Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Green Mountain College Announces It Will Be Closing

President Robert Allen of Green Mountain College in Poultney, VT announced today that the institution will close after the completion of the current spring semester.

Green Mountain College was initially incorporated as Troy Conference Academy in 1834 and opened two years later.  The name changed to Ripley Female College in 1863 and back to Troy Conference Academy in 1874. It became Green Mountain Junior College by 1937 and changed its name to Green Mountain College in 1974.


VTDigger posted a good article on the closure, "Green Mountain College to close at the end of the year," with reporting by Lola Duffort.
  You can also see additional reporting in a post by Vermont Public Radio, "Green Mountain College Announces Plan To Close This Spring."


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.

7 comments:

  1. Article by Lola Duffort for VTDigger on February 5, 2019 offering analysis of economic impact of the closure, "Green Mountain College closure an ‘earthquake’ for Poultney." https://vtdigger.org/2019/02/05/green-mountain-college-closure-earthquake-poultney/

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  2. Blog post by Don Lehman on February 6, 2019, "Green Mountain College closure will hurt many." https://poststar.com/blogs/don_lehman/blog-green-mountain-college-closure-will-hurt-many/article_5b8270c4-2a0f-11e9-90ff-7b3fc25bcf4e.html

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  3. Article in Albany Times Union by Rick Karlin, "Supporters: Save Green Mountain College
    Despite deficit, they want to keep school open," https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Alumni-and-supporters-push-to-save-Green-Mountain-13602010.php

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