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[5 Words or Less]

other colleges adding football ...
http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/future.htm

Four-year colleges
Cincinnati Christian University (Cincinnati, OH), NAIA (2016) (First year of play in parentheses)
Clarke University (Dubuque, IA), NAIA (2018)
Davenport University (Grand Rapids, MI), NAIA(?) (2016)
East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN), NCAA Division I - Football Championship Subdivision / Southern Conference (2015)
Finlandia University (Hancock, MI), NCAA Division III (2015)
Kennesaw State (Kennesaw, GA), NCAA Division I - Football Championship Subdivision / Big South Conference (2015)
Lyon College (Batesville, AR), NAIA Central States Football League (2015)
Morthland College (West Franklin, IL), affiliation unknown (2016)
University of New England (Biddeford, ME), NCAA Division III (possibly 2017)
Texas-Permian Basin (Odessa, TX), NCAA Division II (2016)
UAB (Birmingham, AL), NCAA Division I (subdivision to be determined) (2016 or 2017)
West Florida (Pensacola, FL), NCAA Division II (2016)

Junior and community colleges
ASA College Miami (Miami, FL), NJCAA (2015)
Northland C.T.C. (Thief River Falls, MN), NJCAA (2015)

[Gregory Sager]

other colleges adding football ...
http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/future.htm

Four-year colleges
Cincinnati Christian University (Cincinnati, OH), NAIA (2016) (First year of play in parentheses)
Clarke University (Dubuque, IA), NAIA (2018)
Davenport University (Grand Rapids, MI), NAIA(?) (2016)

Davenport is, indeed, an NAIA member.

East Tennessee State University (Johnson City, TN), NCAA Division I - Football Championship Subdivision / Southern Conference (2015)
Finlandia University (Hancock, MI), NCAA Division III (2015)
Kennesaw State (Kennesaw, GA), NCAA Division I - Football Championship Subdivision / Big South Conference (2015)
Lyon College (Batesville, AR), NAIA Central States Football League (2015)
Morthland College (West Franklin, IL), affiliation unknown (2016)

Morthland is a member of the NCCAA. The NCCAA includes both members that are only a part of that organization (e.g., Morthland) and members that have dual affiliation with either the NAIA or the NCAA. As is the case in other sports, the NCCAA football playoffs includes NAIA- or NCAA-affiliated teams that did not qualify for the playoffs in that other affiliation.

University of New England (Biddeford, ME), NCAA Division III (possibly 2017)
Texas-Permian Basin (Odessa, TX), NCAA Division II (2016)
UAB (Birmingham, AL), NCAA Division I (subdivision to be determined) (2016 or 2017)
West Florida (Pensacola, FL), NCAA Division II (2016)

Junior and community colleges
ASA College Miami (Miami, FL), NJCAA (2015)
Northland C.T.C. (Thief River Falls, MN), NJCAA (2015)

Thanks for posting this list.

[Gray Fox]

UAB just dropped football.  Make up your minds.

[5 Words or Less]

Thanks for posting this list.

De nada.  Please continue posting!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Thanks for posting this list.

De nada.  Please continue posting!

At 17K+, I suspect Gregory will keep posting!

Although I have even more posts than him, he has no doubt posted more words( ) and started well before I did.

[5 Words or Less]

Thanks for posting this list.

De nada.  Please continue posting!

At 17K+, I suspect Gregory will keep posting!

Although I have even more posts than him, he has no doubt posted more words( ) and started well before I did.

mo' people = mo' fun 

[Pat Coleman]

Thanks for posting this list.

De nada.  Please continue posting!

At 17K+, I suspect Gregory will keep posting!

Although I have even more posts than him, he has no doubt posted more words( ) and started well before I did.

Right -- you have more recorded posts than he does but that's because many of the posts from 1999-2005 aren't counted in these totals.

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2006 construction bonds haunting Iowa Wesleyan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/23/colleges-debt-troubles-are-making-new-promises-investors

Take a deal Iowa Wesleyan College struck last fall with Wells Fargo -- which acts as a trustee on behalf of the college's bondholders. The college promised the bank that the college would enroll a certain number of students over the next several years. It is now contractually required to have 446 full-time students on campus in October 2017. Last fall, it had 361 full-time equivalent students. The college cut its workforce by a third, prompting questions last year about how it can continue to offer thorough instruction in some basic subjects. Now, it's promised to take on more students. ... As part of efforts to increase revenue, "Iowa Wesleyan changed its residence hall policy so that students must live on campus all four years," instead of for just two, as it had in years past.

