Consolidating Colleges and Merging Universities: New Strategies for Higher Education Leaders

by James Martin

Book Overview

In the midst of falling enrollments and endowments, university leaders consider partnering, merging, and even closing institutions.

Since the economic recession of 2008, colleges and universities have looked for ways to lower costs while increasing incomes. Not all have succeeded. Threatened closures and recent institutional mergers point to what might be a coming trend in higher education. The long-term economic weakness of colleges...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421421674
• ISBN13: 9781421421674
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"