It turns out that Bard apparently plans to keep their DE program, but move it closer (adjacent?) to the Bard campus? That’s totally what it sounds like here, but the language used is kind of opaque in important places.
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I agree it’s as clear as mud!
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Perhaps as their network of high schools expands, they want one “at home,” so to speak. And enrolled high school students from elsewhere can fill up some dorms and eat lunchroom food.
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I did a summer program at Simon’s Rock as a high school kid in '92 and it was such a neat place! I’m sure DE programs have impacted it’s enrollments…
My reading is the same as @dfbdfb’s…I think they’re closing the campus at Simon Rock and moving the high school/early college to a building near the main campus while also keeping their various Bard Early College programs at high schools across the country.
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It’s officially! Cal Maritime is metering with Cal Poly!
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For students, this means that students wanting the Maritime programs will face a much higher admission threshold. CSU Maritime Academy is non-impacted, and admits at the CSU baseline (a-g course work completed with 2.5 weighted-capped HS GPA). CPSLO is the most selective CSU campus.
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Hope this is relevant to this topic: resources that can help parents assess the financial viability of a college and the probability of its closing came up in the Class of 2025 forum, and this YouTube show seems like a good resource, especially for lesser known schools:
The college financial health show with Matt Hendricks and Gary Stocker
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FYI - see article today from the Washington Post (hopefully this is a gift link) - Rural Students’ Options Shrink as Colleges Slash Majors
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It’s a complicated issue and is part of the reason some of the PASSHE schools have stayed open much longer than makes economic sense.
At least in the current marketplace, there are good/legit fully online college degree that can be options for any number of students, including those living in rural areas, and there is growth in these online platforms (even among traditional age students.) I am not talking about for profit online schools but schools like Western Governors’, Southern New Hampshire, ASU, etc.
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I agree in theory and it’s great for many disciplines. It’s hard to imagine someone getting a BS in Mechanical Engineering in a fully online program- ditto nursing and other “hands on” professions. At some point, you need to blow something up or jab an actual human being!
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I understand your point, but in nursing all but the clinicals can be done online now…and plenty of people are doing that (primarily in RN or ADN to BSN programs). Here’s Western Governor’s program: RN to BSN Degree Online | Nursing Bachelor's Programs | WGU
As of 2022, WGU has granted about 60K nursing bachelor’s degrees: https://www.utahfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/WGU-_-Nursing-brief-UtahFoundation-8-2022.pdf
I am not saying online education is a desirable option for everyone and every major. What I am saying is that it can be a viable option for those who live in rural areas without access to a CC or 4 year college. And that’s a good thing because more and more directional/rural/underperforming colleges are going to contract and/or flat out close.
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I was surprised - but my nurse at a major academic hospital - this is her bachelor degree school - so it’s certainly possible.
Aspen University is dedicated to offering any motivated college-worthy student the opportunity to receive a high quality, responsibly priced distance-learning education for the purpose of achieving sustainable economic and social benefits for themselves and their families.
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University of North Dakota offers mostly online/ distance engineering majors, but students do have to come to campus for lab course work.
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Similarly, to take one concrete example, Alaska has such a widely-dispersed population—and one-third of the state lives in communities that aren’t even attached to the road system!!—that online availability of a number of degrees, perhaps particularly including healthcare, is a must. Thus, robust online offerings plus a number of “community campuses” of the three public universities scattered around the state.
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An improved quantitative model for predicting college closures just dropped!
Kelchen, Robert J., Dubravka Ritter & Douglas A. Webber. 2024. Predicting college closures and financial distress. NBER Working Paper Series. Working paper 33216. Cambridge, Massachusetts: National Bureau of Economic Research. http://www.nber.org/papers/w33216
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Yet another PA college in trouble! Keystone College accreditation withdrawn.
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William Jewell in Liberty Missouri just announced that “Following extensive analysis and thoughtful deliberation, the William Jewell College Board of Trustees has voted to declare financial exigency…”
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Yet another Art college merging/ Closing! Cornish College of the Art will merge with Seattle University
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I don’t think Barnard is closing anytime soon, but $252M is a lot of debt, with deficit spending each year…resulting in cuts to benefits. Their endowment is less well funded than other womens’ colleges as well. I wonder if they could lose their independence and be subsumed by Columbia? (I have no idea the structures of these two schools)
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