They could theoretically combine some administrative functions, but I honestly don’t see how this particular setup will cut costs. I’m pretty sure no one making the decisions actually listened to the folks who do the work. As usual.
Findlay, like Notre Dame listed a few posts above, recruited my daughter. A lot of the Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky schools did. She had very little interest in that type of school (smaller, LAC-ish schools; she was okay with the STEM schools that might have been a little smaller). An older teammate from hs had gone to Findlay so she was on ‘the list.’ My daughter was pretty good at her sport, but they were also interested in her as she was a top student but not so tippy top that Yale or Cornell were after her. She was a good academic match for these schools except that she wanted engineering.
But yes, they are really trying to attract students through athletics. Sadly, I don’t think it is working. Her friend who started at Findlay didn’t finish there.
They should have checked with Franklin University which took over Urbana and tried to run it as a separate campus but failed. I think both schools want to keep their religious connection but ultimately Bluffton doesn’t have the enrollment numbers with only 700.
College of the Fenway was an idea to share resources but at the end Wheelock decided to merge with Boston U. 2007 birth will be the peak and they will head to college in a year. After that it’s going to be a struggle
Unfortunately paywalled but my hubris tells me Pitt campuses outside Pittsburgh & places such as Carlow.
I saw mention of Duquesne as being too big for the article but I noticed they have become a profile school wanting both parents info which makes me think they want to give fewer need based scholarships.
Birmingham-Southern has announced their closure effective 31 May.
This one made me sadder than most of these do.
Inestimably so. There are so few liberal arts colleges in the deep south that this feels particularly painful.
That sucks! I kind of figured it was going to be a goner, though, when the news came out a few months ago about their possible financial problems.
It’s a pretty little campus.
Truly sad. This was a fine school, with a long history of great education. As someone who loves liberal arts colleges, and who grew up in the South, this is depressing. (As opposed to the “closing” of New College, which elicited different emotions.)
What happened to New college is beyond unfortunate. Funny story about B-S. A bunch of us (adults) were there for a visit, and after the tour we were talking with the student “ambassadors”. I can’t recall exactly how the question was asked, but one of the adults asked about religious opportunities for Jewish students. One of the young ladies responded that they had vans to take them “to the Jewish churches”.
Oak Point University in Chicago shutting down
Absolutely. This one is a hearbreaker.
Goddard College in VT closing at end of this semester:
Flagler College closing its Tallahassee branch in Florida.
Now we wait for Vermont College of Fine Arts to follow Goddard, Burlington, college of St Joseph, Green Mountain, Marlboro, New England Culinary Institute and the colleges that now make up Vermont State University (even VSU is struggling)
… and, for your VT list, RIP Southern Vermont College as well.
Maybe Mrs Goddard could avert insolvency by applying to Mr Woodhouse for a loan?
I’ll see myself out.
We don’t talk about these schools - but they’re out there and more closings are coming. Some are names we know about too…but on the CC, we often talk about just the biggies, etc.
Unfortunately, we will see a lot of closures in the future. Fewer college age students, more pressure to keep net price low, higher costs to run everything related to higher education … it’s real. Schools are trying new ideas to stay afloat, but I suspect a lot of it is just kicking the can down the road.
There’s a handful of colleges that are richer than small countries, and have people lining up to full-pay coa’s approaching six figures per year. And then thousands of struggling schools that are moving money around, trying to figure out how to keep the lights on. It pretty much mirrors escalating economic inequality among individuals. It’s discouraging that everything has to be this way.