Nov 13, 2019, 2:14 PM
(From Inside Higher Ed) Marlboro College has recently announced plans to close its campus at the end of the 2019-20 academic year — making it the tenth U.S. college to close this year. Marlboro will merge with Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, and its tenured and tenure-track faculty members may choose to teach at Emerson. Marlboro will also gift to Emerson its endowment, currently valued at more than $30 million, and its real estate holdings, appraised at more than $10 million. Marlboro’s gift to Emerson will endow Emerson’s liberal arts and interdisciplinary studies program, where Marlboro students will be enrolled and Marlboro faculty will teach.
Marlboro's president, Kevin F. F. Quigley, declined to discuss the reasons for the college's closure, but he said after that decision Marlboro reached out to a number of colleges, and the only one that would employ all of its faculty was Emerson. Previous talks for Marlboro College to merge with the Connecticut-based University of Bridgeport were called off in September.
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