More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, new projection shows
- Oliver Parini for The Hechinger Report
- Updated
Izzy Johnson, left, and Jack Beatson are first-year students at Sterling College in Craftsbury Common, Vermont. The college has announced that it will close at the end of this semester.
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The Hechinger Report reports over a quarter of private colleges face closure, with Sterling College closing this semester, underscoring higher education's crisis.
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