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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 ...

Update : Tulsa, OK Newson6.com published, " Bacone College Gears Up For Fall Semester Despite Shut Down 'Rumors '," on August 13,2018 with reporting by Taylor Newcomb. * * * * Bacone College in Muskogee, Oklahoma announced that week that it will be suspending operations and hopes to secure sufficient resources to open in the fall. Tulsa NewsonSix.com posted a short video, " Bacone College Closing, Laying Off Staff Unless Funding Is Found Soon ," with reporter Justin Shrair interviewing college president Franklin Willis. The video also features images of the campus. The MVSKOKEMEDIA.com website posted an article, " Bacone announces temporary closure, layoffs ," with reporting by  Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton.  She notes that i n April, Bacone  "...selected a new president, Ferlin Clark, who is scheduled to take office later this year... While president of the Navajo Nation’s Dine College in Tsaile, Arizona, Clark oversaw a multi-million dollar ca...

St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, OK announced this past week that it will close at the end of the current fall semester .  The institution was founded by Benedictine monks at Sacred Heart Mission in 1875.  It relocated to Shawnee, OK in 1916 and was initially chartered as the Catholic University of Oklahoma.  It was renamed St. Gregory's College.  Later after 1997, the name changed to St. Gregory's University. You can read more at Inside Higher Ed in Scott Jaschik's article, " Another Small Private College Will Close ." Patrina Adger interviewed students and staff and her video is posted on the KOCO-TV News website, " Students at St. Gregory's University looking for answers after news of closu re ." If you are interested in recent trends for closures and mergers,  access  College Closures since 2009  in the index at the right of any  College History Garden  page.  There are separate tabs for non-profit and for-profit closures....