Academic cuts, mergers, and closures from April

Bryan Alexander
5 min readApr 29, 2024

April has brought more academic cuts, mergers and closures. I noted examples of this trend in last month (1, 2, 3) but as they used to say on radio, the hits keep coming. A Hechinger Report article claimed one institutional closure per week, and I recommend the piece for its humanity.

In this post I’ll be brief, as I have a week full of travel, meetings, and iffy broadband. I’ll also reuse my previous categories, starting with…

1. Closing campuses

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Bryan Alexander

Futurist, speaker, writer, educator. Author of the FTTE report, UNIVERSITIES ON FIRE, and ACADEMIA NEXT. Creator of The Future Trends Forum.