#3 How to Be a Small College
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#3 How to Be a Small College
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Demographic, economic, and social trends do not favor small colleges. It is harder than ever to enroll students and cover operating expenses. All the more reason for small colleges to embrace their smallness and stop mimicking larger institutions. Author Gary Daynes talks about how small colleges can survive by being true to their nature.
Small colleges are the lifeblood of hundreds of communitiesin 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.
Colleges will learn to be good inasmuch as they learn to be true to who they are. Being true to who you are depends much less on following best practices and much more on learning from the particularities of the place, students, staff, and faculty at a school. Small colleges think of themselves as particular places. They need to act that way.