A little before 11 a.m. on a cool Thursday in April, an email landed in the inboxes of Anna Maria College community members. That afternoon, there would be an all-college, in-person-only meeting.
Some employees skipped the meeting, not thinking much of it, and focused instead on registering students for next semester’s classes.
But Craig Blais, a tenured English professor, knew something was wrong. An eerie silence had lingered on campus since an April 10 warning from the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education that the college might not have “sufficient resources” to continue operating or educating students this year and next…