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Concordia College New York to close its doors after 140 years
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Jan 28, 2021, 6:08pm EST
Concordia College New York announced that it will close its doors after 140 years.
The school also announced on Thursday it has agreed to sell the Bronxville campus to Iona College in New Rochelle.
The merger will not happen until the fall semester of 2021.
Iona College President Dr. Seamus Carey says the hope is to help most, if not all, of Concordia s 1,700 students continue their education at Iona.
Carey says the two schools have a lot of the same programs. Carey says if they don t offer the program, Iona will look into the possibility of keeping Concordia faculty on for those courses or they will work with students to get them to other institutions that have the classes and majors they need.
Concordia College of New York campus
The Concordia University system must brace for yet another closure. Concordia College New York, a small, Lutheran liberal arts college in Bronxville, N.Y., will close this summer, it announced Thursday.
Iona College, a private Roman Catholic institution in nearby New Rochelle, N.Y., will purchase the Concordia campus. The two colleges are also developing a teach-out plan for Concordia students to complete their degrees at Iona.
The decision to close Concordia was pre-emptive, said John Nunes, its president.
“The two paths that financially challenged institutions go down is either the precipitous close ‘oops, we ran out of money, and now we have to close’ or, the long, lingering, threadbare existence,” Nunes said. “In January, our board decided that they didn’t want to go down either of those two paths.”
UpdatedFri, Jan 29, 2021 at 2:15 pm ET
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Ioan College in New Rochelle will acquire Concordia College s Bronxville campus. (Google Maps screenshot)
NEW ROCHELLE, NY Iona College will acquire Concordia College New York s Bronxville campus, after the latter institution announced it would cease operations in the fall.
Both colleges announced Thursday they are proceeding with a formal agreement that will allow Iona to provide continued education for Concordia students through a teach-out plan that would enable most students to continue their degrees to completion at Iona.
Concordia s classes will cease beginning with the fall 2021 semester, and the college will close.
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According to a spokesperson, details of the agreement are being finalized and are subject to regulatory approval. The agreement is expected to be completed by summer 2021.