Wednesday, October 5, 2022

COVID-19 picked-off two already ailing Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod institutions of higher learning in New York and Oregon in 2020-2021

The Concordia University system must brace for yet another closure. Concordia College New York, a small, Lutheran liberal arts college in Bronxville, N.Y., will close this summer, it announced Thursday. ...

Concordia’s closure announcement leaves only six institutions in the Concordia University system. It began to shrink eight years ago, when Concordia University Ann Arbor was annexed by Concordia University Wisconsin in 2013. Five years later, Concordia College in Alabama, a historically Black college, closed due to falling enrollments and mounting debt. Concordia University in Portland, Ore., announced in February that it would close, citing a challenging and changing higher education landscape.

-- Inside Higher Ed, January 29, 2021 

For other college closings across the country since 2016, see here.