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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree Earlham may be in trouble, which is too bad because it’s a great little school.  But if you’re looking at slightly larger or higher ranked schools in slightly better locations, I don’t think you need to worry. [/quote]

I don't get why people think the national LACs like Earlham want to increase their enrollment. Schools have a specific enrollment target based on their housing, their faculty capacity, their dining capacity, the licenses they pay for software/digital library resources etc.  It's not like schools just want to get more and more students--they have an enrollment target that matches their capacity.   Small private LACs have a lot of flexibility and very few have experienced financial trouble.  Smaller regional publics and parochial schools are the most under threat because a larger body holds decision-making power over them --the state or the church.  The state could decide that a school like Roanoke or Old Dominion would be better as a community college or as a specific training institution.  The Catholic church can decide (and has!) to sell off its low-enrollment colleges rather than invest in them.
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