Students, faculty and staff are long gone from Notre Dame College. Yet their presence – and their stuff – still lingers across the Northeast Ohio campus.
One of those items is an April 2024 calendar tacked to a bulletin board, showing events happening the month before the college closed. Officials cited ongoing financial and enrollment issues as motivating factors. Notre Dame and 16 other small nonprofit private colleges closed across the country that year, a record high.
In a Notre Dame art studio, a plate of long-dried red paint sits next to what appears to be a partially completed statue. A former administrator’s office now houses only a dusty desk, two rogue sets of keys and stacks of manila folders…