01793 a2200277 4500 BJBSDDR 20241119105730.0 ta 201024s2020 ohu 00| 0 eng d 9781948742849 1948742845 eng DLC eng LB 2328.32 V916p 2020 Volk, Steven Saul, 1946- 39282 The post-pandemic liberal arts college : a manifesto for reinvention / Steven Volk & Beth Benedix. Cleveland, OH : Belt Publishing, 2020. 158 pages : illustration ; 19 cm. "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 Educación superior Fines y objetivos 2415 Estados Unidos Educación humanística 1758 Universidades privadas 39522 Estados Unidos Hawkins Benedix, Beth, 1971- 39283 lcc BK dpf 122361 122361 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2024-10-30 0 LB 2328.32 V916p 2020 00000186684 2024-10-30 00:00:00 1 2024-10-30 BK