Eastern Nazarene College Announces Plans to Close

 Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, MA announced this week that it intends to close by the end of the year.

The institution was founded in 1900 as Pentecostal Collegiate Institute in Saratoga Springs, NY. It moved to Massachusetts and changed name to Eastern Nazarene College after 1918. 

Read more about ENC on their Our History page.

Or, visit Quincy's The Patriot Ledger for more information on the closure in "After more than 100 years in Quincy, Eastern Nazarene College plans to close," with reporting by Peter Blandino.

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.