Cazenovia College is closing at the end of the spring semester. According to Inside Higher Ed , the college missed a bond payment due to fi...

Freshman enrollment dropped an astonishing  13 percent last year, and overall college enrollment sank 4 percent.  What accounts for this ex...

 After 12 years of declining enrollments and a massive budget deficit, Guilford College is taking drastic action. President Carol Moore prop...

Moody's Investor Services reported recently that 1 in 5 small, private colleges face "fundamental stress" and that as many as ...

Bill Conley, Vice President for Enrollment Management at Bucknell University, wrote a perceptive essay for Chronicle of Higher Education  a...

Over the course of my life,  I have witnessed the death of several friends and relatives; and some of them did not die a good death. My fa...

General George Washington fought a brilliant campaign in the Delaware Valley during the winter of 1776-1777, but he knew when to fold his ca...

James Howard Kunstler posted an essay a few days ago containing his predictions for American higher education in the coming year. He predic...

I'm a Methodist, Methodist 'tis my belief I'm a Methodist till die Till old grim death comes a knockin' at the door ...

Mills College is one of several dozen private liberal arts colleges that are struggling to survive. Rick Seltzer's excellent story on M...

St. Joseph's College, which was founded in 1889, is  shutting its doors in May. Officials cited several reasons for  closing: fierce com...

My father was a fighter pilot in the Army Air Corps in December, 1941, stationed at Clark Field in the Philippines. He often told this story...

Small liberal arts colleges are in trouble all over the United States. They're having a heck of a time attracting students, as families ...

According to a survey conducted by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, private colleges discounted their t...

If something can't go on forever, the old bromide goes, it won't. America's small, private liberal arts colleges can't go on...