Fordham announces decision to close Marymount College in 2007

Published: 2006-01-16

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CNS) -- Marymount College in Tarrytown will close in June 2007, nearly five years after consolidating with Fordham University in New York. "Despite the very best efforts of the faculty, administration and staff, it is no longer academically or financially feasible to continue to operate Marymount College as a separate school within the university," said John N. Tognino, chairman of the Fordham board of trustees, in a statement. "This was a very difficult decision because we know how deeply our students valued the supportive environment of an all-women's college and how many alumnae have flourished and excelled because of the strengths they developed at Marymount," he added. The Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, who founded the college in 1907, said they were "deeply saddened" at the decision to close the school.

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