The Chronicle of Higher Education

A Home for Alumni of a Defunct College

When debt forced Bishop College to close in 1988, alumni of the historically black institution in Texas had no campus to call home. Twenty years later, Bishop alumni are beginning to rally around their adoptive home, tiny Georgetown College, a mostly white institution nestled in Kentucky horse country.

Georgetown's president,...

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