Last month Marlboro College and merge with Emerson College, in Boston. Now a group led by former faculty members says it's working on a different plan.
Retired faculty members T. Hunter Wilson and Adrian Segar are Wilson said he believes there鈥檚 a way to keep the college viable.
"Marlboro College is not an institution like some of the others that have closed that were mired in debt," he said. "Marlboro has a substantial endowment and very little debt."
Wilson noted the school does have clear enrollment problems, but said he thinks that can be fixed.
"It's a disaster to be resisted, rather than inevitability simply to be accepted," he said.
Wilson said they're working , faculty and alumni on creating an alternative plan.
"If we鈥檙e given time actually to follow through on this, we may be able to pull it together," he said.
Wilson admits it鈥檚 an uphill battle. But, he said, Marlboro College has always faced an uncertain future.
"I don鈥檛 think it鈥檚 a certainty at all," said Wilson. "But we鈥檝e got through 76 years of uncertainty already, so I think we can get through this one."
