The 08/11/17 Wall Street Journal article “Seminaries Struggle to Maintain Their Roles” notes that Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass., is closing, this summer has laid off all faculty and is putting up for sale its campus. It will affiliate with Union Theological Seminary (NYC) “But the school’s faculty and students aren’t invited to join.”
Also noted is that the U.S.'s first seminary graduate school, 210-year-old Andover-Newton Theological sold its campus in July and is moving to the Yale Divinity School.
Claremont School of Theology (Calif.) hopes to sell its southern California campus and move somewhere less expensive. [Fargo, anyone?]
“Mainline Protestant seminaries are facing an existential crisis after a decade of mounting red ink. Enrollment has fallen by nearly 25% over the past decade, according to the Association of Theological Schools, an accrediting agency,” reports the WSJ.