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Provides information on each step of the college admissions process, including selecting a college, writing application essays, handling college interviews, and financial aid.

Presidencies Derailed is the first book to explore in depth why university presidencies fail and how university and college leadership can forestall, if not prevent, future leadership failures. Former university president Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, along with professor Gerald B. Kauvar and former chancellor E. Grady Bogue, organize, classify, and explain patterns of leadership failures, drawing on firsthand testimonies from "derailed" university presidents, sixteen case studies in four sectors of higher education, and reviews of the scholarly literature on leadership failures in the public and private sectors.

Admissions and financial aid policies at liberal arts colleges have changed dramatically since 1955. Through the 1950s, most colleges in the United States enrolled fewer than 1000 students, nearly all of whom were white. Few colleges were truly selective in their admissions; they accepted most students who applied. In the 1960s, as the children of the baby boom reached college age and both federal and institutional financial aid programs expanded, many more students began to apply to college. For the first time, liberal arts colleges were faced with an abundance of applicants, which raised new questions. What criteria would they use to select students? How would they award financial aid? The answers to these questions were shaped by financial and educational considerations as well as by the struggles for civil rights and gender equality that swept across the nation. The colleges' answers also proved crucial to their futures, as the years since the mid-1970s have shown. When the influx of baby boom students slowed, colleges began to recruit aggressively in order to maintain their class sizes. In the past decade, financial aid has become another tool that colleges use to compete for the best students. By tracing the development of competitive admission and financial aid policies at a selected group of liberal arts colleges, Crafting a Class explores how institutional decisions reflect and respond to broad demographic, economic, political, and social forces. Elizabeth Duffy and Idana Goldberg closely studied sixteen liberal arts colleges in Massachusetts and Ohio. At each college, they not only collected empirical data on admissions, enrollment, and financial aid trends, but they also examined archival materials and interviewed current and former administrators. Duffy and Goldberg have produced an authoritative and highly readable account of some of the most important changes that have taken place in American higher education during the tumultuous decades since the mid-1950s. Crafting a Class will interest all readers who are concerned with the past and future directions of higher education in the United States. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Includes profiles of 250 of the most-toured colleges in the country, plus maps, directions, lodging information, and advice on arranging appointments with faculty

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Product Description: Now in its 66th edition, The Europa World of Learning is one of the world's leading reference works. Updated to the highest editorial standards, entries are sourced directly from the organizations to ensure accurate and reliable information...read more

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Product Description: The MEGA-GUIDE to 1,573 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES!No one knows colleges better than The Princeton Review! Inside The Complete Book of Colleges, 2016 Edition, you’ll find meticulously researched information that will help you narrow the search for the best college for you! Each of the 1,573 user-friendly profiles answers your questions, including:   • How much are tuition and other student fees and costs?    • What types of financial aid are available, and when are the applications due?    • What do admissions officers most look for in test scores and recommendations?   • Which majors are the most popular and have the highest enrollment?    • What is the housing like, and how accessible is technology on campus?    • What are the key campus organizations, athletics, and student activities?    • How selective is the school?   • Plus! Indexes based on cost, selectivity, and size that will help you narrow your search...read more

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An alternative college directory profiles more than one thousand schools, from those with the lowest tuition to those with the most politically aware students, and contains lists of schools that fit specific concerns