Mississippi senator proposes bill closes three Mississippi public schools

[nelsonmuntz]

This is a really bad idea. The political and economic obstacles are too great to overcome. And, no way NY State makes UConn Storrs their anchor campus. The individual states will close down their weaker schools as the SUNY system has about 64 schools! When I saw the ~20% decline in the enrollments at ECSU, CCSU, SCSU, and WCSU, I'm shocked that the state is not talking about consolidation as the enrollments will not recover. The flagship state universities are not having an enrollment problem, but the secondary colleges and community colleges are.

Higher education is about to go through what every other industry has gone through as technology and a shrinking market make its current business model unviable. There will be mergers between state schools across borders, and SUNY is the juiciest target. Either UConn merges with them, or someone else likely will.