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The School of Saint Rose, a century-old Roman Catholic School in Albany, New York, will shut in Might 2024 after years of economic struggles, school officers introduced Friday.
“It’s with a heavy coronary heart that the Board determined to shut the faculty on the finish of this tutorial yr,” Jeffrey D. Stone, chair of the faculty’s board of trustees, which voted to shut the college on Thursday, mentioned in an announcement. “The Board decided that the School doesn’t have the monetary assets to function for the complete 2024-2025 tutorial yr and due to this fact can’t stay a standalone establishment.”
Stone added, “We’re devastated that regardless of all our efforts we have been unable to keep away from closure. Our purpose now’s to ease the transition for our college students, school, and employees.”
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The school will assist college students both graduate in Might or proceed their research elsewhere, officers mentioned, and the human assets division will help school, directors and employees of their job search.
The School of Saint Rose was based in 1920 by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet as a girls’s school. It turned totally co-educational in 1969.
The varsity has provided a spread of liberal arts applications whereas specializing in coaching academics, with undergraduate and graduate levels in fields reminiscent of early childhood schooling, instructional management and faculty psychology.
Notable alumni embody “Tonight Present” host Jimmy Fallon, who additionally served because the 2009 graduation speaker.
School of Saint Rose alumnus Jimmy Fallon shows a sweatshirt from his alma mater throughout a 2009 graduation speech on the faculty. (AP Photograph/Hans Pennink, File)
The announcement of the faculty’s closing occurred on the identical day that its girls’s soccer staff did not advance within the NCAA Division II East regional ultimate in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The staff tied Adelphi 1-1, then misplaced a penalty-kick shootout to find out which staff would attain the nationwide quarterfinals.
Like many liberal arts schools, Saint Rose struggled to keep up its enrollment and stability its books in recent times, and its woes have been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
The school has about 2,600 present college students, down from 4,000 in 2019, the final yr earlier than the pandemic hit. Saint Rose axed greater than a dozen tutorial applications in 2021 to economize however failed to realize solvency.
School President Marcia White mentioned that along with chopping tutorial applications, the faculty laid off employees, lowered salaries and pension contributions, bought nonessential buildings and refinanced debt.
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These efforts have been unable to offset the continued deficit, White instructed the campus group at a gathering on Friday. She mentioned the projected working money deficit for this yr is $11.3 million.
“We need to lengthen our sympathy and concern to the scholars, school, employees, and alumni of The School of Saint Rose. All of us hoped that today wouldn’t come,” Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and Albany County Govt Daniel P. McCoy mentioned in an announcement after the choice to shut the college was reported Thursday,
Sheehan and McCoy mentioned they’d work along with school officers, builders and authorities leaders to “reimagine” the faculty’s 46-acre campus within the Pine Hills neighborhood of Albany, the capital of New York state.
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Havidán Rodríguez, the president of the College at Albany, a part of the general public State College of New York system, mentioned the information “reminds us of the tenuous scenario for a lot of establishments of upper schooling throughout the nation following the impacts of COVID-19 and the demographic shifts that we’re confronting, particularly in our area.”
