TY  - GEN
AU  - Volk,Steven Saul
AU  - Hawkins Benedix,Beth
TI  - The post-pandemic liberal arts college : : a manifesto for reinvention 
SN  - 9781948742849
AV  - LB 2328.32 V916p 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Cleveland, OH : 
PB  - Belt Publishing, 
KW  - Educación superior
KW  - Fines y objetivos
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Educación humanística
KW  - Universidades privadas
N2  - "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
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