Why I'm Stubbornly Optimistic About the Future of Small Colleges - Opinion

Joshua Kim, director of digital learning initiatives at the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning, writes:  Last week we learned that yet another small college, Oregon's Marylhurst University, is closing.  Higher ed publications are full of stories with depressing titles such as Days of Reckoning and The Culling of Higher Ed Begins.  Anyone who cares about the future of the small college in the US would be insane not to worry.  Even a cursory look at the demographics of undergraduate demand would give the most ardent optimist pause.