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Agriculture Department Attempts to Keep Rural Colleges and Universities Afloat

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the past three years, at least a dozen private, nonprofit universities and colleges in rural areas or that serve rural students have closed or announced their closings. Even if there were regional banks [in rural communities] that had the capital, they don’t have the risk profile to be able to do it.”

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A better way to address revenue sharing and online marketing (letter)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

At this point, nearly every nonprofit university in the U.S. Winners & Whiners Several universities have testified they could not have launched their online programs without revenue share. For example, Noodle works with several banks to help its clients fund online efforts through traditional low-interest loans.