Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving, Surviving, or Endangered?

by David W. Breneman

Book Overview

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Private liberal arts colleges provide high-quality undergraduate education, but their survival is in doubt. Some see the liberal arts as increasingly irrelevant in a world marked by growing demand for technical training. Others wonder how private colleges, many with few students and high tuitions, can compete successfully against heavily subsidized public colleges and universities.

David Breneman, an economist and former college president,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815710615
• ISBN13: 9780815710615
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"