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Times are tough for small, private colleges. FAFSA fiascos, enrollment cliffs, return-on-investment concerns—it’s a lot. So when I read about the “biblical devastation” that Hurricane Helene brought to Western North Carolina, I assumed the crisis would be existential for small mountain colleges. […]

Matt Hartman is a higher education reporter for The Assembly and co-anchor of our weekly higher education newsletter, The Quad. He was previously a longtime freelance journalist and spent nearly a decade working in higher ed communications before joining The Assembly in 2024.