A new wave of former Marlboro College faculty, staff and students is trying to keep the Vermont campus open.
More than 40 people publicly supporting the effort to keep the Marlboro College on its own campus. Among them: Tim Segar, who was a visual arts professor at Marlboro College for over 20 years.
"I just am dedicated to Marlboro as a free-standing, independent institution that has a lot of unique qualities which will not transfer to Emerson 鈥� can鈥檛 really," he said.
The first outward signs of big change came in July 2019, when with the University of Bridgeport, in Connecticut.
, and Marlboro's board of trustees said it would continue to pursue other options.
Less than a month later, a plan was announced that would close the Vermont campus and Marlboro would
In December 2019, a group of local residents and former faculty members asked the college to that would keep the Vermont campus open.
And then, in January, came the open letter. Segar, the former visual arts professor, acknowledged the ask the letter makes is a tough one.
"I don鈥檛 know that any of us have a high level of confidence in another plan until such a plan is developed," he said. "I think that we鈥檙e just confident that Marlboro has been through tough times before."
The Marlboro campus is scheduled to close in the spring. Faculty and students are allowed to move to Emerson College .
