Chatfield College will be Closing as it Transitions to a New Nonprofit

Chatfield College in Saint Martins and Cincinnati, OH announced that it will be transitioning to become The Chatfield Edge, a new nonprofit agency, which "...will provide education attainment services, academic scholarships, mentoring, and job readiness support to qualified first-generation and non-traditional students in Greater Cincinnati."

The current fall semester semester will be the last for classes at the college’s Over-the-Rhine campus in downtown Cincinnati and its St. Martin campus in Brown County, OH. Staff will work individually with its approximately 100 current students enrolled for the fall semester. Chatfield has arranged teach-out agreements with Cincinnati State Technical and Community College and Southern State Community College for students expected to graduate in the spring of 2023, so they can complete their degrees on time.

Chatfield recently celebrated a 50th anniversary and traces its roots to a group of women who arrived in central Ohio in 1845 with an educational mission. The women started a convent at St. Martin, OH. An Ursuline Teacher Training Institute was created in 1958 to provide a liberal arts education to women joining the Ursuline Order. Later in 1971, the public was admitted and the school was renamed Chatfield College.

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