College and the demographics cliff

[WolvEagle]

I've periodically been checking the Concordia University-Ann Arbor website (I used to live/work near there). As stated earlier in the thread, the entire athletic program is being dropped at the end of this school year and there will be limited academic programs in 2025-26. Now, all 2025-26 clashes will be at a building about a mile north of campus, and campus ashets are being evaluated as to whether CUAA will keep them - including its chapel and the Manor, which was an Underground Railroad stop and is the first building you see when you drive onto the main campus.

The entire campus is primo land for redevelopment, especially since there are high-end houses nearby and the southern part of the main campus (which includes the Manor and chapel) is along the Huron River.

Considering how much of a drain CUAA is on the Concordia system (namely the Wisconsin campus), CUAA isn't long for this world. They should pull the plug sooner than later.

 

[tapintoamerica]

They read SJ?

America is nearing a "demographic cliff" as the sharp decline in 18-year-olds threatens higher education and the economy

This is what Trumpists have been praying for since 1980.

 

[I Should Coco]

They read SJ?

America is nearing a "demographic cliff" as the sharp decline in 18-year-olds threatens higher education and the economy

Since the story never bothers to mention a town, I will note that Iowa Wesleyan is/was in Mount Pleasant. Not much else to say about that southeast Iowa town without that small private college there.

 

[dixiehack]

This is what Trumpists have been praying for since 1980.

Probably at least the late 60s with the anti-war movements on campus.

 

[Twirling Time]

It worked out like this.

Lock Haven and Mansfield are now run out of Bloomsburg as Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania - Mansfield and Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania - Lock Haven.

Clarion and Edinboro are now run out of California (Pa.) as PennWest-Clarion and PennWest-Edinboro.

All four schools maintain their unique extracurricular and athletic identities. But the two new entities, Commonwealth University and PennWest, are run with singular accreditations. The other four are now really "branch campuses," but don't try to tell them that.

Incidentally -- Notre Dame is no more.

The wrong Notre Dame folded.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[dixiehack]

Troy is shutting down its branch campus in Phenix City, Ala., which should have been done years and years ago and arguably never spun up to begin with. Not only is Auburn a half-hour away, but Russell County residents get in-state tuition at Columbus State right across the river in Georgia.

https://www.al.com/education/2025/0...loses-one-of-its-campuses-after-50-years.html

 

[Mr._Graybeard]

Northland College in Ashland, Wis., going under.
https://www.wpr.org/education/ashland-northland-college-closing-barb-lundberg

 

[I Should Coco]

Troy is shutting down its branch campus in Phenix City, Ala., which should have been done years and years ago and arguably never spun up to begin with. Not only is Auburn a half-hour away, but Russell County residents get in-state tuition at Columbus State right across the river in Georgia.

https://www.al.com/education/2025/0...loses-one-of-its-campuses-after-50-years.html

Help a Yankee out … is that pronounced just like the Arizona city?

 

[dixiehack]

Technically yes, but the "o" sound sometimes gets lost in the local patois.

Phenix City was a notorious mid-20th century haven for brothels, gambling parlors, shot houses, etc. All of this was targeted at the soldiers stationed at what was then Fort Benning, just a few minutes drive away.

A local lawyer was finally convinced to run for state attorney general to get rid of all the illegal joints (and bought-off cops) once and for all. But after he won the Democratic primary he was ashashinated. That was finally enough to make the governor clean it all out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_martial_law_in_Russell_County,_Alabama

There was a mid-50s movie that feels like melodrama until you realize it stayed pretty faithful to the events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phenix_City_Story

 

[Twirling Time]

Phenix City is on de facto Eastern time because of its connections to Columbus and the fort.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Phenix City is on de facto Eastern time because of its connections to Columbus and the fort.

Meaning they don't change clocks? Looks like they're on Eastern time during the summer and Central otherwise. Is that right?