This week:

+ Closed college bails on faculty and students. Don’t let this happen to you.

+ Universities cut over 9,000 jobs in 2025

+ How about a public college that graduated 6% of its students in 2023 getting public funds to build a multi-million dollar STEM building?

+ Is there a coordinated effort by some in higher education to write stories trying to deny that the industry is in decline?

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Show notes and link:
Free MyCollegeViabilty.com financial health report on private colleges

Now I have to start over' | Students left in dark after Martin University closes

Struggling Western Mass. college misses enrollment goal by half

Universities cut over 9,000 jobs in 2025 as Trump targets federal funding: report

Rider University Creates $2M ‘Hope’ Fund to Help Students Pay Tuition as it Faces Cuts, Layoffs

UC San Diego math weakness story has legs.

After No-Confidence Vote, University Of Nebraska Chancellor To Resign

The college backlash is a mirage

The curious disconnect between the data and the vibes of higher education

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Today:

+ Martin University terminates staff (without pay), encourages students to transfer

+ Rider University (NJ) placed on probation

+ A potential college president foot-in-mouth story

+ Another college tries to spin bad news into a ‘Comeback kid’ kind of story

+ From Dow Jones Market Watch and Morningstar: ‘They're in their 60s and still paying off student loans. College debt in America now lasts a lifetime.’

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The final 2025 podcast for This Week in College Viability.

This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.

This week's stories include:

+ Lots of layoff and cutback stories today

+ A college without a library. (Bloomberg News story I was quoted in) That is the position that Albright College since 2019

+ Merry Christmas from your friendly accreditor

+ College Bankruptcies Are Coming

+ The Higher education market is adjusting: Case in point: Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wants merger of higher education and labor departments

Show notes and links:

+ Oklahoma regents vote to cut 41 ‘low-producing’ academic programs

+ Enrollment declining at WIU campuses (Western Illinois University)

+ Martin University’s abrupt closure disrupts student plans, angers alumni

+ Guilford College comes off accreditor probation after budget cuts

+ Christian Brothers University out of financial probation after 2 years

+ College of Idaho’s ‘shift’ of resources comes with layoffs

+ Why a College Fighting for Survival Is Slashing Econ and Physics Majors

+ The Price of Waiting Too Long to Close

+ College Bankruptcies Are Coming

+ Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wants merger of higher education and labor departments

+ The College Viability Manifesto