Dowling College struggles with enrollment, finances
Photo credit: Michael E. Ach | Dowling College in Oakdale before the fall semester starts. (Aug. 5, 2010)
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Dowling College -- tucked away on Suffolk County's South Shore -- faces a fiscal storm stemming from steep enrollment losses, millions of dollars of debt, a small endowment and a poor borrowing rating, records and interviews with school officials and educational experts show.
The private liberal arts school, whose picturesque main campus is in Oakdale on the banks of the Connetquot River,...
