The past decade has been especially hard on small colleges. Forces that have always made operating a smaller institution challenging have converged and intensified in new ways. There’s stiffer competition for traditional-age students, and many students, wary of loan debt and dubious of the cost and value of a degree, are harder to win over.
Surviving as a Small College explores the challenges facing small colleges and describes how they might surmount them. It highlights the ways such institutions can build relationships with their communities and with donors, as well as strategies to recruit and retain students. Small colleges also have distinctive benefits; this report examines how leaders can make the most of those.
