Transforming a College: The Story of a Little-Known College's Strategic Climb to National Distinction
by George Keller
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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George Keller was an education consultant and one of America's leading scholars of higher education. He was chair of the graduate program in higher education studies at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Academic Strategy: The Management Revolution in American Higher Education, also published by Johns Hopkins.
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- Nonfiction, History, Business
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- 378.756 — Society, government, & culture Education Higher education (Tertiary education) North America Southeastern United States (South Atlantic states) North Carolina
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- LD1741 .E762 .K45 — Education Individual institutions – United States United States Universities. Colleges
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