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US College Closings Worry Educators
American higher education experts are concerned that small colleges closed at a high rate in 2023.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
They say college closures can prevent students from finishing their study programs and take away some of the country’s unique education offerings.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
The website HigherEd Dive notes 26 American colleges and universities either closed or announced their plans to close in 2023.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
About half that number closed or announced their closing in 2022. The colleges that closed this year were privately funded and mostly small.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
They were facing a loss of money and a drop in student numbers. Some schools closed completely, while others combined with nearby schools.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
Most offered students a chance to finish their study programs or move on to another school nearby.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
Although the schools made efforts to assist their students, professors and others who worked at the colleges lost their jobs.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
The university was started by Christian missionaries in New York City in 1880.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
It offered mostly religious study programs until the 1960s and 1970s, when it expanded to offer programs in education and business.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
At one point, the university had close to 3,000 students.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
But the publication Inside Higher Ed reports that the number had dropped below 2,000 in recent years.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
The school had a budget shortfall of many millions of dollars that it could not make up.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
After an accreditor reviewed the school’s situation last summer, the university announced its plan to close.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
An accreditor is a group that permits colleges and universities to operate. Heather Garcia worked at the school for many years.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
She also took classes and earned two science degrees there. She said the university asked the accreditor for more time to improve its finances.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
However, the group decided the school’s plan was not strong enough. She said the school was going “deeper into debt each year.”
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US College Closings Worry Educators
Garcia also noted that the student population continued to drop after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
The school knew it was in trouble. It had started new professional training programs in an effort to attract more students.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
It had also tried to cut spending. But the decision still came as a surprise.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
Some students were able to finish their study programs over the summer. But others needed to move to new schools.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
Garcia said she felt especially bad for new students and for those who had come to play on the school’s sports teams.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
Last year, the organization produced a report that looked at students affected by college closures. The report covered 467 schools that closed between 2004 and 2020.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
The major concern of SHEEO is that students whose studies get interrupted by a closure often do not go on to graduate.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
More than half of students do not continue with their studies. Among those who do, only about 37 percent finish their degree.
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US College Closings Worry Educators
In some cases, students do not get their school fees returned. In other cases, students have trouble getting their school records to send to other universities.
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