I was surprised to read this today. Does anyone have any insights beyond what’s explained in the article?
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/04/18/grinnell-severs-ties-posse-foundation
@LucieTheLakie , did you ever find out anything? This program has been really effective, and my sense was that it was a good fit for LACs where full-blown centers for this (like some of the big publics have) didn’t really make sense.
I haven’t, @gardenstategal. I don’t have a student at Grinnell; my one friend who does thought maybe they felt they were already meeting this need through their own admissions outreach and that there were too many administrative hurdles to jump through with the Posse Foundation to recruit too few students.
This was the official statement posted on FB: https://www.grinnell.edu/news/posse-relationship.
Did you read the comments following the IHE article? Pretty interesting discussion.
It looks like this hit several people’s hot buttons.