After Decline, What? Survival Strategies at Eight Private Colleges
| Title: | After Decline, What? Survival Strategies at Eight Private Colleges |
| Author: | Chaffee, Ellen Earle |
| Date: | 1984 |
| Catalog #: | 2BA365 |
| Price: | $ 6.00 |
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| Description: |
In this overview, the efforts—successful and otherwise—of eight private four-year colleges to deal with four consecutive years of revenue decline in the early 1970s are chronicled. The narratives emphasize the causes of and organizational responses to financial stress. While the cases are drawn from only one sector in higher education, college and university administrators generally will find broad application for the lessons learned at these schools. They will find, for example, that in college after college, the biggest problem before, during, and after decline was not demographic change or new career aims of students, or national or regional economic conditions. Instead, it was that perennial and universal organizational concern—quality of executive leadership. |