The Closure - Opinion Piece

Brendan O'Malley writes: Everyone knew Newbury was struggling with finances and enrollment. Administrators had been working frantically on potential mergers and alternate business models, and we all wanted to believe one of them might pan out. Longtime faculty assured us newer hires that the college had survived similar difficult periods in the past, and it would likely do so again. How could a college just disappear, when every day we saw the classrooms with our own eyes, every day the offices, the dorms, the dining hall all still there?