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This week’s must-read: Unity Environmental University has grown into an online behemoth while shifting away from its built environment in Maine. |
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By Kate Hidalgo Bellows |
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Last week, a college known historically for its residential liberal-arts education shed its longtime campus for good. The institution hasn’t closed. In fact, it’s enrolling more students than ever before. But Unity Environmental University, formerly Unity College, no longer enrolls any undergraduates at its home base in rural Maine. Unity has offloaded the real estate, at a price of $6 million. The sale, to a buyer who plans to use the 225 acres for summer-camp programming and outdoor experiences, caps off a yearslong pivot in which the institution has completely remade itself. |
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