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College closes, now campus is for sale
Times Union ^ | Wednesday, July 3, 2019 | Rick Karlin

Posted on 07/07/2019 8:48:47 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion

POULTNEY, VT. — For sale: Lightly used college campus complete with Greek revival buildings and a farm, sans livestock. In turnkey move-in condition with a biomass heating system and solar array for electric power.

Price on the 155-acre property is negotiable.

“It’s a beautiful campus. It’s in impeccable shape,” said Tony Blake, a Vermont real estate agent working with the Boston office of the Colliers International to sell the now-empty Green Mountain College.

Citing declining enrollment and rising costs, Green Mountain officials in January said this would be the last year in operation. The school closed in May after its final semester. With about 500 students, a limited endowment and heavy debt load, the school’s trustees said they were simply running out of money... (more at linky)


TOPICS: Education; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: college; education; greenmountain; vermont
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Pssssstt... wanna buy a college??
1 posted on 07/07/2019 8:48:47 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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So that will be Bernie’s “gift” when the Democrats get him to quit the presidential race.


2 posted on 07/07/2019 8:51:36 AM PDT by dowcaet
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They’ll convert them into condos, like they do with old churches.


3 posted on 07/07/2019 8:57:42 AM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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Turn it into a minimum-security prison.


4 posted on 07/07/2019 8:59:08 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion


and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

5 posted on 07/07/2019 9:01:49 AM PDT by Chode (Send bachelors, and come heavily armed!)
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6 posted on 07/07/2019 9:02:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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Hey - here is an opportunity to buy an entire campus on the cheap and create a REAL institute of higher learning, free of political correctness.

Really. Paging Don Jr. or someone similar...

Rush, Mark, Sean, Laura, Michelle, Tucker all have the kind of stash and (hopefully) principles necessary to get ‘er done.

Why not? That school will be busing at the seams with patriots!


7 posted on 07/07/2019 9:04:18 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

So they taught all the Enviro womyn not to have kids (overpopulation!) and now...they don’t have any legacy students.

Hilarious.


8 posted on 07/07/2019 9:06:01 AM PDT by Regulator
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Here is a list of the majors they offered. Just reading through them is a good indication that Green Mountain College wasn't long for this world:

Adventure Education
Animal Conservation & Care
Applied Environmental Science
Art
Biology
Business (Sustainable Business)
Communication Studies
Education
English & Writing
Environmental Studies
Fine Arts
History
Interdisciplinary Studies
Killington School of Resort Management Natural Resources Management
Progressive Program
Psychology
Public Philosophy
Renewable Energy & Ecological Design
Self-Designed Major
Sociology/Anthropology
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Wilderness & Outdoor Therapy
Wildlife and Forestry Conservation

What the hell is "Public Philosophy," anyway? And what does someone who majors in "Wilderness & Outdoor Therapy" do for a living?

9 posted on 07/07/2019 9:08:57 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave." -- Frederick Douglass)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Would be an opportunity for a conservative billionaire to purchase and turn into a beacon of conservative thought and action. Then again the President is preoccupied


10 posted on 07/07/2019 9:09:47 AM PDT by buckalfa (Earth First ! We Will Strip Mine The Other Planets Later !)
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To: Regulator
The tireless pursuit to explore options to keep the place open were narrowly confined to leftist crap stuff. A campus that taught anything biblical or online or conservative including tactical gun classes would have thrived.

Left-tards would rather commit suicide from overwhelming hubris than survive. Their days are numbered.

11 posted on 07/07/2019 9:11:13 AM PDT by x_plus_one ( Elvis has left the building.)
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Probably, the only way to get rid of tenured faculty in disciplines no longer needed.
12 posted on 07/07/2019 9:13:15 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (60 in '20. Now, more than ever!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"Every option" to remain open was considered except a reduction in staff, and a reduction in cushy salaries for the fat cat professors.

Gee, it must be rough to be a 50-something fat cat professor who lost his job and fat salary for teaching gender studies and critical feminism. I mean here you are, 50-something, with no marketable skills, a mountain of mortgage and consumer debt, and no prospects for returning to a high paid life of leisure — "Would you like fries with that?"

13 posted on 07/07/2019 9:14:41 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (September 11, 2001 : Never forget, never forgive.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Ah, ANOTHER tuition free institution of higher learning emerges.

Just like The Beatnik Bern’s wife’s Burlington College...


14 posted on 07/07/2019 9:18:04 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I think one of the fathers of the USC payola kids went to GMC, at least for a while. William Macy, iirc.


15 posted on 07/07/2019 9:18:13 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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[[Turn it into a minimum-security prison.]]

It already was a minimum security prison- complete4 with brainwashers posing as professors


16 posted on 07/07/2019 9:18:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Pretty place. I think their sustainability plans went off the tracks though.

Meanwhile, other places continue to build colleges but not sure why.


17 posted on 07/07/2019 9:20:53 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (We are governed by the consent of the governed and we are fools for allowing it.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Higher education is a massive bubble, funding by high tuitions, government spending and massive student debt. It supports hundreds of thousands of highly reliable voters and ideologues for the left.


18 posted on 07/07/2019 9:22:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

No mention of Jane Sanders who bankrupted the place.


19 posted on 07/07/2019 9:24:37 AM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: dowcaet

From Wikipedia

“..In the late 1990s the college began to focus on environmental literacy and citizenship”

“GMC was home to an educational track known as the Progressive Program. Based on the ideas of philosopher John Dewey[13] and formed on a philosophy similar to that of Goddard College, a Vermont institution recognized for its dedication to progressive education..”

“Green Mountain College offered 23 undergraduate majors[10] GMC also offered the following graduate degrees: an MBA in Sustainable Business; MS in Environmental Studies; MS in Sustainable Food Systems; and MS in Resilient and Sustainable Communities”

“GMC was also named the Sierra Club’s #1 Cool School for 2018”

Once again - being a virue-signalling ideologue leftist apparently doesn’t work in the real world.


20 posted on 07/07/2019 9:27:20 AM PDT by PGR88
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