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(04-24-2020 09:28 AM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 01:37 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 12:03 PM)OKIcat Wrote:  

(04-21-2020 11:10 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  Urbana University is shutting its doors for good.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.whio.co...utType=amp

A preview of coming attractions I fear.

Yep, next few on my list would be Antioch, Lourdes, Defiance, Bluffton, or Malone...all are small schools in small towns that have small or non-existent remote learning offerings, with very little support from an over-arching religious sect that has money to support them. I think there will be at least 4 fewer private colleges in Ohio by the end of this year.

Sadly, I think you're right. Many Protestant denominations that founded these colleges in the 19th or 20th centuries are unable to help support the rising cost of higher education. Those churches, and often the colleges, have chosen to part ways from being "religiously affiliated" to be "religiously founded, but independent".

With today's tuition and fees, and severely limited scholarship dollars available to level the playing field with public and larger privates schools, there is no way forward.

Due to the dis-affiliation of some schools, it could aid in their ability to merge instead of folding completely, now that there aren't those pesky different interpretations of a book to separate them. I could see schools like Malone and Walsh or Heidelberg and Tiffin (and Siena Heights and Adrian just above the border in MI) potentially merge to survive if there are absolutely no other ways to operate. Hell Xavier may take a stab at MSJ since they have no dedicated health sciences programs which are highly reliable sources of revenue in today's world of higher education.