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The small colleges that won’t die

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AMHERST, Mass. — When Alex Robinson told relatives and friends he was considering going to Hampshire College, “every single person was, like, ‘Oh, isn’t that the school that’s shutting down?’ ”

Hampshire had, after all, announced that it was searching for a merger partner as it grappled with grim financial and enrollment projections. In 2020, it accepted no new students at all, and its future remained uncertain.

But for Robinson, who attended an art high school in New York, “It was definitely worth the risk” to enroll in the fall at this small college with its alternative curriculum of self-directed learning and no grades or majors — shaky though its fate might seem. “I felt like I would be happy here.”

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