This Little Student Went to Market. (Correspondence).
American Prospect, The, November, 2002 by Johnston, Carol Ann
CONCERNING DAVID L. KIRP and Jeffrey T. Holman's "This Little Student Went to Market" [Oct. 7], it seems disingenuous for Kirp and Holman, from their Berkeley bully pulpit, to hurl stones at a small college striving to attract enough students to pay its bills.
Dickinson College, modestly endowed, is tuition driven. Colleges with whom we compete have double our endowment and are ranked in U.S. News & World Report proportional to that endowment. How would Kirp and Holman advise us to proceed to succeed? The authors' attack shows the luxury of their thinking, ...
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