Focus on the
Undergraduate

High Quality Education

Liberal Arts Education
for a Lifetime

Emphasis on Values

Significant Opportunities

Advantageous Teaching
Environment

Leadership

Financially &
Administratively Efficient

College "Family"
Commitment

For more than two centuries small colleges have served America well, making high quality education accessible to the fullest range of students - student who as graduates have gone on to become national leaders in business, government, and the professions.

People often ask: "Why don't small colleges grow larger?"

The answer is simple: Small colleges elect purposefully to remain small because of the advantages smallness brings to the educational process. America's small colleges are not small by default, they are small by choice.

In recent years a number of national educational commissions have called for "reforms" in higher education. Many of these so-called reforms - emphasis on the undergraduate student, smaller classes, focus on core liberal arts - have been central attributes of America's small colleges from their beginning.

To make more visible the advantages of small college and to make explicit why small colleges choose to remain small, the Council of Independent College is pleased to publish this Special Report, the third of a continuing series whose purpose is to explain the vital role of small colleges in American higher education.

Allen P. Splete President The Council of Independent Colleges

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