Abstract
Catholic institutions of higher education in the United States are increasingly finding themselves at risk concerning their survival because of potential threats in five principal areas: 1) changing delivery systems, 2) a failure of management, 3) Catholic identity and religious affiliation, 4) competitive price structures, and 5) the volatility of enrollment. Yet there is no remorseless law of entropy to which Catholic colleges and universities are inexorably bound. There are many choices facing us, some better than others, and only a few really bad. Two of the latter are: to do nothing or, worse, to continue to do things the way we have been doing them. This essay suggests lines of approach that, taken together, offer hope for escape from the present situation and point to long term success.
DOI
10.15365/joce.0104062013
First Page
414
Last Page
426
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Larrey, M. F. (1998). Clouded Horizons: Catholic Higher Education in the Coming Decade. Journal of Catholic Education. https://doi.org/10.15365/joce.0104062013
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