| Description |
1 online resource (271 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction -- Go west, young man: graduation at Centenary college, 1900 -- Colleges of character: Old Main ... in Maine -- People at small colleges: basketball, rock and roll, and a Quaker college -- Colleges of community: less than positive --The integrated campus: Yav -- Blurring the boundaries: a conversation -- Small college futures: Olya -- Epilogue--small is different: a guide for the perplexed -- Appendix A: interview questions -- Appendix B: twelve colleges |
| Summary |
Annotation 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 somewhether through low enrollment, ballooning debt, or simple misfortuneface uncertain futures. Informed by his own experiences as a teacher and administrator, Samuel Schuman sketches the history and development of these institutions; then focuses on their current conditions and future possibilities. Administrators, faculty, and researchers will appreciate Schuman's insight into institutional choices and their consequences. Old Main is an essential book for anyone who shares Schuman's conviction that small colleges occupy a central place in American higher education |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Small colleges -- United States
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Small colleges -- United States -- History
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Small colleges
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780801896828 |
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0801896827 |
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0801880920 |
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9780801880926 |
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