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For Small-College Presidents, Advice on Budgets and Bully Pulpits

Chronicle of Higher Education

January 5, 2012

The 345 college presidents at the Council of Independent Colleges' annual Presidents Institute heard from Ronald G. Ehrenberg, a finance guru, who noted that the many financial and political challenges now converging on higher education can also open up opportunities for small colleges. Nannerl O. Keohane, the former president of both Wellesley College and Duke University, kicked off the Presidents Institute with an impassioned address on the value of a liberal-arts education and the ways presidents could champion it.

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