Mergers & Collaboration

Pine Manor College has struggled financially for years, but pandemic-related challenges helped push it into a merger deal with nearby Boston College.

Tensions escalated between the Watkins College of Art's board and those working to keep the school independent, and a process server was threatened with a gun.

Controversial bill came out of the blue, according to critics at public colleges. Supporters in the Legislature say it will likely be reconsidered next year.

Private nonprofit college plans to absorb part of a shuttered for-profit chain. Backers say the business college stood out from its peers and provides key competencies for educating working adults online.

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.