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Filmmaker Ken Burns on the closing of his alma mater
“I think there’s an inability for those people who have wealth in the country to understand and value something like Hampshire. It was dedicated to a transformational education, in an era when higher education has been hijacked by the transactional: A college education is, to some, like a Louis Vuitton handbag. And that’s not Hampshire.”
Monday, April 13, 2026
More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, a new projection shows [ NPR ]
The flava:
More than a dozen newborn lambs cavorted around a fenced-in yard beneath the scrutiny of their mothers and a few watchful students taking turns attending to them.
The lambs' successful births have been a needed bright spot at tiny Sterling College, which uses a 130-acre farm to teach agriculture and other disciplines in a part of northeastern Vermont so isolated there's no cell service and it's rare to see a passing car.
LillyAnne Keeley, a senior, likes that remoteness. "We have a beautiful view," said Keeley, in the barn where she's come for her turn checking on the lambs. "There are beautiful sunsets here. I kind of take it for granted every day."
She and her classmates have started taking such experiences less for granted now, since Sterling has announced that it will close in May at the end of this semester.
They're not the last students around the country who will suffer such disruption. A new estimate projects that 442 of the nation's 1,700 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities, with a combined 670,000 students, are at risk of closing or having to merge within the next 10 years. . . .
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