Marlboro College and University of Bridgeport drop plans to merge. Marlboro says it's optimistic about finding another partner. It wasn’t the right fit after all: two months after announcing their merger, the University of Bridgeport and Marlboro College are calling it quits. Details about the failed deal are few, as both institutions signed nondisclosure agreements prior to signing a letter of intent to merge in late July. But Marlboro has said it sought to preserve its self-directed curriculum, self-governance structures and bucolic Vermont campus through the deal. And Laura Skandera Trombley, Bridgeport’s president, said in a campus memo that Marlboro’s “challenges are too great for us to proceed.”
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