Rolling higher education into the shitbin thread

I was sad to hear that University of the Arts closed. Two years ago the art school right behind my house, the San Francisco Art Institute, which like University of the Arts dates back to the 1870s, also closed abruptly. SFAI had a towering history with many famous artists who were graduates and/or educators. A beautiful and famous Diego Rivera mural is left behind. The reason given has been that such a small school with high costs and a small endowment isn’t going to work in today’s environment

I also learned from watching Kelly Reichardt’s Showing Up that it was filmed at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in Portland, by all accounts an amazing school that was over 100 years old, after it closed in 2019