A decade ago, the thought of a company such as Lego getting involved in higher education would have been scoffed at by Danish academics. Private universities are not currently permitted, and public ones cannot charge tuition fees. However, the country's government is preparing a change to the law to allow private universities, and its academics are hacked off.
In a state where higher education is dominated by flagships and football, Southwestern University is a bit of an outlier. Just about 30 minutes away from the University of Texas at Austin, it has only 1,300 students, all of them undergraduates. Football there is intramural—and flag.
Nonprofit colleges in financial trouble have options other than merging, shutting down, or, as was the case for institutions like the College of Santa Fe and Daniel Webster, Kendall, and Waldorf Colleges, selling themselves to for-profit higher-education companies.