West Virginia college announces plan to close weeks before new school year

PHILIPPI, W. Va. – Summer isn’t over yet, but the sense of fall and a new school year is just around the corner. For students at Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia, though, life just became much more complicated. The University announced plans to cease operations after its board of trustees voted Monday to close the school, according to reports. The board of trustees’ decision to close Alderson comes just four weeks before fall semester classes were set to begin Aug. 28. “As you can imagine, we are currently focused...