merge with 'em How Rival State Colleges Are Merging To Become Northern Vermont University | Vermont Public Radio
I've liked Johnson State College for their low residency MFA program in conjunction with the extraordinary Vermont Studio Center which is also in Johnson VT. (The little town is something of an artist's colony, apparently.) Low-Residency MFA Program | Johnson State College Vermont Studio Center
Not a big surprise here. There's been some talk here in Illinois about this kind of thing. Some of the things I have read or heard about include: Something along the lines of the "State University System of Illinois" which would include any public university outside the University of Illinois system. The alleged purpose is to have shared governance to reduce administrative bloat among other things. Closing Northeastern Illinois and Chicago State, two small and struggling schools, and merging them into the University of Illinois at Chicago. It's all speculative but NONE of these things would come as a shock to me.