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The Education Corporation of America headquarter in Birmingham, AL  announced today that it will close more than 75 sites  that enroll roughly 20,000 students.  The company began the process of notifying students and employees.  The sites include those operating as Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute, Golf Academy of America and Virginia College. You can read more at Inside Higher Ed  in an article that was posted earlier today, " Large For-Profit Chain to Close ."  WSFA-TV in Montgomery, AL posted a short video with an article, " Virginia College closing in Montgomery, nationwide ." KCRA-TV in Sacramento, CA posted " Brightwood College closing Modesto, Sacramento campuses " on its website. Thirty-two sites are listed for Brightwood College in eight states on the  IPEDS College Navigator  site and twenty-seven sites in eleven states are listed for Virginia Colleges. Brightwood College Sites Virginia ...

The DL B , blog of the Digital Library of Georgia featured a number of items from the Spelman College Archives in a post several weeks ago, " Preserving and Sharing Spelman Archival Treasurers ."  Mandy Mastrovita authored the post where she describes some of the items that are available through Our Story : Digitizing Publications and Photographs of the Historically Black Atlanta University Center Institutions ", a partnership of the Spelman Archives , the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library Archives Research Center , and the Digital Library of Georgia . The Our Story archives of the Atlanta University Center offers resources for studying  African American higher education and a number of fascinating institutions:  Atlanta University, Clark College, Clark Atlanta University , Gammon Theological Seminary , Interdenominational Theological Center , Morehouse College , Morris Brown College , and Spelman College .

Emory University offers a mobile tour of the campus using historical materials from the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library.  The web interface provides an overview ofEmory's history by linking text, videos, and photographs with a map . The online tour allows users to toggle between the map view and the text of each tour stop. Users can also access an expanded menu to learn more about the tour and other campus history resources. Emory College wasestablished by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1836.  After 1915, Emory College would move from itsoriginal campus to a new university in Druid Hills.  Tour stops include: Haygood-Hopkins Memorial Gateway was built in 1937.  The Quadrangle Old Theology Building Cannon Chapel Michael C. Carlos Hall & Museum Bowden Hall Candler Library Woodruff Library Cox Hall Dobbs University Center Woodruff Physical Education Center Residence Halls Goizueta Business School Schwartz Center for Performing Arts...