Bard College at Simon’s Rock Closing Campus in Massachusetts
“sustaining the campus in Great Barrington is no longer feasible”
What’s happening here is the same story we have heard from other schools. Cratering enrollment.
Inside Higher Ed reports:
Bard College at Simon’s Rock Campus Closing
Bard College at Simon’s Rock is shutting down its campus in Great Barrington, Mass., and moving the academic programs to a location near the institution’s main site in New York.
Administrators cited enrollment challenges at the Bard College at Simon’s Rock campus, which admits students after the 10th or 11th grade and allows them to begin college classes early.
“After many years of declining enrollment revenue and the competitive market of early college offerings around the country, sustaining the campus in Great Barrington is no longer feasible,” Simon’s Rock provost John B. Weinstein wrote in a statement announcing the move.
Weinstein noted the campus had been active for 60 years.
In a separate news release, Bard president Leon Botstein noted that Simon’s Rock was “the pioneer of early college” and credited the site for its success, which led to “10 public early college high school campuses founded by Bard in six states and more than 1 million high school students nationwide taking early college courses this year.” Botstein added that a location adjacent to the main campus will give “Simon’s Rock the opportunity to continue its mission.”
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So many of these colleges and universities have bloated administration staff that add little, if anything, to the education of their students, and much of that bloat comes from the obsession with D.E.I. and C.R.T. which alienates so many young prospective students. In addition, so much of education, academics, pedagogy today fails to prepare young students for employment outside of academia.
If you don’t have a reasonably clear idea how you intend to support yourself going forward
then you’ve got no business shelling out thousands of dollars “to explore and to yourself.”
Nobody goes to the airport and waits on the TSA security line … without having a reasonably clear idea why they are at the airport.
to ^find^ yourself
It costs more than $85,000 a year to go to Bard when you count tuition, room and board and various other fees. No surprise they are closing to move to some other location. If you have bonds for any small private college you might want to think about selling them.
Unfortunately, it is a national security issue.
Jamaal Bowman entered congress with more than 6-figure student loan indebtedness. Along with wife and children. Now he shills publicly for those who seek to destroy America.
He’s not alone.