We seem to have gotten off track a bit focusing on individual sports cut by universities/colleges. What is the current tally of colleges that have perminently closed as a result of Covid?
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Originally posted by boatcapt View PostWe seem to have gotten off track a bit focusing on individual sports cut by universities/colleges. What is the current tally of colleges that have perminently closed as a result of Covid?
I was expecting a few more colleges to shut their doors, but they seem to be scraping by. The OP is updated with all closures based on the criteria I'm tracking, but a couple that I haven't listed are Robert Morris University (IL) and branch campuses. They merged with Roosevelt University pre-coronavirus, but I think it just went into effect at the end of the year. Pine Manor College merged with Boston College as well.
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Originally posted by SW_Mustang View Post
Nothing that I've seen, and I check everyday.
I was expecting a few more colleges to shut their doors, but they seem to be scraping by. The OP is updated with all closures based on the criteria I'm tracking, but a couple that I haven't listed are Robert Morris University (IL) and branch campuses. They merged with Roosevelt University pre-coronavirus, but I think it just went into effect at the end of the year. Pine Manor College merged with Boston College as well.
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Originally posted by CALUPA69 View Post
Probably we'll see a lot more mergers than outright closings ala URBANA. A lot of the small campuses have a good deal of history and drawing power but due to administrative incompetence and/or malfeasance, are in a bind. As any one who follows me knows my #1 candidate for this is WU being changed with little difficulty into WVU-WHEELING which I feel could be very viable. Time will tell.
But yes, I think you are correct - I think mergers will be the big player early on, especially in the dense Northeast.
Urbana is interesting because they actually ceased operations in 2014. Since then, they've been operated by Franklin University. FU (lol) retained the name and athletic department, but has since chose to re-allocate resources. Based on what I've read, both UU and FU (lol) aren't that remarkable academically.
Running a list like this is difficult because I'm only interested in scenarios which a campus closes - so many of the mergers don't make the cut based on my definition of closing because they will continue to operate in some spiritual fashion.
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The University of Vermont is closing it's Campus Children's School - in part due to COVID-19. The school is over 80 years old. Tuition is over $14,000 a year(!).
https://vtdigger.org/2020/06/01/uvm-...school-closes/
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This is the former stadium for Morris Brown in Atlanta. It was the site of the Olympic field hockey competition. Reportedly MB is down to 40 students and has lost accreditation.
https://abandonedplaygrounds.com/201...st-apocalypse/
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Originally posted by laker View PostThis is the former stadium for Morris Brown in Atlanta. It was the site of the Olympic field hockey competition. Reportedly MB is down to 40 students and has lost accreditation.
https://abandonedplaygrounds.com/201...st-apocalypse/
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Originally posted by laker View PostThis is the former stadium for Morris Brown in Atlanta. It was the site of the Olympic field hockey competition. Reportedly MB is down to 40 students and has lost accreditation.
https://abandonedplaygrounds.com/201...st-apocalypse/
Herdon Stadium was a popular filming location it seems, being used in at least three sizable movies. The program was a founding member of the SIAC and was briefly a D1 program until being discontinued in 2003.
I'm going to read up more on this school. I'm curious about them. Thanks for posting the link!
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Originally posted by SW_Mustang View Post
Interesting. I've never heard of this college, but I looked them up on Wikipedia and they seem to have a pretty wild history. The president was caught in a massive embezzlement scheme in the late '90s which caused their accredidation to be revoked in the early '00s. The alumni association has pledged to keep the school alive and they are looking at regaining accredidation, almost 20 years after losing it.
Herdon Stadium was a popular filming location it seems, being used in at least three sizable movies. The program was a founding member of the SIAC and was briefly a D1 program until being discontinued in 2003.
I'm going to read up more on this school. I'm curious about them. Thanks for posting the link!
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Originally posted by laker View Post
Gophers hosted them in men's basketball around the year 2000. Gophers beat them but almost all of their games were road paydays. Another school that doesn't have sports anymore is Northeastern Illinois, which was D1 but dropped them in 1998. They were in the Mid-Continent (later called the Summit).Originally posted by laker View Post
Gophers hosted them in men's basketball around the year 2000. Gophers beat them but almost all of their games were road paydays. Another school that doesn't have sports anymore is Northeastern Illinois, which was D1 but dropped them in 1998. They were in the Mid-Continent (later called the Summit).
Oddly enough, Morris Brown gets about 2,500 applications a year. With no accreditation, the school can't provide financial aid so almost all of the students go elsewhere. If they are successful in their quest to gain TRACS accreditation, they might be in a salvageable spot as weird as that is to say. Hopefully they can pull something together.
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Originally posted by SW_Mustang View Post
Interesting way to stay afloat I guess, although it didn't end up working.
Oddly enough, Morris Brown gets about 2,500 applications a year. With no accreditation, the school can't provide financial aid so almost all of the students go elsewhere. If they are successful in their quest to gain TRACS accreditation, they might be in a salvageable spot as weird as that is to say. Hopefully they can pull something together.
Got so say that I'm rooting for them, provided they do it right! I like these counted out by everyone, never say die, rise from the grave stories.
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Originally posted by CALUPA69 View Post
Probably we'll see a lot more mergers than outright closings ala URBANA. A lot of the small campuses have a good deal of history and drawing power but due to administrative incompetence and/or malfeasance, are in a bind. As any one who follows me knows my #1 candidate for this is WU being changed with little difficulty into WVU-WHEELING which I feel could be very viable. Time will tell.Cal U (Pa.) Class of 2014
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Originally posted by ctrabs74 View Post
I would suspect that the state universities in West Virginia (WVU, Marshall, West Liberty, Fairmont State, Glenville State, Bluefield State, Concord and Shepherd) are in their own financial binds, so it just doesn't make much sense for WVU to take over the Wheeling campus. Presuming there are still financial issues at Wheeling University, why would the state of WV want to add more debt on the taxpayers?
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