Cabrini University, founded in 1957 by the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, announced that it will close in 2024. Cabrini has reached a tentative agreement to sell its property to Villanova University.
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Cabrini University to close in 2024 after years of financial trouble; Villanova to buy campus property
Cabrini University will close after its 2024 spring semester, and there is a tentative agreement to …
This is happening all over the place with low prestige colleges. I would expect it to increase in frequency over the next few years as people have less to spend on “education,” while rightly questioning the value of the product.
Very sad, but at least it didn't sell it's property to Eastern University, which is just across the street. That's a fundamentalist Protestant institution which really is a dump. Villanova is a great University, even though it's not especially Catholic anymore. I feel sorry for St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Heaven. She must be really weeping, not so much for Cabrini College, but for the religious …More
Very sad, but at least it didn't sell it's property to Eastern University, which is just across the street. That's a fundamentalist Protestant institution which really is a dump. Villanova is a great University, even though it's not especially Catholic anymore. I feel sorry for St. Frances Xavier Cabrini in Heaven. She must be really weeping, not so much for Cabrini College, but for the religious Order of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart which she worked so hard to establish and spread around the world. She founded the Order in the 1880's, and died in 1917 in the USA. Even in her day, the Order really grew, and had close to 1,000 sisters even before she passed away. She was especially mindful of Italian immigrants, and established schools, hospitals, and other institutions to care for them in the USA and elsewhere (Argentina), and then lived to see the Order branch out to serve all people. Her Order had a very somber, all black habit, but very beautiful. Right before Vatican II, they had 2,200 sisters. Today, there are less than 200, mostly in Italy, with a median age of 80. In the USA , there were over 500+ before Vatican II, but today if there are 10 they are lucky. All their institutions in the USA have either been sold, or taken over by another Order or secular group. Most are closed.....as will Cabrini College be in 2024. Nothing much is left of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini's Order....that is why she is probably crying in Heaven. Cabrini College is the latest to go. At least a "catholic" University bought it. The Eastern University I mentioned will probably be closed down in a few years too.
