Never heard of these universities but Multnomah in Oregon merging with Jessup University. Multnomah will become a satellite campus.
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I live in Oregon and I have never heard of it myself.
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Same!
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I grew up near Multnomah and somewhere but can’t remember did know someone who attended when I was a kid. As far back as I can remember there were stories about financial difficulties and being a purely religious school in a very working class section of the city it didn’t draw many students locally. Students who wanted or needed to study locally had a PCC branch and Warner Pacific College back in the old days.
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Another small catholic college closing in New Hampshire… surprised it lasted as long as it did
Would think Thomas More college of liberal arts should be next in NH with 90 students
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Magdalen College was down to less than 60 (not a typo😦) students!
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Lived in Massachusetts all my life and I never heard of Magdalen College, and I’m Catholic!
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Interesting interview with the president of a small liberal arts college, and his strategy for survival.
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I was unable to read it, but is the premise something that D3 athletics were able to bring in sufficient numbers of student-athletes to raise the population at the schools? Or that the increased school spirit around intercollegiate sports sparked an increase in enrollment? Or…?
That of course schools had to offer great academics, but they had to offer something else meaningful as well, whether it is marching band, or athletics or something else.
Also given the looming demographic cliff, small LACs should be trying to attract kids from big state schools, who may not realize that a small LAC would be better suited to them.
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But can the non-elite (i.e. non-wealthy) ones match the prices of in-state public universities while still being able to fund the LAC experience?
In Pennsylvania, yes. High in-state public university costs plus many, many in-state LACs trying to stay afloat equals good opportunities for a small college experience for those students looking for it. My daughter is attending a small non-elite Pennsylvania LAC for much less than she would have had to pay to attend Penn State.
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Colleges are increasing aid in order to attract students. They are not necessarily able to afford it. The hope is that somehow they will be able to figure out a way to make it work. We will see as time goes on whether or not it works for the long term
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Again, a small college closing down in Oklahoma. Seems they are being forced to sell the campus.
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15% graduation rate.
No one knew a lawsuit was happening.
Hmmm.
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A new closure announcement:
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On 29 November (yep, a whole one day ago!) there was mention in a news article that local government expected them to pull through, since after all they had endowment money: Amid money woes, Saint Rose looks to state for help
Worth noting: When I tried to find what the size of their endowment was last year, I couldn’t find anything. Now admittedly I didn’t spend more than 5 minutes looking, but usually the information is in the first or at least second hit on Google.
Is St. Rose still a Catholic college? I looked at the website and it mentions its founding by an order of sisters but there are no other references to it being Catholic.
Wikipedia says
In 1970, 10 laypersons were added to the board of trustees, and the college became an independent college sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet.
with a book (not available online) cited as the source.
Can’t find anything more recent, though.
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Thanks. Sponsored is a vague term. The website does not even mention that as far as I could tell.
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