Wow, this circled the drain pretty quickly.
For the record, there are LOTS of struggling institutions, many of which are NOT LAC’s in the midwest where it gets a lot of snow or otherwise have some objectionable quality (I didn’t know snow was a problem… a lot of kids post on CC looking for colleges where they can ski twice a week and AFAIK that’s not happening from U Alabama.)
Queens University of Charlotte (for example) got a lot of press (and attention on CC) for its recent merger with Elon. Birmingham Southern. Mills College merger with Northeastern (which was a Hail Mary pass to save the school).
Colleges struggle, close, merge, etc. for lots of complex reasons. Not having a nursing school has impacted SOME. Not having the other pre-professional majors have impacted SOME. But I don’t notice HS kids shunning Stanford because they can’t major in “Travel and Tourism” or HS kids shunning Amherst because they can’t study agronomy.