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Hampshire College, which counts filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, is closing later this year
The college will refund deposits and use partner schools to help current students finish degrees as enrollment fell 11.3% last year, officials said.
- Hampshire College, which counts filmmaker Ken Burns among its alumni, is closing later this year after facing financial pressure.
- The college's Board of Trustees voted to close after the fall semester, citing insufficient revenue from efforts like enrollment increases, debt refinancing, and land sales.
- College closures have become increasingly common, driven by factors such as declining birth rates and fewer high school graduates heading to college since the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Hampshire closure highlights strain on liberal arts colleges
After years of financial decline, Hampshire College, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts, has announced it will close at the end of the year. But the college is hardly alone. A new estimate projects that nearly 450 of the nation’s 1,700 private, nonprofit colleges and universities are at risk of closing or having to merge within the next decade. Geoff Bennett discussed more with Jon Marcus.
Iconic Leftist Hampshire College Permanently Closing at End of the Year
"Despite pursuing a financial sustainability plan and raising more than $55 million through its Change in the Making campaign, efforts in enrollment growth, debt refinancing and land development did not yield a viable path forward."
One of higher ed’s most LGBTQ-inclusive colleges is shutting down
Trustees for Hampshire College voted to shutter the small liberal arts school in Amherst, Massachusetts, part of the Five College Consortium, a cooperative network that allows students to take classes and share resources across five nearby campuses.College President Jennifer Chrisler, Trustee Chair Jose Fuentes, and Trustee Chair-elect Elle Chan announced the decision Thursday, saying it followed years of mounting financial challenges that the c…
A farewell to Hampshire College, site of my Yiddish awakening
Zay gezunt Hampshire College. That’s where as an undergrad student worker, I first studied Yiddish at the OG Yiddish Book Center of Amherst, Massachusetts, down the road from the genteel Lord Jeffrey Inn, across the street from uber-sensitive poet lady Emily Dickinson’s alte heym. In nearby Holyoke, in an old mill turned Yiddish book storage loft, away from the genius of Dickinson’s dybbuk, I earned my way shelving the Book Center’s staggering a…
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