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Small colleges are the lifeblood of hundreds of communities in the United States, and they've provided outstanding education to millions of students, many of whom owe their success to their small college experience. Today, though, they find themselves in peril with declining influence and shrinking enrollments. Their challenges, in turn, spill over into the communities that support them.
How to Be a Small College tells the story of how small colleges came to this point. It argues that many small colleges lost their way over the past two generations, becoming more complicated and less effective as they sought growth and prestige. The pathway back to health is through focus, commitment to serving actual students in actual communities, and operating in ways that reassert an approach to learning that only small colleges can provide. How to Be a Small College describes how faculty, staff, and students, together with their supporters, can create a renaissance of small colleges and the communities that support them.
Small colleges are the lifeblood of hundreds of communities in the United States, and they've provided outstanding education to millions of students, many of whom owe their success to their small college experience. Today, though, they find themselves in peril with declining influence and shrinking enrollments. Their challenges, in turn, spill over into the communities that support them.
How to Be a Small College tells the story of how small colleges came to this point. It argues that many small colleges lost their way over the past two generations, becoming more complicated and less effective as they sought growth and prestige. The pathway back to health is through focus, commitment to serving actual students in actual communities, and operating in ways that reassert an approach to learning that only small colleges can provide. How to Be a Small College describes how faculty, staff, and students, together with their supporters, can create a renaissance of small colleges and the communities that support them.