The War
The Story of One Rural College's Battle for Survival
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11256218 |
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| Authors | Guy E Mills (Fort Hays Tech Northwest, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 639-651 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peabody Journal of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0161-956X • E-ISSN: 1532-7930 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0161956x.2014.956558 |
| OpenAlex | W1998582646 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper intends to describe the recent experience of a small, rural, two-year technical college. After four decades of success, the college had found itself in a difficult situation with a substantial loss in enrollment and diminished state and local support, coupled with low campus employee morale. In response, the college team closed ranks and rallied in what has become quite a proactive and successful effort to reinvent itself. After nearly six years of working to correct a number of issues that had led to decline, the college gained a general sense of stabilization, made advances in existing and new academic programs and technical innovation, dramatically increased diversity, and enhanced student life opportunities with the addition of an array of successful athletic programs. The college has seen significant increases in enrollment, state and national recognition for technical initiatives, and a collectively positive sense of the future
Battle · Diversity (politics · Higher education · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · History · Law · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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