What is an interesting list... URL: https://www.educationdive.com/news/tracker-college-and-university-closings-and-consolidation/539961/ Institution State Year Type Deal Dive Insight Tunxis Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Three Rivers Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Quinebaug Valley Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Norwalk Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Northwestern Connecticut Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Naugatuck Valley Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Middlesex Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Manchester Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Housatonic Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Gateway Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Capital Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Asnuntuck Community College CT 2023 (expected) Public Consolidating administration Dive Insight Valparaiso University Law School IN 2020 (expected) Private Closed Dive Insight University of Wisconsin-Waukesha WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) University of Wisconsin-Washington County WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) University of Wisconsin-Rock County WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) University of Wisconsin-Richland WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Platteville) University of Wisconsin-Marshfield WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) University of Wisconsin-Marathon County WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point) University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh) University of Wisconsin-Barron County WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire) University of Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County WI 2020 (expected) Public Merged (University of Wisconsin-Platteville) Memphis College of Art TN 2020 (expected) Private Closed Marlboro College VT 2020 (expected) Private Merger (University of Bridgeport) College of New Rochelle NY 2019 (expected) Private Closed
Pretty much any school that relies almost exclusively on tuition and doesn't have a massive endowment to fall back on can be on a list like this. Even the public schools these days derive such a small amount of their budgets from public funding. So it's just a scramble to catch the federal dollars that ED throws out into the wind.