By Samuel Schuman
This perceptive and cogent account attracts on key info and firsthand observations to inform the tale of the small university in the US. outlined as associations that sign up among 500 and 3,000 full-time scholars, small faculties quantity approximately 600 within the usa. Many are thriving, whereas some―whether via low enrollment, ballooning debt, or basic misfortune―face doubtful futures.
Informed via his personal reports as a instructor and administrator, Samuel Schuman sketches the historical past and improvement of those associations; then makes a speciality of their present stipulations and destiny chances. directors, school, and researchers will savour Schuman's perception into institutional offerings and their outcomes. Old Main is an important ebook for someone who stocks Schuman's conviction that small schools occupy a crucial position in American better education.
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