[warthog]

2006 construction bonds haunting Iowa Wesleyan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/23/colleges-debt-troubles-are-making-new-promises-investors

Take a deal Iowa Wesleyan College struck last fall with Wells Fargo -- which acts as a trustee on behalf of the college's bondholders. The college promised the bank that the college would enroll a certain number of students over the next several years. It is now contractually required to have 446 full-time students on campus in October 2017. Last fall, it had 361 full-time equivalent students. The college cut its workforce by a third, prompting questions last year about how it can continue to offer thorough instruction in some basic subjects. Now, it's promised to take on more students. ... As part of efforts to increase revenue, "Iowa Wesleyan changed its residence hall policy so that students must live on campus all four years," instead of for just two, as it had in years past.

The article surprised me a little.  I thought Upper Iowa was a cash cow now with its off campus centers and other alternative methods of delivery.

[doolittledog]

2006 construction bonds haunting Iowa Wesleyan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/23/colleges-debt-troubles-are-making-new-promises-investors

Take a deal Iowa Wesleyan College struck last fall with Wells Fargo -- which acts as a trustee on behalf of the college's bondholders. The college promised the bank that the college would enroll a certain number of students over the next several years. It is now contractually required to have 446 full-time students on campus in October 2017. Last fall, it had 361 full-time equivalent students. The college cut its workforce by a third, prompting questions last year about how it can continue to offer thorough instruction in some basic subjects. Now, it's promised to take on more students. ... As part of efforts to increase revenue, "Iowa Wesleyan changed its residence hall policy so that students must live on campus all four years," instead of for just two, as it had in years past.

The article surprised me a little.  I thought Upper Iowa was a cash cow now with its off campus centers and other alternative methods of delivery.

The Upper Iowa part caught me off guard as well.  As for UIU requiring students to live on campus for 3 years...just where would they be living if not on campus?  There's not a lot to offer in Fayette!!!

The Iowa Wesleyan part makes me think they might be out of business sooner rather than later, which is unfortunate. 

[Gregory Sager]

2006 construction bonds haunting Iowa Wesleyan
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/02/23/colleges-debt-troubles-are-making-new-promises-investors

Take a deal Iowa Wesleyan College struck last fall with Wells Fargo -- which acts as a trustee on behalf of the college's bondholders. The college promised the bank that the college would enroll a certain number of students over the next several years. It is now contractually required to have 446 full-time students on campus in October 2017. Last fall, it had 361 full-time equivalent students. The college cut its workforce by a third, prompting questions last year about how it can continue to offer thorough instruction in some basic subjects. Now, it's promised to take on more students. ... As part of efforts to increase revenue, "Iowa Wesleyan changed its residence hall policy so that students must live on campus all four years," instead of for just two, as it had in years past.

The article surprised me a little.  I thought Upper Iowa was a cash cow now with its off campus centers and other alternative methods of delivery.

The article states that UIU went into debt building new dorms, which means that the "alternative methods of delivery" were insufficient to maintain the UIU annual budget. Keep in mind that Upper Iowa's endowment is $14m, nine million dollars smaller than that of the poorest IIAC school, Loras, and about a third the size of the average IIAC endowment. UIU is clearly a school with a tuition-driven annual budget. The new-dorm debt necessitates the addition of more students who pay room and board, and the change in residence hall policy for UIU must be as well, in part, an attempt to demonstrate sound management and justify the building boom by filling those new dorms. UIU may be well-known for its online distance learning and its off-campus centers around the country, but the per-student revenue from undergraduates who utilize those academic methods is only a fraction of the revenue from a resident undergrad. The UIU administration was obviously aware enough of that fact to enter into a dorm-building project.

The Upper Iowa part caught me off guard as well.  As for UIU requiring students to live on campus for 3 years...just where would they be living if not on campus?  There's not a lot to offer in Fayette!!!

I can't imagine that there's a booming housing market in Mount Pleasant (2010 pop. 8,668), either.

The Iowa Wesleyan part makes me think they might be out of business sooner rather than later, which is unfortunate.

Definitely agree. Colleges close all the time, and I think that there will be a growing number of closures over the next few years. But I hate to see D3 schools close, since it feels a bit like family.

[DBQ1965]

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[judgetrainer]

A $14 million endowment is chicken feed. There will be a series of closures in the small college world in the next several decades. And some of the victims will surprise us when we look back.

[doolittledog]

A $14 million endowment is chicken feed. There will be a series of closures in the small college world in the next several decades. And some of the victims will surprise us when we look back.

Grand View is another school with an endowment around $15 million.  They may have had some football success recently in NAIA, but I have serious reservations about the rest of that school being viable long term. 

With Ashford shutting down at the end of this next school year, I wonder if Waldorf won't be far behind. 

[Fannosaurus Rex]

This is depressing.  I would rather talk about beer.  And now that I think about it, how come a town where a bunch of Dutchmen settled, doesn't have a better brewery than a town founded by Norwegians?  My theory is, the best Dutch brewers did just fine in Holland so they never left.
And, since I have been reminded that this is a football board, I will share that there is a You Tube of coach McMartin giving a 25 words or less preview of the 2015 Dutch.  Go Dutch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO0OXORdXkU&feature=player_embedded