November 25, 2005

Can Small Colleges Survive?

By ERIC HOOVER

BEST CASE: It's 2015. The Chicken Littles in tweed coats can stop fretting about the future of small colleges.

Despite years of dire predictions that small residential colleges would be swept away by the gales of increasing costs and student careerism, the institutions are enjoying a renaissance in 2015. As the national applicant pool grows more diverse, more first-generation college students and nonnative speakers of English than ever before seek the comfort of small, tightknit

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