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Trinity Western’s $125 Million Bet: Keep the Faith, Lose the Walls
Canada’s largest Christian university learned the cost of turning conviction into a gate. Now it is chasing 10,000 learners with online degrees, global partnerships and a divinity-school gift - without sanding away the belief system people come for.
Union College
The little college in Schenectady that put engineering inside the liberal arts, minted a president, and never stopped calling itself Union.
St. Norbert College
At St. Norbert College, a 900-year tradition of communio now sits beside applied AI, cybersecurity and a five-year BBA-to-MBA path. The experiment is not to replace the liberal arts, but to make an old promise useful in a changing market.
Letterly
Letterly is an AI-powered writing education platform that pairs students ages 8-18 with human coaches to build literacy through daily writing, structured feedback, and real publishing. Founded by former Wall Street analyst Jane Chen, the company runs multi-week bootcamps where students draft, revise, and publish articles - and even ship a physical copy of a book they author. Letterly reports serving more than 3,000 students across 30 states and seven countries, with students improving roughly half a grade level in eight weeks.
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana to fight cholera and yellow fever. Now one of 71 members of the Association of American Universities, it enrolls roughly 14,000-15,000 students across schools spanning medicine, public health and tropical medicine, law, architecture, business, science and engineering, social work and liberal arts. Known for a deep service ethic - it became the first major U.S. research university to require public service for graduation after Hurricane Katrina - Tulane pairs high-level research with a distinctive New Orleans culture.