It's interesting to watch colleges and univs merging or closing down completely.

It's obviously small universities at this point. Sad if they're closing altogether, interesting and kind of neat if they're merging with other universities.


This is happening mostly in the north and Midwest and west.

The saddest in the south IMO was Birmingham Southern closing altogether, classified as a financial necessity, but the lack of enrollment was caused by being in an absolute terrible crime-ridden part of town.

One interesting one, Martin (TN) Methodist, a private university, merged or is merging with public UT-Martin
ETA: nope, I was wrong about that. It's Martin Methodist but merging with some UT system in Pulaski TN, not UT Martin

Arkansas, weeks ago, played "Queens University of Charlotte NC" and I was thinking "who? Where did they come from?" Well, Queens and Elon are merging and it will be final this coming summer.

Some little public college around Statesboro is merging with Georgia Southern.

Up north, the most interesting is the merger of three universities. Clarion (where John Calipari played basketball) is merging with Cal-PA and Edinboro. So their current public relations pic is this...



They will be renamed "Pennsylvania Western" and will have an enrollment of more than 10K

Some tiny little thing called "Pine Manor College" in Boston is merging with Boston College.



pretty cool link here on it
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