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PoindexterOglethorpe

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5. I'd say the essential problem with Hampshire is that it's too small to be viable,

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Fri Oct 25, 2019, 11:48 PM

Oct 2019

although it does have a healthy endowment, I'd say, at $48 million.

This is hardly a typical liberal arts college, so as sad as it might be if this one folds, there are still lots of others out there.

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Are liberal arts colleges doomed? [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2019 OP

I hope not. no_hypocrisy Oct 2019 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Jake Stern Oct 2019 #3

Time to lighten up on the hyper-selectivity and slash the eye popping tuition Jake Stern Oct 2019 #2

Ever higher tuition, cost of student loans and artificial intelligence democratisphere Oct 2019 #4

I'd say the essential problem with Hampshire is that it's too small to be viable, PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2019 #5

52 million dollars is a piss poor endowment! kennetha Oct 2019 #6

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I'm biased since I went to a liberal arts university in Texas. TexasTowelie Nov 2019 #9

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One of my friends from high school went to the same private liberal arts university as I did, TexasTowelie Mar 2020 #11