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Notre Dame de Namur is celebrating its 100th anniversary as administrators prepare to sell the California campus to keep the institution afloat. Notre Dame de Namur University administrators are marking the 100th anniversary of the Roman Catholic institution’s current San Francisco Bay area campus this month and celebrating a milestone that was far from a certainty just a few years ago when some people were predicting its demise.

Butler County Community College and Penn State Shenango are considering sharing a campus as the state wrestles with demographic shifts and declining enrollment. Leaders of Butler County Community College and Pennsylvania State University at Shenango are considering moving one of the community college’s campuses to the university as a cost-saving measure after steep enrollment declines at both institutions.

A debate in Wisconsin over the possibility of merging a two-year state institution with a two-year technical college highlights questions of realignment faced by public college systems across the country. Five years after a controversial restructuring merged the University of Wisconsin System’s two-year liberal arts colleges with its four-year institutions, many of the same challenges that spurred the redesign remain.

Standardized education does not benefit people, because people are far from standardized. Read here about how schools can create individualized education.

Michael B. Horn and his guest, Black Mothers Forum’s Tiffany Dudley, explore the growing prominence of microschools in the U.S.