How does a college close after 150 years?

I like to think of myself as a student of higher education.

Or perhaps a student on the history of higher education in America. It’s become a bit of a passion. I follow the news, I’ve spent probably way too much time at alumni events, recollecting , reflecting, ruminating… as it were. I can now see how much my own educational experiences shaped me.

Teachers, classrooms, libraries, the interactions among classmates, not even the friends I had back….

Then, even now can form a curious tribe. How we learn, who we learn from, place, setting, curriculum? How it came to be and what’s worth saving can be a toss up between memory, nostalgia, your disposable income and the balance in your checking account after paying all or most of your bills.

This past season or so… colleges and universities and the people that run them are in the news and ever on our minds. Less we forget or lose our memory; so much can easily be taken for granted .

Ahh to my point and triggering trauma event…. My number one eldest grandson pinged a text to me. See the link below ….that is his almost Alma Mater the academic place where he had planned to return to post pandemic: claiming his residency and cutting ties with his place of birth and where he grew up. .. his…