This is the first in a two-part series on the insights and challenges facing smaller religious colleges.
As in the rest of the country, small religious colleges in the Boston area are facing difficult times. Sharp declines in enrollment and revenue are forcing many to close. Recently, for example, Andover Newton Theological Seminary — the nation's oldest theological school — announced it would shutter its campus and merge with Yale Divinity School. Marian Court College, a Catholic school in Swampscott, Mass., also closed last year. But three small colleges have bucked the trend, and are flourishing in the nation's most competitive higher education market.
This is the second in a two-part series on the insights and challenges facing smaller religious colleges. Read Part I here.
Faced with dwindling enrollment and financial shortfalls, many small religious colleges are unable to survive. However, three small religious colleges in the area are defying this trend, and are flourishing in the nation's most competitive higher education market. In Part 2 of our series, we'll explore the proactive and farsighted strategies adopted by the college presidents, which led to their success.
