Wednesday, June 19, 2019

The Surreal End of an American College [theatlantic.com]

The flava:
Like most other colleges across the country, Newbury College, a small, private liberal-arts school in Brookline, Massachusetts, held classes through the end of this past spring semester and then bid farewell to cap-and-gown-wearing seniors. But unlike almost every other college, those classes, and that farewell, were the school’s last: Newbury officially ceased operations at the end of May.

The article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/06/what-its-like-when-your-college-shuts-down/591862

1 comment:

  1. They were charging huge amounts to marginal students to go to a no name school. They deserved to go under.

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