The Invisible Colleges Revisited: An Empirical Review

Tarrant, Melissa; Bray, Nathaniel J.; Katsinas, Stephen G.

doi:10.1080/00221546.2017.1390971

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“…Given how malleable and adaptable liberal arts institutions have proven (Baker & Baldwin, 2015;Tarrant et al, 2018), it is likely that those institutions that recognize the absurdity of their current diversity initiatives will find creative ways to adapt their operations to provide better support for diversity, without losing their appeal to wouldbe liberal arts students looking to explore the intellectual universe and gain foundational knowledge across a full range of disciplines, and without losing critical elements of prestige that afford social mobility. For the richest and "best" colleges, this adaptation may not be economically necessary.…”

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Top-tier liberal arts colleges in the United States and the struggle for racial diversity: re-stating the problem and re-crafting its solution

Goerwitz¹

2021

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This study concludes that, despite a rising din of criticism, and despite the existence of alternate assessment frameworks, top-tier liberal arts colleges in the United States measure themselves primarily along axes of wealth and exclusivity, and prioritize their operations accordingly. Paradoxically, though, they articulate diversity, particularly racial diversity, as a key goal. To reconcile their exclusivity with racial diversity, such institutions recruit students that, regardless of race, arrive on campus pre-acculturated to the dominant White culture—a self-defeating recruitment pattern that tends to exclude students not so acculturated. This study reviews various ways such institutions can go about discussing and resolving this inherent conflict at the institutional level and in so doing provide better support for minority students from more typical schools and neighborhoods, who become fully immersed in the dominant culture for the first time only upon initiating their post-secondary education. These students constitute essential components of a truly diverse campus.

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“…In reworking these mechanisms, liberal arts colleges will not sell their souls. Rather, they will continue a cycle that has repeated itself since the dawn of liberal arts education, and continues unabated now (Tarrant et al, 2018): They will adapt their concept of what it means to offer and receive a "good education" to meet a new set of demands.…”

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2021

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“…No one measure extensively evaluates public and private institutions' financial health. Determining the financial stability of colleges and universities is essential as inadequate finances are related to campus mergers and closures (Bates & Santerre, 2000;Rocha et al, 2019;Tarrant et al, 2018).…”

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Evaluating the likelihood of the glass cliff phenomenon for female ceos in college and universities

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Wendt²

2023

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The glass cliff phenomenon (GCP) maintains that women are more likely to lead risky organizations than men. Quantitative measures of risk for assessing a possible GCP exist for leaders in the business sector, but no quantitative measures exist for college or university leadership. This article tests one variable of risk for college and university institutions, the financial responsibility composite score (FRCS), to see if it measures the GCP in college or university chief executive officer (CEO) hires. Using an ex post facto causal-comparative design, gender and FRCS in private American colleges and universities were analyzed using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data. Purposive sampling randomly paired institutions with female CEOs with similar institutions with male CEOs. Using the U.S. Department of Education's FRCS database, the researcher reviewed patterns in FRCS before and after CEO hires over three studies. No statistically significant results were observed, demonstrating that there is no indication that female CEOs are hired into riskier colleges or universities when utilizing FRCS. Future studies should further investigate the GCP using alternative measures of risk.

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When Innovative Institutions Fail: Quest University, Partnerships, Financial Sustainability

Warren

2023

The Impacts of Innovative Institutions in Higher Education

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The Invisible Colleges Revisited: An Empirical Review

Cited by 8 publications

References 19 publications

Top-tier liberal arts colleges in the United States and the struggle for racial diversity: re-stating the problem and re-crafting its solution

Top-tier liberal arts colleges in the United States and the struggle for racial diversity: re-stating the problem and re-crafting its solution

Evaluating the likelihood of the glass cliff phenomenon for female ceos in college and universities

When Innovative Institutions Fail: Quest University, Partnerships, Financial Sustainability

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