Old Main : small colleges in twenty-first century America / Samuel Schuman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuman, Samuel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Small colleges--United States.

Small colleges.

Small colleges--United States--History.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

271 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This perceptive account of small colleges in America draws on key data and firsthand observations to explain how and why, when it comes to colleges, size matters-to students, to faculty, to administrators, to education. Defined as institutions that enroll between five hundred and three thousand full-time students, small colleges number about six hundred in the United States. Many are thriving, while some-whether through low enrollment, ballooning debt, or simple misfortune-face uncertain futures.

Informed by his own experiences as a scholar and administrator, Samuel Schuman sketches the history and development of these institutions and then focuses on their current conditions and future possibilities. Administrators, faculty, and researchers will appreciate Schuman's insight into institutional choices and their consequences. Old Main is an essential book for anyone who shares the conviction that small colleges occupy a central place in American higher education.

Contents:

A Lawyer from Plummer 18

2 Go West, Young Man 20

Graduation at Centenary College, 1900 42

3 Colleges of Character 44

Old Main...in Maine 75

4 People at Small Colleges 79

Basketball, Rock and Roll, and a Quaker College 106

5 Colleges of Community 109

Less than Positive 135

6 The Integrated Campus 138

Yav 160

7 Blurring the Boundaries 163

A Conversation 180

8 Small College Futures 182

Olya 202

Epilogue. Small Is Different: A Guide for the Perplexed 208

Appendix A Interview Questions 221

Appendix B Twelve Colleges 222.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-260) and index.

ISBN:

0801880920

OCLC:

56729787