Lincoln College of New England Announces Closure

 

Lincoln College of New England, a small for-profit institution, announced that it will no longer enroll students and intends to close at the end of 2018.

The institution was founded in 1966 as Briarwood Secretarial School in Bristol, Connecticut.  Courses were offered the following year at a site in Southington, Ct.  The school then received its state charter in 1979 as Briarwood College.  Baccalaureate programs were add in 2005 for criminal justice and funeral service management.  

Briarwood College was acquired by Lincoln Educational Services Corporation in 2008.  The following year LESC acquired Clemens College in Suffield, CT and merged the two institutions to form Lincoln College of New England.

If you are interested in recent trends for closures, mergers,and acquisitions access College Closures since 2009 in the index at the right of any College History Garden page.  There are separate tabs for non-profit closures, for-profit closures, and one for mergers and acquisitions.  Each tab includes basic information for the institutions, i.e., Carnegie Classification, sector, accrediting agency, and the IPEDS unitid.

You can also read more about the closure at "Lincoln College in Southington to close at end of year," from the Meriden, CT Record-Journal.