{"id":40204,"date":"2026-04-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/13\/more-than-a-quarter-of-private-colleges-are-at-risk-of-closing-a-new-projection-shows-npr\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:00:00","slug":"more-than-a-quarter-of-private-colleges-are-at-risk-of-closing-a-new-projection-shows-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/13\/more-than-a-quarter-of-private-colleges-are-at-risk-of-closing-a-new-projection-shows-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, a new projection shows &#8211; NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMijgFBVV95cUxOUjNXVzZUNk0xLVBoRlROc0NOOHFXb3N4Y3pUTy1LWndBSlAzTXRJM0hPYndzcm9keEdqcjBFNXRkSFRodHlJa3czOFBCMWtlM0h0Tmd3UmRfOTZ1bGxLN0lNcjhkbWpMZzdqMmFBOU1BMm84UjNndXpxd19KT29veGJFM1daSXc2R0NrZ3VR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, a new projection shows<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">NPR<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihwFBVV95cUxPT1BKWW5YNUROVzhybzlrMUpMNHgwakltQTE0REFRc0hJeFBvLXU5M196M3lwRWNBcHc5ZUNhT3FZRUE3LTJsZ1laNEFMb05SYXFzTTBkQXhBVURqby01Q0RTWVI4SUtaMzl1SGM3YVFkLWgydTNQU04xUEh4U1p5MXd1TkxfZGc?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">The Small Private Colleges Dying in a Winner-Take-All University Marketplace<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">WSJ<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxOeldmd3liQkstZDFMNVFNOUNTN3dPTFhac0V4b3ZLVk9iVjU4Zk03Mm9PQ0hLaHlRZl94emR4YlIySDcxNWNQRUlwSENSRGlzSWVURjVXSVg2c2pwQ0dSWkxXUTNSRzhLNENEa3lUalRaVVNRakVnRTdJRmhPVGxhUkZuZGJQOG92ZUl6UDZ0UmZ4TFNGWjMwaDRyUy1SZmxnbGVSWEFrSjZaOEFrWWpkR3hR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">As one Vermont college finishes its last semester, a new projection shows that 442 more are at similar risk<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Hechinger Report<\/font><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMinwFBVV95cUxOQ3RoNlU0eWRodXFTZER6QjVtTGg0bjJXRW85dVdxdnJqenVjQk04R0k2VW5NUnpvMW41SmxYRlRkRktXRmRrUy1ZdFFRb3ljV1NyNVZSYWdsY3lXQWlBdVA0R2U1NlZ6VzhaYlVBTk81WUt2bG5JY1Z1VTVrOHNaOFhtUkVHOVNfWnFYOHhrSDlBNTliVi1RZzdLU1ZrcE0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Small Private Colleges Are Fighting an Existential Battle<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Newser<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a quarter of private colleges are at risk of closing, a new projection shows&nbsp;&nbsp;NPR The Small Private Colleges Dying in a Winner-Take-All University&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/04\/13\/more-than-a-quarter-of-private-colleges-are-at-risk-of-closing-a-new-projection-shows-npr\/\" class=\"read-more\">[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}