Sean Rameswaram

Tell us the story of what happened to Hampshire.

So Hampshire gets a lot of attention, but it sounds like from what you're saying, this is happening maybe far more often than we know, that four-year colleges, universities are going out of business.

Okay, so we've got the demographic cliff.

We've got the cost.

There's also a culture war around our colleges and universities currently being waged by this administration.

Does that have something to do with it?

What happens to a student who goes to one of these schools when they find out their school is closing and they're, you know, whatever, a sophomore?

Bleak.

Isn't it?

To some degree, you're speaking about market forces, right?

I mean, there's not enough students.

The costs are too high.

So the market's correcting and these schools are closing.

But what do we lose when we lose these smaller regional liberal arts colleges?

So for someone out there who's like Hampshire College, never heard of her, doesn't affect me, what they might be missing is that if enough of these schools close, which from what you've said, it sounds like we're definitely, you know, at risk of, you're going to see a bit of a death spiral, a doom loop in smaller American cities.

how colleges can save themselves or at least die a little slower in a minute on Today Explained.

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