Small-college leaders share how their institutions have attempted to ward off enrollment crises befo

ATLANTA -- Change -- the inevitability of it, trying predict its contours and get ahead of it -- was on the minds of many who attended the Association of American Colleges and Universities’ annual meeting here last week. The news of Green Mountain College’s closure only heightened interest in proactivity among institutional leaders, especially leaders of the small, private, less selective colleges that are canaries in the change mine. And while sharing their struggles isn’t always...