The following are some notable closures:

Finlandia University (Mich.): Did not enroll students beginning in fall 2023, citing a lack of interest from high school students in a college education. It was one of 26 schools affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The university was 126 years old.
Iowa Wesleyan University: Closed during the conclusion of the 2022-23 academic year. Aside from enrollment challenges, administrators cited inflation and a “significant drop” in fundraising. The United Methodist institution also called out Gov. Kim Reynolds for denying the school a $12 million request in American Resue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to help stabilize the school’s debt. IWU was 181 years old.
Medaille University (N.Y.): Following a failed acquisition with Trocaire College, the Buffalo-based college went under due to the usual causes. Enrollment in the past 10 years had dropped by almost 50%, from 2,600 students in fall 2012 to around 1,600 in the last academic year, according to The Buffalo News. The university was 86 years old.
University of Wisconsin–Platteville Richland: Along with this University of Wisconsin campus closure, two other campuses moved entirely online.

Multnomah University in Oregon barely escaped closure by striking a deal with Jessup University in California to become a satellite campus. The two private Christian institutions considered this move a “merger of missions” due to their “remarkably similar histories of equipping students to make positive impacts in their local communities and the world.”

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