Hampshire College is closing its doors for good at the end of this year. This has been a long time coming and for good reasons.
Hampshire is so far left that it makes other colleges look downright conservative in comparison. In 2016, when Trump was first elected president, the students forced the school to fly the American flag at half-mast sparking outrage even in liberal Massachusetts.
That was the beginning of the end for Hampshire. By 2018, they were having financial problems and enrollment started going down. By this year, their issues became unsustainable. Now it’s all over.
WWLP News reports:
Hampshire College to close permanently after fall 2026 semester
Hampshire College’s board of trustees voted to permanently close the institution following the Fall 2026 semester. The decision comes after years of financial struggle and unsuccessful efforts to secure the college’s future.
The college has navigated financial challenges since 2019, experiencing declining enrollment, rising costs and an unstable funding environment that affects small, liberal arts colleges. Despite pursuing a financial sustainability plan and raising more than $55 million through its Change in the Making campaign, efforts in enrollment growth, debt refinancing and land development did not yield a viable path forward.
Hampshire College will provide academic, student life and transitional services to currently enrolled students through the end of the fall semester. The college will not admit a new class for Fall 2026 and all deposits from admitted students will be refunded.
This is a partial statement from the school president:
Despite this herculean effort, the financial pressures on the College’s operations have become increasingly complex, compounded by shifting external factors. As President Chrisler has shared regularly with our community and our regulatory agencies, we worked aggressively to increase enrollment, refinance existing debt, and realize new revenue via the sale of a portion of our land. We have long known that addressing these issues is essential to establishing a stable financial foundation, supporting long-term operations, and meeting regulatory requirements. We are faced with the clear, heartbreaking reality that progress on each of these three key factors has fallen far short of what we had hoped.
As a result, the Board of Trustees voted to permanently close Hampshire College.
See a video report below:
Hampshire College is closing due to declining enrollment and, dare I say it, a loss in trust of America’s liberal arts institutions. pic.twitter.com/KaWDe3qG8W
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) April 15, 2026
Our entire system of higher education needs an overhaul. In the mean time, more schools like Hampshire will close.
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