TWICV News and Commentary for November 17, 2025

This is the podcast that talks about the financial health and viability of public and private colleges with data, details and perspectives offered nowhere else.

Where are we headed this week before Thanksgiving 2025?

+ It wouldn’t be a show without cutbacks and layoffs. We had a closure announcement last week, but the college was so small, it did warrant big headlines.

+ Wittenberg U in Ohio: On probation. I will have the data for you.

+ Utica college president moves to get the college financially sound and it looks like he was chased out because of it.

+ Student protests at Mary Baldwin University (VA) because of cuts to minors.

+ I have a college president who, after the fact, says ‘we wanted to be smaller anyway’

+ Why Free Community College Is Missing The Mark In Massachusetts

+ and of course much more. . .

Show notes and links:

N.J. (Rider) university in financial crisis will lay off 40 professors, cut everyone’s pay

Keene State to lay off staff positions, asking faculty to retire after state cuts

Accreditor places Wittenberg on probation, citing ongoing financial problems

President of (Utica) university in Northeast steps down amid layoff threats, financial woes

Students protest Mary Baldwin University's decision to discontinue academic minors

Drexel’s first-year enrollment plummets by nearly twenty percent (corrected to 19.3%)

Change the Game and the Name of 'College Admissions'

Report finds UC San Diego freshmen not prepared for college-level math, writing classes

Why Free Community College Is Missing The Mark In Massachusetts