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J-B ASHE Higher Education Report Series (AEHE)
Creating Distinctiveness: Lessons from Uncommon Colleges and Universities
Defines institutional distinctiveness and identifies the characteristics of distinctive colleges and universities. Offers brief examples of ten distinctive examples, analyzing both the advantages and disadvantages of distinctiveness.
94 pages, Paperback
First published October 14, 1992
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September 6, 2020
This is a great, concise explanation of the roots of atypical institutions of higher education and the risks they face. If it does nothing else, it provides a workable definition of distinctive education, a concept that we all understand intuitively but I, for one, have trouble elucidating.
In less than one hundred pages, the authors describe the varied origins of distinctive colleges and highlight their diverging trajectories through precise case studies. The chapter on financial and management models may be a bit beyond the scope of the lay reader (me), but the rest of the text is decidedly approachable.
I came to the text wondering "Why are most colleges similar, but some colleges wildly dissimilar?" I don't know that this book can claim to answer that question in its entirety, but it did a great deal to begin doing so.
In less than one hundred pages, the authors describe the varied origins of distinctive colleges and highlight their diverging trajectories through precise case studies. The chapter on financial and management models may be a bit beyond the scope of the lay reader (me), but the rest of the text is decidedly approachable.
I came to the text wondering "Why are most colleges similar, but some colleges wildly dissimilar?" I don't know that this book can claim to answer that question in its entirety, but it did a great deal to begin doing so.
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