An unorthodox partnership is saving 153-year-old private Bloomfield College in NJ from having to close its doors — thanks to a nearby public university.
The majority of students at the school are Black and Hispanic, the average family income $32,000. Money was running out at the school, and last year could have been it’s last.
“We’re both institutions that are about serving folks who don’t necessarily have the smoothest path to a college degree," said Montclair State University President Dr. Jonathan Koppell."We weren’t going to sit here and watch a sister institution with a shared purpose struggle through it and ultimately fade away because they’re doing what we are ultimately trying to do ourselves.”
“The goal is to create this window for us to come up with something bigger, a partnership," said Bloomfield College President Dr. Marcheta Evans."Getting a degree transforms not only that student's life, but the family system as well. So working through whatever the new model is going to be transformative, not only for students and Bloomfield, but the state of New Jersey as well.”
“We don't want to do the same thing that others are doing with their mergers," Dr. Evans said."How can we come up with a model for higher educations that can be transformative — working to improve our graduation rate, our retention rate, but then transforming our student’s lives."
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