Five years ago, the Committee on Administrative Issues spearheaded the fall conference on the issue of campus collegiality, but Benninghoff said it was not anything people wanted to discuss. We could do less, but the general feeling at institutions of our sort is that if colleges really care about lifelong learning, as they say they do, they have an obligation to continue providing it for their alumni. We think we have an obligation to our students, not just for the four years they are here, but also for the future. These expectations fuel the need for more money, which in turn fuels expansion in the Development Office. There also are almost 800 special gifts in individual departments.
More money means more paper or computer time.
That means more people. We have grown because we've been successful. In his report, Weida says the school's cap on enrollment and its commitment to keep tuition down means the college needs to start talking more seriously about efficiency. The more lean and mean CC can become, he says, the more likely it will avoid the kind wrenching choices already effecting other schools. Cassin's report drew on studies that compare Colorado College to other small top-ranked liberal arts schools.