New England College to Merge with N.H. Institute of Art

New England College (NH) and the New Hampshire Institute of Art are merging, the two schools announced Tuesday.  The move comes as small schools across the Northeast struggle with declining revenues and enrollment because of declining numbers of graduating seniors in the region. But the Henniker-based NEC, a private, not-for-profit liberal arts school with about 2,800 undergraduate and graduate students, has been growing its enrollment and expanding programming.