A thoughtful new essay by Gary King and Maya Sen on the future of higher education, apparently part of a forthcoming symposium, just came across the transom. I look forward to reading the rest of the papers.
While it is a decade old now, Distinctly American: The Residential Liberal Arts College, edited by Reed’s then president Steven Koblik provides more details on this niche of higher ed. The article by Morton Schapiro (currently president of Northwestern and at the time president of Willams College) on the financial challenges faced by these institutions is particularly sobering. It should be required reading for every faculty member at an LAC.