{"podcast":{"title":"The College Investor Audio Show","slug":"the-college-investor-audio-show-414113","podcast_index_feed_id":414113,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/the-college-investor/","website_url":"https://thecollegeinvestor.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/f3c20c77-1ea5-4d2e-a65a-e87b0a5c9f68/college-investor-podcast-cover-c1.png","author":"The College Investor","episode_count":1036,"summary":"The College Investor podcast is a daily audio show that's dedicated to bringing you the best of TheCollegeInvestor.com. We discuss a variety of topics, all relating to millennial money - including student loan debt, investing, earning more money, and more! Robert Farrington, the founder of The College Investor and a Millennial Money Expert, shares how to get out of student loan debt so that you can start investing and building wealth for the future. Instead of cutting expenses and living a frugal life, he advocates side hustling and entrepreneurship to earn extra money to achieve your financial goals.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-30T20:18:09.903988+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113"},"episode":{"title":"8 Colleges Closing In 2026: Here's What To Know About These Closures And Mergers","slug":"8-colleges-closing-in-2026-here-s-what-to-know-about-these-closures-and-mergers","published_at":"2026-05-14T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113/8-colleges-closing-in-2026-here-s-what-to-know-about-these-closures-and-mergers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113","url":"https://thecollegeinvestor.com/79342/8-colleges-closing-in-2026-full-list-of-closures/","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/6a9d9e73-126a-481c-acbe-a8414f8b02b6.mp3","summary":"Anna Maria College's closure announcement last week brought the 2026 U.S. nonprofit college shutdown count to eight. The 80-year-old institution in Paxton, Massachusetts said its Board of Trustees could no longer project the financial resources to sustain academic operations past the spring 2026 semester. This decision came less than two weeks after the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education formally flagged the college as a closure risk. Anna Maria's announcement came the same day workers at Hampshire College (which announced its own permanent closure on April 14) launched a relief fund ahead of June layoffs. Together, the two Massachusetts institutions underscored the accelerating pressure on small, tuition-dependent liberal arts colleges in the Northeast. Since the summer of 2025, a steady cadence of small-college shutdowns and high-profile mergers have reshaped parts of American higher education. A parallel trend has emerged: a growing number of schools are choosing merger or acquisition instead of winding down.","meta_description":"Anna Maria College's closure announcement last week brought the 2026 U.S. nonprofit college shutdown count to eight. The 80-year-old institution in Paxton…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":539,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113/episodes/8-colleges-closing-in-2026-here-s-what-to-know-about-these-closures-and-mergers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-college-investor-audio-show-414113/8-colleges-closing-in-2026-here-s-what-to-know-about-these-closures-and-mergers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}