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(04-22-2020 11:37 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

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(04-21-2020 10:38 PM)Ragpicker Wrote:  Student health crisis is far more likely from binge drinking and bad weed. Please remember the stats that say there is virtually no harm to those under 40.

And private colleges wirh small endowments will have no choice to open or face permanent closure. Seriously, who is going to pay $45,000 and up to take online courses from your bedroom at Xavier, Denison, or Oberlin? They are businesses and just like your barber, or salon for you metrosexuals, they need lots of customers to stay afloat.

You picked the three private institutions with huge endowments...$170M, $840M, and $945M respectively. If you're trying to find schools with small endowments and non-existent remote learning options, look no further than Defiance, Bluffton, Antioch, Malone, and Lourdes. At least a few of them are going the way of the dodo here shortly unless quite a few things change....they all have endowments under $20M, which likely wouldn't even cover a year of expenses, and all of them have seen enrollment declines of 20%+ in the last 5-8 years.

To that point, Urbana is shutting its doors:

https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200421/o...enrollment

Yep, they're the model I'm using to identify the other institutions at highest risk. Lower than 2,000 enrollment, lower than $20M endowment, decline in enrollment over 4 years and unsustainable athletics footprint.

I could also see some mergers occurring, namely Malone/Walsh and Tiffin/Heidelberg

What about Thomas More and Mount St. Joe's? They're both right at that 2,000 student, $20 million endowment line. Have they had declining enrollment?

The Mount's biggest programs are in nursing and biology, which helps because those degrees actually lead to good paying jobs.

I didn't look at Kentucky schools since I'm no longer in the Tri-State area. Mount St. Joes would definitely be in that risk area.