Toward a New Dawning of Hope and Change
They say University of the Arts had been in a “fragile financial state” with “many years of declining enrollments, declining revenues, and increasing expenses.”
There is shock after finding out on Friday that the University of the Arts in Philadelphia is shutting its doors on June 7, 2024.
"I feel like I’m in shock. When I was reading it I couldn’t even process what was going on," former student Aaron Foreman said.
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education said it is withdrawing the university's accreditation. The withdrawal went into effect on Saturday, June 24.>>
There’s good news on the way, however. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has announced that a combined effort of the Commonwealth and the U.S. Department of Education will be acquiring the physical assets and members of tenured faculty who haven’t moved away already for the purpose of establishing a new institution of higher education called “The University of the Wymyns.”
In a brief press conference, the Governor (and current VP hopeful in the post-Biden Reformation) explained that plunging enrollments, endowment donations, and academic publications in the nation’s patriarchal and obsolete Ivy League have inspired multiple efforts like this one to acquire failing universities and remake them in accordance with the core principles of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The University of the Wymyns may be the first of these, but certainly won’t be the last.
“All the letters of the new anti-patriarchal coalition from L to G to B to T to Q to Plus signs galore will have their own new schools,” joked Shapiro. “Don’t think we won’t be adding other letters. We all know how many genders there are. And they’ll all have their own new armorial crests. Like this one,” he promised.
This a Developing Story. We will return with updates on a regular basis with new pioneering educational announcements as they are formalized…
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