{"id":71729,"date":"2026-04-14T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/an-incalculable-loss-hampshire-college-to-close-doors-after-fall-semester\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T19:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T00:00:35","slug":"an-incalculable-loss-hampshire-college-to-close-doors-after-fall-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/an-incalculable-loss-hampshire-college-to-close-doors-after-fall-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An incalculable loss\u2019: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts liberal arts college laments \u2018heartbreaking reality\u2019 and says financial pressures to blame<\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts liberal arts college is set to close permanently due to low enrollment and financial problems.<\/p>\n<p>The board of trustees of Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in Amherst founded in 1965, pointed to \u201cfinancial pressures\u201d that have been \u201ccompounded by shifting external factors\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/14\/hampshire-college-massachusetts-closure\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts liberal arts college laments \u2018heartbreaking reality\u2019 and says financial pressures to blame A Massachusetts liberal arts college is set to close permanently due to low enrollment and financial problems. The board of trustees of Hampshire College, a small liberal arts school in Amherst founded in 1965, pointed to \u201cfinancial pressures\u201d that have been \u201ccompounded &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018An incalculable loss\u2019: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/14\/an-incalculable-loss-hampshire-college-to-close-doors-after-fall-semester\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018An incalculable loss\u2019: Hampshire College to close doors after fall semester\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}