Two neighbors on Massachusetts’ North Shore — Salem State University and the Montserrat College of Art — spent more than half a year immersed in detailed and time-consuming merger negotiations, only to find in the end that a union that seemed beneficial at first would actually end up being a financial drain.
Mergers by nature are complicated undertakings, particularly when a public university is considering absorbing a private institution, as was the case with Salem State and Montserrat.
On the surface, a merger made sense.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/08/05/college-merger-negotiations-are-long-and-complicated
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