https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/05/08/college-vp-sends-email-possible-closure
Holy Cross in Indiana? With only 500 students and a $3mm endowment it sounds likely; the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA is thriving with 2,800 students and a $700mm endowment.
The article is about Holy Cross, Indiana
Interesting- this would affect the Gateway program they have in conjunction with Norte Dame.
Oh the perils of email!!! 
One would think that with all of the Notre Dame alumni that have transferred from there, they would alott some of their contributions to Holy Cross
@SalveMater As I understand it ND and Holy Cross are two distinct schools and two separate legal entities. I don’t think it would appropriate (or likely not even legal) for ND to send some of the school’s contributions to Holy Cross. Percentage-wise very few alumni have come to ND via Holy Cross. My H and S are ND alums who donate and I don’t think they would be happy to see their contributions being sent off to another college (regardless of how worthy the school might be).
ND’s Gateway program does send a number of students to Holy Cross for a year which likely helps Holy Cross out.
@happy1 wow, that’s news to me? While I was aware of their separateness, I understood that the majority of HC students transfer to ND - which explains HC’s very low graduation rate due to transfers. I would just think that if you got into ND through HC, you would show HC some love at fundraising time? Apparently not.
“Percentage-wise very few alumni have come to ND via Holy Cross.”
Yeah, but RUDY was a HCC transfer student!
The HCC/ND gateway program is like 60 freshman kids a year. Usually legacy applicants who were close misses for ND admission.
HCC and ND are two separate colleges, but both operated by the HC religious order. Right across the street from each other. HCC kids (and especially the Gateway kids) get to participate in a lot of things on the ND campus.
HCC started out as a two year college, but I guess is struggling as a 4 year institution. You’d think the HC order and ND would be involved in many ways to help come up with a plan for HCC’s future. And also the HCC/ND alumni, which is a different group from the ND alumni.
“Oh the perils of email!!!”
Sounds like one of those “gotta get away” commercials from Southwest.
^^ That’s what I’m saying. Just doesn’t make any sense. Saint Mary’s, where my daughter attends, ministered by the same order as ND and HC, yet has an enormous endowment from despite only having about 300 grads a year. I don’t get it.
@northwesty maybe that was a purposeful accident as it has brought their imminent closure to the forefront?
@SalveMater Not to be harsh, but it is up to the people who went through Holy Cross to donate to the school. I don’t know thow many people from HC transfer to ND, I just know from the ND website that the Gateway program is about 60 students per year. http://admissions.nd.edu/gateway-program/faq/
When I said “percentage-wise very few alumni have come to ND via Holy Cross” I meant that very few students out of the total ND population attended HC first and then transferred to ND. I don’t know how many or what percentage of HC students transfer to ND.
I do hope the school finds a way to make it.
The Sisters of the Holy Cross, who run St Mary’s College, is a different organization than the priests who run Holy Cross College and ND – same name, Holy Cross, but different organizations.
Here’s a link to the South Bend Tribune’s news article on the Holy Cross college situation:
http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/education/holy-cross-college-told-to-produce-plan-to-get-out/article_5d051024-7ba6-5170-8e78-667ed5497ffd.html