Education — Small College Viability Concerns Intensify as Massachusetts Flags Anna Maria College and Walla Walla CC Shutters Satellite Campus

Education · 2026-04-16

TODAY'S SIGNAL — The structural fragility of small and rural higher education institutions is moving from background concern to front-page reality. Two stories today — Massachusetts flagging Anna Maria College as a closure risk and Walla Walla Community College voting to close its Clarkston satellite campus — represent different stages of the same institutional contraction cycle. State regulators…