VT Digger is reporting that Marlboro College will be giving its campus and endowment to Emerson College of Boston.
“Under a tentative agreement, Marlboro leaders say the school’s roughly $30 million endowment and $10 million in land and buildings will endow Emerson’s Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies program, which will be renamed the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College. “
I’m excited to report that the graduate program I work in at Marlboro College is going all online!
I’m here for any questions or feedback.
Here are the details and a press release.
The curriculum has been updated to focus on human-centered learning experience design and increased student advising.
The name of the program is now Master of Arts in Teaching: Learning Design and Technology. This is the standard name for most programs like this.
This morning’s article in the Reformer about Marlboro College was odd in a number of ways. First, they say they have a “structural deficit” of 3-4 million dollars a year. But they say that the endowment is sufficient to cover this loss. The endowment is only about $40 million. The 990 for 2015 showed a loss of $4,000,000 in total assets, indicating that this $4 million a year loss has been going on for awhile.
