Before Announcing Shutdown, Newbury College Recruited Students from Defunct Mount Ida

When Mount Ida College (MA) announced last spring that it was shutting down, Newbury College in Brookline, MA, encouraged students to transfer to Newbury, assuring at least one anxious family that the college was in no financial peril itself.  Now Newbury is set to close too — leaving students devastated, none more than those who had recently arrived from Mount Ida and now feel twice betrayed.  Recruiting from Mount Ida was just one of the last-ditch measures that Newbury explored this year in its attempt to stay open. It also sold campus buildings and pursued a real estate deal with a for-profit education company based in the United Kingdom.