New College of California Is on Deathbed [View All]

Source: InsideHigherEd.com

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Circumstances at New College of California have deteriorated to the point that it isn’t operating.
Those faculty members still hanging on – who have not been paid since early November and whose health benefits recently lapsed without notice – are, while still holding out hope for salvation, trying to put together plans to “teach out” the current crop of students and potentially find a home for some of the progressive college’s unique programs at other institutions....

By fall, enrollment had dropped 41 percent. The progressive, quirky San Francisco College, with degrees in activism and social change and women’s spirituality in addition to law and teacher education, considered declaring bankruptcy.
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Read more: http://insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/11/newcollege