The college named after America’s legendary president is closing Friday, about six weeks after a shocking announcement that lower-than-anticipated enrollment would cause the 157-year-old predominantly Black institution to shut down.
Fikirte Mott, foreground, and other students during a business class at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Illinois, on April 12, 2022. The college may shut down because of the COVID-19 pandemic and a ransomware attack that caused a system outage for more than a month.
Enrollment had already been trending downward, but a ransomware attack that struck in December knocked out the college’s computer system and obscured how dire the picture had become, President David Gerlach told the Tribune last month.Service was restored after the college paid a ransom Gerlach said was less than six figures. That’s when the college figured out that instead of the modest increase administrators were counting on, enrollment would remain flat.
Aside from the personal disruption, she worried for her hometown of 13,500. Lincoln College is one of Lincoln’s largest employers, and the students it attracted from other parts of the state, country and world gave the town a diversity it will now lose, she said.
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