Mergers & Collaboration

After Mount Ida College closure, Massachusetts proposals grapple with whether colleges should disclose shutdown possibilities and when regulators should step in.

Buyer commits to keeping Westminster on its Princeton campus for 10 years and maintaining current academics for five, but opponents of the deal are unimpressed.

To confront the facts and take action is wiser than to be nostalgic about a bygone era, argues Frank H. Wu.

They won’t get easier, given the financial realities many of those institutions face today, write David Chard and Mary Churchill.

Susan Henking shares some of the fundamental lessons she learned in merging the college she led with another.

Will merging institutions strengthen the system or hasten its decline, asks Tara DaPra, who has taught at one of its four-year universities as well as in its community colleges.

Boston University and Wheelock College enter talks to combine the institutions.

It represents five broad trends that all higher education institutions should heed, writes Melanie Ho.