A Doomsday List of Possible College Closures Inspired Panic and Legal Threats. That’s Telling.

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Locked doors at Saint Paul’s College, which closed in 2013

Locked doors at Saint Paul’s College, which closed in 2013Chronicle Photo by Julia Schmalz

Higher education’s walking dead are already among us. Figuring out exactly who they are, though, is tricky and fraught.

That fact came into sharp relief this week, when a college-advising company scuttled its plans to release a list of private, nonprofit colleges that it expects to run out of money and close in the coming years, according to a new financial-modeling tool.

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A version of this article appeared in the December 6, 2019, issue.

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Jack Stripling is a senior writer at The Chronicle and host of its podcast, College Matters from The Chronicle. Follow him on Twitter @jackstripling.