Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 28, 2023

In the past three years, at least a dozen private, nonprofit universities and colleges in rural areas or that serve rural students have closed or announced their closings. Iowa Wesleyan University, one school that the USDA has been aiding, has had an estimated $55.1

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 26, 2023

In recent years, several public universities have absorbed formerly massive for-profit colleges in a series of controversial deals. A few years later, in 2020, the University of Arizona, a public land-grant institution, purchased for-profit Ashford University in a deal that included roughly 35,000 students—all online.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2019

Some of those mergers were huge ( Purdue acquiring Kaplan , Strayer acquiring Capella, National University System acquiring Northcentral ). In addition, 14 nonprofit universities closed and five merged while 36 public institutions merged or consolidated. This is up from 34% in 2017. This is huge.

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