Future of Division III

[y_jack_lok]

The future of Division III is housing.  Eastern Nazarene, Cazenovia, Iowa Wesleyan and other references.

https://globecollegetown.substack.com/p/closed-colleges-could-be-great-for-housing

This got me wondering what has become of the MacMurray College campus. A quick Google search turned this up:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+macmurray+college+used+for+today+in+2026&sca_esv=239f60c903341dc9&sxsrf=APpeQnvutXp17qvqPEfu6lxOR5FD6ISPjw%3A1791382213954&ei=xVLGaoDqOY_Ap84PzOnW8Qg&ved=2ahUKEwjA4JPkiqiXAxUP4MkDHcy0NY4Q4dUDegQIBhAM&uact=5&oq=what+is+macmurray+college+used+for+today+in+2026&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiMHdoYXQgaXMgbWFjbXVycmF5IGNvbGxlZ2UgdXNlZCBmb3IgdG9kYXkgaW4gMjAyNjIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABMgUQIRigATIFECEYoAEyBRAhGKABSP6eAVDwDli3mwFwAngAkAEAmAF6oAGTFqoBBTIwLjEwuAEDyAEA-AEBmAIfoALDFsICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPCAgYQABgHGB7CAgsQABiABBiKBRiGA8ICBRAAGO8FwgIIEAAYCBgHGB7CAgoQIRgKGKABGMMEwgIIECEYoAEYwwTCAgUQIRifBcICBRAhGKsCwgIFECEYkgOYAwCIBgGQBgiSBwUyMC4xMaAH7rMBsgcFMTguMTG4B7sWwgcEMi4yOcgHM4AIAQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp

[WUPHF]

This got me wondering what has become of the MacMurray College campus. A quick Google search turned this up:

That is awesome.

Randomly, I have a friend who lives in St. Louis and is from Jacksonville.  Her father was on a few of the steering committees that worked on MacMurray related projects.  If I understand correctly, the community mobilized quickly and worked very hard to make things happen.

[Ron Boerger]

From yesterday's D3Playbook newsletter:

"There are basically two ways a college gets into trouble.

One is not having enough cushion to take continued blows: a couple of bad enrollment years or a hit to the budget, and there's not much in reserve to absorb them. The other shows up after students leave, when they're holding degrees that don't earn much and debt that takes a long time to pay down. Some schools have one of those problems and not the other.

Some, unfortunately, have both."

» Driving The News. "U.S. four-year colleges and universities face compounding pressures — demographic decline, fiscal stress, and artificial intelligence — that will reshape the sector over the next decade. This project maps where 1,557 institutions are structurally positioned across two dimensions, using public data anyone can verify."

This information has been presented in a different form here in the past, but if you'd like you can check out where your schools (or schools in your state, or a number of different options) sit at Kyle Saunders' site here.

[CNU85]

From yesterday's D3Playbook newsletter:

"There are basically two ways a college gets into trouble.

One is not having enough cushion to take continued blows: a couple of bad enrollment years or a hit to the budget, and there's not much in reserve to absorb them. The other shows up after students leave, when they're holding degrees that don't earn much and debt that takes a long time to pay down. Some schools have one of those problems and not the other.

Some, unfortunately, have both."

» Driving The News. "U.S. four-year colleges and universities face compounding pressures — demographic decline, fiscal stress, and artificial intelligence — that will reshape the sector over the next decade. This project maps where 1,557 institutions are structurally positioned across two dimensions, using public data anyone can verify."

This information has been presented in a different form here in the past, but if you'd like you can check out where your schools (or schools in your state, or a number of different options) sit at Kyle Saunders' site here.

Good stuff. I tend to agree with where CNU falls on the grid. I was slightly surprised where my Grad school placed. Upper far right. interesting. thanks for sharing