Patten University is Closing

[eLearner]

They specifically mentioned that pricing had something to do with it.  I think it was simply that they could not make the program work at that price point.

Who is "they"? I see that the edSurge article claims Thomas Stewart said: the one thing that the company’s Patten University never got quite right was the price to make the institution sustainable.

And to that I say, if they were running their business competently, the price should've been fine as there are much larger programs with even cheaper pricing structures (see Ashworth College for example, or even Penn Foster who they sold their CBE platform to in 2015) that have been going along fine for many years. As I've mentioned, the lack of enrollments would seem to be a bigger matter (800 is not great) since without enough of them that becomes the primary issue.

So yes, JFK may not be the option that someone who was thinking of Patten would go to - but it doesn't matter because they don't have that option any longer, nor are there other programs priced the same.

And that is almost exactly my point which is why I called it a shame. Restating the obvious--that the school is no longer open--is redundant and doesn't at all change the original point.