While Mergers Inwards Higher Teaching Look To Brand Sense...Two Reporters Explore The Possibilities

There were ii interesting articles this calendar week exploring mergers equally options for higher teaching institutions.  

Kellie Woodhouse focused on merger discussions for Inside Higher Ed between Salem State University too the Montserrat College of Art in Massachusetts where the institutions ultimately decided that the costs of proceeding outweighed possible advantages.  Woodhouse's article equally good includes references to other discussions:  Clarkson University plans to merge amongst Union Graduate College inward New York,  the Berklee College of Music exploring a merger amongst the Boston Conservatory, too talks betwixt the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies too the Maine College of Art.  Woodhouse concludes her article past times noting that fifty-fifty when a merger appears to brand a lot of feel too "...even if institutions handgrip on the nearly basic of things, there’s notwithstanding 100 ways a merger could autumn apart."

Chris Havergal provided a to a greater extent than global perspective on mergers for Times Higher Education.  He notes that experts interview believe that, "Financial pressures too global contest are probable to force to a greater extent than universities into mergers spanning international borders..."  Havergal cites the possibilities earlier noting that a "...report predicted inward 2009 that mergers betwixt the United States too U.K. universities could function commonplace, simply at that topographic point has non yet been one."

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