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Search Results for: college closing

Another small Christian college is closing

John Fea   |  June 26, 2024

From the Eastern Nazarene College (Quincy, Massachusetts) website: The Board of Trustees of Eastern Nazarene College today announced it has voted unanimously to begin the process of closing ENC and transitioning it into a new educational enterprise that will carry […]

Another liberal arts college is closing

John Fea   |  March 26, 2024

Birmingham-Southern College, a United Methodist liberal arts college that opened before the Civil War (1856), is closing on May 31. Here is Alabama.Com: After a long fight for a loan from the Alabama legislature, Birmingham-Southern College announced Tuesday that it […]

More reporting on the closing of Alliance University (Nyack College)

John Fea   |  July 2, 2023

Here is Emily Belz at Christianity Today: Alliance University, a 140-year-old Christian & Missionary Alliance (CMA) school in New York City, will close on August 31 after years of financial struggles. Known for much of its history as Nyack College, […]

Ibram X. Kendi moves to Howard University. His Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University is closing.

John Fea   |  January 30, 2025

Here is BU Today: Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research (CAR), says he has decided to leave BU to join Howard University in Washington, DC. CAR will close when its charter with the University […]

Yet another Christian college will close its doors

John Fea   |  July 1, 2024

Last month we called your attention to Clarks Summit University, the Christian college that was staying open this summer thanks to the work of volunteers. Today we learn that the school, formerly known as Baptist Bible College, is closing. I […]

Compassionate college closures: an exhortation

Nadya Williams   |  June 26, 2024

Is it possible to navigate college closings ethically and compassionately?

Birmingham-Southern College’s baseball team will outlast Birmingham-Southern College

John Fea   |  May 26, 2024

On May 31, 2024 the Birmingham-Southern College baseball team is playing in the NCAA Division III College World Series. May 31, 2024 is also the day that Birmingham-Southern College will close. Here is NBC News: The Birmingham-Southern College Panthers advanced […]

Another liberal arts college closes its doors

John Fea   |  April 17, 2024

In the 1970s, Goddard College, a liberal arts school in Plainfield, Vermont with roots that go back to 1863, had 1900 students. Last week the Goddard administration announced the college is closing. It has 220 students. As David Jesse reports […]

LONG FORM: Reimagining the Liberal Arts College

Bradshaw Frey   |  September 11, 2023

The first essay in a forum on what higher education needs now

The Kings College is still open

John Fea   |  July 18, 2023

Faculty are leaving and others are getting cut, but it looks like the The Kings College is still alive. Here is Meagan Saliashvili at Religion News Service: The last remaining evangelical Christian college in New York City, The King’s College, […]

Report: Alliance University (Nyack College) will close

John Fea   |  June 30, 2023

We have posted about the financial troubles of The Kings College. The Christian college is on the brink of closing. Kings is currently located in Manhattan, but from 1955-1994 it existed in Briarcliff Manor, Westchester County, New York. Nyack College […]

The Kings College loses its accreditation

John Fea   |  June 1, 2023

Here is Josh Moody at Inside Higher Ed: Already facing severe financial pressures, the King’s College was dealt another blow last week when the Middle States Commission on Higher Education withdrew its accreditation. In an announcement posted to the MSCHE website, the […]

Springsteen fans: See you in State College

John Fea   |  March 15, 2023

I didn’t think it would happen. I wasn’t sure I wanted it to happen. But my family managed to score some tickets to Bruce Springsteen’s Saturday night show on the campus of Penn State University. Springsteen shows are family events […]

Randall Balmer on the closing of his alma mater

John Fea   |  February 21, 2023

On Monday we called your attention to the closing of Trinity College, the undergraduate college of Trinity International University. In that piece I noted that Randall Balmer, a religion professor at Dartmouth College and one of our best chroniclers of […]

Grove City College alumni back Jemar Tisby

John Fea   |  April 30, 2022

If you are unfamiliar with what is going on Grove City College, get up to speed here. This petition is signed (so far) by 146 Grove City alums: We are writing to voice our concern in response to Grove City […]

Judson College closes

John Fea   |  May 12, 2021

Judson College, an Alabama Baptist women’s college and a member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, has closed. Here is Inside Higher Ed: After teetering on the edge of closure for months, Judson College’s Board of Trustees voted […]

What is DEI anyway?

John Fea   |  March 3, 2025

Here is Conor Friedersdorf at The Atlantic: On President Donald Trump’s first day back in the White House, he issued an executive order ending diversity, equity, and inclusion in the federal government. Its sweeping language forbids DEI “mandates, policies, programs, preferences, […]

“For Wheaton”: Come, Let Us Reason Together

Timothy Larsen   |  February 25, 2025

An open letter to Eric Teetsel, the original signer of “For Wheaton”

Carter: “I come here speaking to you today about your subject with a base for my information founded on Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan.”

John Fea   |  December 31, 2024

This morning I read Randall Balmer’s piece at Politico, “Jimmy Carter: The Last Progressive Evangelical.” Here is the part of Balmer’s article that focuses on Carter’s 1974 Law Day address at the University of Georgia: One of the venerable traditions […]

Building up the evangelical mind: Asbury University Honors Program and Lewis House in Lexington, KY  

Nadya Williams   |  September 23, 2024

Two relatively new institutions are doing great work for the future of the evangelical mind.

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