Posted on 04/13/2023 6:51:32 PM PDT by marshmallow
FOX POINT, Wis. (AP) — Cardinal Stritch University, a Catholic liberal arts college, is closing, a year after celebrating its 85th anniversary.
“I wish there was a different path we could pursue,” President Dan Scholz said in a video Monday. “However, the fiscal realities, downward enrollment trends, the pandemic, the need for more resources and the mounting operational and facility challenges presented a no-win situation.”
The university was known as St. Clare College when it was started in Milwaukee in 1937 by the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi. It was renamed for Cardinal Samuel Stritch in 1946 and later relocated to northern Milwaukee County.
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Woke?
Now Broke?
Catholics who care about their faith are moving south.
They provided “domestic partner” benefits for their employees for years leading up to this.
Interesting... declining population... lack of faith...? Any insights?
Interesting.
If they’ve gone trendy woke, what’s the point of being a ‘Catholic’ university?
Now misnamed ‘Yeshiva’ University in New York is eventually going to see the same fate with affirmation of Its ‘gay pride’ club. Endowments, and righteous students, eventually run out.
Loyola University Medical Center West of Chicago has the Stritch School of Medicine. Now I know why it’s called that.
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