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ED Approves Bay Path Acquisition of Cambridge College
‘Novel’ Partnership Sours Into ‘Hostile Takeover’
Three years after Antioch and Otterbein Universities partnered to widen student access to academic programs, Otterbein’s president led an effort to dissolve Antioch’s board and fire its new president. Antioch has taken legal action to preserve its autonomy.
New College of Florida Absorbs a USF Campus. Sort Of.
The property has changed hands, but the students and employees didn’t go with it. And there’s a reversion clause if New College can’t handle the debt.
2 Oakland Community Colleges Merge
The Peralta Community College District is turning two of its colleges into one. Some faculty, staff and students say the move is rushed.
Second Acts for Closed Campuses
When colleges close, they leave sprawling facilities behind. Some are acquired by other colleges or converted into housing, K–12 schools or businesses. Others fall into disrepair.
The Key Podcast: Why Match Matters in M&A
No, Higher Ed Mergers Have Never Been Strategic
The history of two universities that (e)merged in the 1960s shows that parochialism and acquisitiveness have always driven institutional marriages more than logic.
When Two Become One
The once-verboten idea of mergers and strategic partnerships is shedding its stigma in some corners of higher ed.