“Hampshire College closure highlights financial strain on small liberal arts schools” — what this page in the network covers. After years of financial decline, Hampshire College, a liberal arts college in Massachusetts, has announced it will close at the end of the year. 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.
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