Like most Louisiana girls, Marsharae Cage knows that her mom’s words come from the heart. When her mother suggested a career in the mortuary business or healthcare field for lifetime
More than a dozen colleges announced closures this year. Most struggled with enrollment issues that only accelerated after the coronavirus pandemic. Nonprofit colleges and universities that announced closures this year largely fit the same profile: mostly small, private, tuition-dependent institutions with meager endowments that have seen enrollment slipping for years and have been unable to recover from those sustained losses.