Photo: Sophie Park/The Hechinger Report The Colleges That Won’t Die Jon Marcus and Kirk Carapezza, The Hechinger Report/GBH News As small colleges continue to close or merge, some people are digging in to save these imperiled schools, or stop them from being absorbed into larger institutions.
Their reasons vary, but advocates say small colleges serve as critical incubators for education innovation and turn out graduates with the kind of creativity that employers both want and need. |