Transforming a college : the story of a little-known college's strategic climb to national distinction / George Keller ; with a new foreword by Leo M. Lambert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, George, 1928-2007, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elon College--History.

Elon College.

Elon University--History.

Elon University.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 146 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

Updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

Summary:

Publisher description: Forty years ago, North Carolina's Elon College was struggling to attract students and remain solvent. Today Elon has emerged as one of America's most desirable colleges. How did this transformation happen? What can other colleges and universities learn from Elon's remarkable turnaround? Taking a new approach to the study of higher education, George Keller examines the decisions made by Elon's administration, trustees, and faculty to transform a school with a limited endowment into a top regional university. Using Elon as a case study, Keller sheds light on high-stakes competition among America's colleges and universities -- where losers face contraction or closure and winners gain money, talented students, and top faculty.

Contents:

Up from the ashes

New leader, new initiatives

Student life and pleasures

Elevating the academics

Financing the rise

Fruits and ironies of success

Analysis of an ascent

Afterword, by Leo M. Lambert.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781421414973

142141497X

9781421414478

1421414473

OCLC:

866620636