Christopher Rose was close to finishing his third year at Fontbonne University in St. Louis last March when the entire student body received a message to meet in the school’s main gymnasium. After the students gathered, the college’s president announced that Fontbonne would be closing at the end of the summer term in August 2025.
“It shook a lot of students,” says Rose. “A lot of kids were in the same position as me, with uncertainty about the future and having to scramble to find a path forward. It had been a close community, like a second home. Everybody worried about financial aid and transferring credits.”
