First my alma mater (TTU) now Clearwater

I am not surprised about CCC closing. I expect HAC to be next. Unless you can have a Christian college with enrollments in the 2 to 4 thousand range the college will not survive.
 
I have no ideal, CCC had about 350 according to a news article.
 
OBC is down to less than 10 students and the doors are still open.

 
How many students does Grace Baptist in Gaylord Michigan have? I have seen preschools with bigger campuses.
 
4everfsu said:
I am not surprised about CCC closing. I expect HAC to be next. Unless you can have a Christian college with enrollments in the 2 to 4 thousand range the college will not survive.

I don't know that this is true.  It probably depends upon the expenses -- do they have their own buildings and dorms?  Do they have a full faculty, or are the majority of the faculty work for the founding church.  I assume that quite small colleges can survive.  Per what I've read, Clearwater did a lot of building in the 1990s, and I assume that they could not keep up the maintenance.
 
All four christian colleges that closed had small enrollment, small endowments. PBBC, TTU, NIU and CCC. Again if  you don't have a large enrollement or an enrollment that can grow it is just a matter of time.

Again I don't expect HAC to be open any later then 5 yrs from now.
 
I think TTU and NIU switched to CCM if I am not mistaken
 
4everfsu said:
I think TTU and NIU switched to CCM if I am not mistaken

Is that after they were investigated by the FBI, CIA, NSA, and ABC?
 
I expect Liberty to be around for awhile, due to enrollment, endowment, etc. Something the other schools did not have. I also would not be surprised if MBBC runs into trouble later, but I think its enrollment is 900 to 1000 students.
I don't think they have gone to CCM. Another school that changed its athletic teams from crusaders to sabrecats because did not want to offend anyone.
 
praise_yeshua said:
LOL.... CCM killed it....

I reckon all those other colleges using CCM are next.......

Apparently you missed his point. It wasn't CCM that killed it. It was a departure from the longstanding direction/philosophy of the college that killed it. Temple and Northland had the exact same problem and they couldn't last long enough or innovate their way quick enough to a new customer base. It is foolish to take an institution dependent for its existence on the good will of lots of pastors and embrace positions that will alienate the bulk of those pastors. That's just common sense. But - and here I am assuming so forgive me - it is likely that the leadership of all three of these schools looked at the accomplishments of places like Liberty and wanted to copy that. In reality, if you want to copy it, start from scratch. Deep transitions in colleges run high risks.
 
Brick and mortar colleges/universities, no matter their affiliation, are dying out... just like newspapers.

Any loss of constituency, when survival is already very tough, will make it happen more rapidly.

Online universities... not the future, but now.
 
FSSL said:
Brick and mortar colleges/universities, no matter their affiliation, are dying out... just like newspapers.

Any loss of constituency, when survival is already very tough, will make it happen more rapidly.

Online universities... not the future, but now.

^this^

Of the five men I know who are currently working through seminary, only one of them is physically attending classes.

Travel, housing and food expenses all go away if you can get your education from home.
 
I believe TTU, NIU and CCC all had online courses also. Also Liberty started out with Bill Gaither songs, and hymnals  and eventually went to CCM. So it survived the movement so far.
 
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