In a period where budget woes continue to wrack colleges and universities across the nation, the last two weeks have brought particularly bad news on higher education’s financial front. The University of Lynchburg in Lynchburg, Virginia, and Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts both announced large-scale budget cuts involving academic programs and/or personnel; and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia abruptly announced it was closing in the face of insurmountable financial challenges.
