Colleges are facing a long list of problems right now, and it’s only getting longer.
“Some people will care because they have college-aged children,” says author and psychologist Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum. “But what if you said, ‘Well, I don’t have children, or I’ve already been to college, or I’m not thinking about colleges and universities’?”
Higher education transforms the student, but it also transforms society, she argues. It boosts democracy, soft diplomacy and creativity.
And if that’s not enough, “it’s driving the innovation that fuels our economy,” Tatum says. Plus, “small liberal arts colleges are often in small towns where they’re a major employer.”
Tatum saw all that and more as the leader of two liberal arts colleges for women: Spelman College in Atlanta, Ga., which she hel