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Finlandia University is the latest private college to fall

University Business

Michigan’s only private university in the state’s upper peninsula, Finlandia University, announced last week it will not enroll students for fall 2023, officially marking its closure at the conclusion of the current academic year. In November, The Hechinger Report found 861 colleges had closed since 2004.

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Sustainability actions students take and want their colleges to take

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But the one-quarter finding matches up with how Julian Dautremont of AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, describes higher ed’s commitment. When he co-founded the organization in 2004, it had 35 member campuses—which grew quickly to 200 and peaked in 2012 at about 1,200.

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