Notre Dame College in Ohio to Close After Spring Semester
“The school couldn’t close its financial gap and continue to operate independently”
Another one bites the dust. There is more of this to come.
Cleveland.com reports:
Notre Dame College to close after spring semester
Notre Dame College announced that it will close at the end of the spring semester. The college has also worked out agreements so that students can finish their education at nine other colleges and universities.
The South Euclid college, which first opened in 1922, cited financial challenges in its closing announcement. Notre Dame said it has dealt with declining enrollment, rising costs and significant debt — and that these challenges lead the college’s board of trustees to decide to close the institution.
In a news release posted to the college’s website, Notre Dame said it has tried for years to address these issues. That included exploring a merger or acquisition with two other higher ed institutions — one of which was publicly identified as Cleveland State University.
The school couldn’t close its financial gap and continue to operate independently, according to the release.
Notre Dame specifically states in its announcement that it “will conclude its in-person academic instruction,” but didn’t make clear any plans for after the spring semester has ended.
Students with more then 60 completed credit hours, which is roughly two years’ worth of classes, will be eligible for a “Teach-Out” program that lets them finish their current programs. These students will get guaranteed admission to the colleges and universities that are partnering with Notre Dame.
In this program, all of the credits earned at Notre Dame would transfer and students would be able to finish in the same number of semesters as they would have at Notre Dame, according to the college. They would also face a comparable tuition cost at the new school.
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Something I wonder about. When a college closes the doors, what becomes of libraries, laboratory equipment, musical instruments, office machinery, etc?
This what happens when they started accepting trannys to be “inclusive”.
I read and reread the article and find bo reference to this. Do you have a link or two I can read about this admission policy?
Thanks in advance.
Heh, don’t feed the trolls.
What does that even mean, “they started accepting trannys”? It’s a coeducational college, so in what capacity would it be “accepting” transsexuals, as opposed to simply admitting them like all other students of their sex, whatever that happens to be? Why would transsexuals expect not to be admitted to the college, and why would the college want to exclude them?
Having taught at a small Roman Catholic liberal arts college, I’m sad to see this happen. Such institutions are a great place for students who would get lost at big state colleges. They have a real sense of community and have generally been committed to the classical liberal arts (at least that was the case when I taught at one). And they encouraged faith-based values.
But the business model is no longer viable as there aren’t nuns or monks enough to teach at these colleges, and the schools have to live in a world of falling demand and rising operating costs.
It’s a sad end to a good era in higher education.
Perhaps the authors should have made it clear that this is not the well-known university in Indiana, but a small formerly women’s college in Euclid, Ohio,
Obvious point: The three logical sources of covering a college’s deficits would be 1) increased alumni giving, 2) the local community motivated by civil pride and economic development or 3) the Roman Catholic Church.
When all three fail to generate needed funds, market forces dictate a closure or merger.
The college had just lost its religious sponsorship, because the order that had sponsored it since its founding is aging and no longer capable of doing it.