01687    a2200241   4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001300102041000900115050002700124100003100151245010600182260004700288300004300335520089400378650006201272650003101334650004401365700003601409BJBSDDR20241119105730.0ta201024s2020    ohu           00| 0 eng d  a9781948742849  a1948742845  bengcDLC  aeng 14aLB 2328.32bV916p 20201 aVolk, Steven Saul, d1946-14aThe post-pandemic liberal arts college : ba manifesto for reinvention /cSteven Volk & Beth Benedix.  aCleveland, OH : bBelt Publishing, c2020.  a158 pages : billustration ; c19 cm.   a"Private liberal arts colleges have been struggling for decades; now, as the COVID-19 pandemic widens cracks latent in many American institutions, they are facing a possibly mortal crisis. Steven Volk and Beth Benedix call for small colleges to seize this moment and reinvent themselves. With the rise of rankings that set peer institutions against each other, tuition that outpaces income, creeping pre-professionalism, and a race to build student 'customers' the splashiest new amenities, many private liberal arts colleges have strayed from their founders' missions. If they could shed the mantle of exclusivity, reduce costs, facilitate true social mobility, and collaborate with each other, the authors argue, they might both survive and again become just, equitable, accessible institutions able to offer the transformative and visionary education that is their hallmark"--Back cover 4aEducación superior xFines y objetivos zEstados Unidos 4aEducación humanística  4aUniversidades privadas zEstados Unidos1 aHawkins Benedix, Beth, d1971-