On the Brink of Disaster? an article inwards August 2009 yesteryear David J. Koon on the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy website explores issues facing person higher education. Koon cites statistics from the Department of Education’s Digest of Educational Statistics indicating that but 185 independent four-year institutions unopen downward betwixt 1977 in addition to 2007. He calculates well-nigh an 89 pct survival charge per unit of measurement over iii decades in addition to comments that most of those that closed were small, relatively unknown colleges amongst enrollments of fewer than 100 students.
Koon cites an interesting paper, "Why create colleges fail? An analysis of college in addition to academy closings in addition to mergers, 1975-2005," written yesteryear Stephen R. Porter in addition to Trina J. Ramirez of the Department of Educational Leadership in addition to Policy Studies at Iowa State University. These researchers started amongst the person colleges listed inwards the 1973 Carnegie classification of institutions in addition to thus explored why 10% of these institutions no longer existed equally stand-alone institutions yesteryear 2005. The hold upward of Porter in addition to Ramirez challenges unopen to usually held perceptions used to explicate why certainly institutions are inwards difficulty.
Why Create Colleges Fail?
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