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TOP STORY
1. Financially Strapped Rosemont College Will Merge With Villanova University

by Susan Snyder, Philadelphia Inquirer

“The financially struggling Rosemont College has struck a definitive agreement to merge into neighboring Villanova University, beginning in 2027 and becoming final in 2028, officials from the Catholic schools said Monday.

While both schools have vowed to honor the legacy and history of the more than century-old Rosemont and tenure and tenure-track faculty will be offered contracts to teach at Villanova, the agreement means that the Philadelphia region eventually will be losing its second Catholic college in a short time frame.

Cabrini University in Radnor closed its doors for good last May, and Villanova also purchased that campus.”

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