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Small private liberal arts colleges with a regional orientation, such as the University of Charleston – a 1,339-student college in West Virginia with an endowment of about $30 million – have historically looked to the elites in the field, such as Williams and Swarthmore -- institutions with similarly sized student bodies but more than $1.5 billion in endowment funds -- as the trend-setters.
But, to use a phrase that’s popular in education these days, maybe it’s time to flip the classroom.