The threats to liberal arts colleges

Daedalus

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 27-45

  Neely, Paul ^a  

^a WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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References (13)

1. Jennifer Pinkerton, "UA Scholarships Attract More Bright Freshmen," Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 27 September 1998.
2. See, for instance, The College Board, Trends in College Pricing 1998 (New York: The College Board, 1998).
3. THe National Center for Postsecondary Improvement, "The Choice-Income Squeeze: How Do Costs and Discounts Affect Institutional Choice," Change (September/October 1998): 53-56 (based on research by Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro).
4. The qualifier "artfully done" may explain contradictory conclusions about whether research bears any correlation to good teaching. See, for instance, a positive conclusion in Zachary Karabell, What's College For? (New York: Basic Books, 1998), 134
5. , and the contrary assertion in Christopher J. Lucas, Crisis in the Academy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), 193.
6. Lucas, Crisis in the Academy, 52-53.
7. Frederick Rudolph, Mark Hopkins and the Log, 2d ed. (Williamstown: Williams College, 1996), appendix.
8. "The American Freshman: Twenty-five Year Trends," cited in David W. Breneman, Liberal Arts Colleges: Thriving, Surviving or Endangered (Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1994), 141.
9. Peter Passell, "Affluent Turning to Public Colleges, Threatening a Squeeze for Others," New York Times, 13 August 1997, p. A16.
10. Joyce Mercer, "Expensive Ambitions," Chronicle of Higher Education, 26 April 1996, p. A33-35,
11. describes Charles T. Clotfelter, Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996).
12. For a fuller discussion of this economic model, see discussion papers published by the Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education. A useful beginning would be Gordon C. Winston, "The Economic Structure of Higher Education: Subsidies, Customer-Inputs and Hierarchy," Williams College, 1996.
13. Todd Gitlin, "The Liberal Arts in an Age of Info-Glut," Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 May 1998, p. B4.