Transforming a college : the story of a little-known college's strategic climb to national distinction

Title:

Personal Author:

Keller, George, 1928-2007 author

Edition:

Updated edition

Publication Information:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014

Physical Description:

xviii, 146 pages ; 22 cm.

ISBN:

9781421414478

142141497

General Note:

First edition published in 2004

Includes index

Abstract:

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 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

Subject Term:

Elon College -- History

Elon University -- History

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George Keller's case study of Elon University's transformation from a struggling college with a limited endowment into a top regional university is now available in paperback.

Ten years after the publication of Transforming a College , Elon University continues to thrive as a school that reinvented itself and its community around the idea of inspiring and guiding students. George Keller's now-classic account has been used as an inspiration and playbook for many other institutions.

Available for the first time in paperback, this edition coincides with Elon's 125th anniversary. A new foreword and afterword from Elon president Leo M. Lambert tell the rest of the story of the university's ambitious agenda to position Elon as a top-ranked liberal arts university and a national leader in engaged teaching and learning.

Author Notes

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.

Leo M. LambertLeo M. Lambert

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
1 Up from the Ashes	p. 1
2 New Leader, New Initiatives	p. 29
3 Student Life and Pleasures	p. 41
4 Elevating the Academics	p. 57
5 Financing the Rise	p. 76
6 The Fruits and Ironies of Success	p. 88
7 Analysis of an Ascent	p. 98
Afterword	p. 109
Acknowledgments	p. 137
Index	p. 139

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