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Higher education at risk : strategies to improve outcomes, reduce tuition, and stay competitive in a disruptive environment / Sandra Featherman ; foreword by Stephen Joel Trachtenberg.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Featherman, Sandra, author.
Trachtenberg, Stephen Joel, author of introduction, etc.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
College costs--United States.
College costs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (265 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Sterling, Virgina : Stylus Publishing, [2014]
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Sandra Featherman believes that colleges are in denial about the severity of the threats to the current model of higher education. Based on her own experience as a president, she offers both a trenchant analysis of those threats and clear prescriptions.
Contents:
Higher education at risk
Nonprofit colleges: strengths and weaknesses
Why college costs are so high
How the for-profits do it
Case studies, opportunities, and challenges
Some prescriptions for higher education.
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-000-97881-8
1-00-344508-X
1-000-97293-3
1-003-44508-X
1-62036-069-1
9781003445081
OCLC:
923700166

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