Mergers & Collaboration

A community college district in rural Minnesota plan to merge accreditation and other services to combat enrollment drops.

Concern grows at Watkins College of Art about merger with Belmont.

The Watkins College of Art will merge with Belmont University later this year, joining a growing list of tiny colleges, particularly in the arts, that struggled to go it alone.

As the president of a university that is the result of two consolidations many decades ago, Mark Burstein offers some perspective to institutional leaders today.

By Mark Burstein

Move comes after the tiny Vermont college failed to merge with University of Bridgeport.

Mergers are “one more tactical arrow in a strategic quiver,” according to authors of new book offering practical advice on higher ed M&A.

Far too many campuses don’t make it a priority to immediately deal with what they know can be impending disaster, argues Susan Resneck Pierce.

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Roosevelt University plans to acquire Robert Morris University in Chicago as a shrinking market bears down on the private nonprofit institutions.