Dive Brief:

• Two Philadelphia-area college presidents make their cases for the importance of liberal arts in a new book.
• "Remaking College" features essays by 20 former and current college presidents.
• The presidents of Haverford College and Swarthmore College say regional liberal arts colleges will have trouble surviving if they don't address growing costs. 

Dive Insight:

The authors write of creative ways they are trying to control costs and expand the utility of their schools, such as offering ways to complete an undergraduate degree in three years, offering hybrid classroom/online classes and collaborating with other schools. Case in point: Haverford, Bryn Mawr College and Swarthmore share libraries and a linguistics department.