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In Turbulent Times, 2 Small Colleges Brace for the Worst

Chronicle of Higher Education

May 7, 2008

Heidelberg College pumped up its spending for a new, streamlined scholarship program, and then promoted its simplified formula so that students would know how much they could get before they even applied. At Tiffin University, thanks to distance-education and satellite campuses, the student population has risen over 50 percent in five years. Together, these two very dissimilar colleges present a living laboratory for the variety of experiments and strategies that many small, private colleges are now undertaking.

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