Perhaps we can create a second thread? Keep the RIP one for colleges that have announced a closure and then perhaps create a second one called something like: College(s) Sustainability Discussion for when people want to talk about schools with accreditation issues, or financial downgrades, or significant cutbacks, etc? Since actual closures happen much less often than the discussion on sustainability-related questions for particular schools, then the RIP title wouldn’t appear as often in Latest Threads?
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OK I changed the title (anyone can!) What are your thoughts on the current title?
How did the thread get off topic/hijacked anyway? How about we get back to talking about school closings/mergers. IMO its ok to also mention schools with significant financial/budget problems at risk of closing, but conversations about rankings and reviews belong elsewhere.
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Sustainability refers to environmental issues now, e.g net zero carbon. A better term would be “survivability.”
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How about “viability”?
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Thank you!!!
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It can, in many contexts, but not always.
Very confusing word honestly
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Maybe college news that’s not specifically about a closing or merger can should be posted to College Headlines?
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Classics is an interesting one – my father in law ran a small hedge fund and his preferred college hire profile was a Classics major from HYP. Because the big investment banks snapped up all the pristine hires. And it normally correlated with either fancy family, private high school, connections, etc., or incredible smarts from a public school.
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There are a lot of fabulous threads about successful people who were humanities majors. But this is the college closings thread. Can we please stay on topic? Thanks
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