival, such as eliminating 15 departments and clearly defining institutional mission. (EV)

Conducted year-long research project to study student culture on small college campus. Findings from 99 students revealed that students' dating practices differed radically from traditional practice where men take women out to dinner or a movie. Rather, found that pair of students spontaneously agreed to spend evening together. (NB)

Explores ALA (American Library Association) membership among directors at small liberal arts colleges. Results show that they are less likely to be members of ALA and ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) than directors at larger colleges. Suggests ways to increase membership among directors at smaller colleges. (Author/LRW)

Reports on the closing of Bradford College (Massachusetts), a small independent institution with a recent history characterized by shifting strategies, a heavy debt burden, and unrealistic enrollment projections. Compares Bradford's experience with that of Trinity College (Vermont), another small, struggling but surviving, institution. (DB)

Discusses the growing trend of small colleges merging with larger ones and details successful behavior in four steps of the merging process: agreeing to agree, investigating, negotiating "at the table," and signing the deal. (EV)

Describes how California's Bethany College survived four years of tough love from the accrediting Western Association of Schools and Colleges and emerged with a clean bill of health and a future. (EV)

This article discusses Antioch College, a once-prominent countercultural institution that will be closed in 2008 due to serious financial problems. Antioch has been hemorrhaging money for years. Its Board of Trustees has decided to shutter the college by July 2008 and lay off most of its 160 staff and faculty members. Although the administration…

The policies and practices of small college counseling centers have been neglected in the literature at a time when campus mental health services are under scrutiny. A national sample of 181 small campus counseling center directors responded to the Iowa Counseling Center Survey-Revised. Their responses were compared with information about large…

This paper looks at the development and management of an intercollegiate forensics program at a small college. It first deals with the context for analyzing a program, and then discusses the analysis itself, which should provide the foundation for a program's development. Some points for program management follow, and the paper concludes with a…

This bibliography, compiled by a college librarian with the assistance of 11 college instructors, contains the core of current English-language publications in archaeology, suitable for a small college that may not train professional archaeologists but that supports coursework and supplies general interest reading material on the topic in its…