There is a sure ebb together with current inwards the issue of articles calling for pregnant changes or highlighting the fiscal stress of pocket-size colleges or universities. We for certain seem to hold upward inwards i of those periods where a novel article or spider web log posting seems to surface every few days. In a recent example, Nathan Harder writing for the
The American Interest predicts, "In 50 years, if non much sooner, one-half of the some 4,500 colleges together with universities at i time operating inwards the USA volition bring ceased to exist."
I found
Changing Course: Reinventing Colleges, Avoiding Closure to offering a timely together with interesting pick of instance studies together with essays edited past times Alice W. Brown together with Sandra L. Ballard. Intended equally a wake-up call, readers tin for certain create goodness from the experiences of the diverse authors involved amongst institutions that either unopen or close closed.
The majority was published inwards 2011 equally purpose of the Jossey-Bass New Directions for Higher Education series. Chapters include:
- Case Study of a College that Closed: Saint Mary's College, Alice W. Brown
- Bradford College: Requiem for a College, Arthur Levine
- A College that Reinvented Itself: The Wilson College Story, Mary-Linda Merriam Armacost
- Case Study of Reinvention: College of Charleston, Alice W. Brown
- Reinventing Black Colleges inwards Postethnic America: The Case of Knoxville College, Barbara R. Hatton
- Antioch College: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Celebrated History together with an Uncertain Future, Elizabeth R. Hayford
- Advice to Presidents of Struggling Colleges, Michael J. Puglisi
