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November 21, 2008 | 2:09 pm
Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

Jewish nonprofits, of course, are not the only institutions being subsumed by this economic avalanche. Cascade College, a small Christian school in Portland, Ore., that two of my friends attended, is shutting down after its spring semester ends. The money to keep going just isn’t there. And Cascade may not be the last casualty in Christian academia:
Every year, a handful of institutions go under. And while a wave of college closings is unlikely, the economic turmoil could accelerate the pace.
In addition to Cascade, another Christian institution, Taylor University, announced last month that it would close the undergraduate program at a branch campus in Fort Wayne, Ind., while Pillsbury Baptist Bible College in Owatonna, Minn., said it would close.
And on Wednesday, Vennard College, a Christian school in Iowa that was down to about 80 students, said it would close at the end of the current semester - two years shy of its 100th birthday. More closing announcements could come next semester, or next fall, when schools find out how many of their students don’t return.
Decreased enrollment has been reported at private schools, religious and secular, across the country. Even Los Angeles’ premiere prep schools are feeling the pinch.
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The promised land of abundance to a wilderness of economic uncertainty.This recession is a new place for most of us. We had come to assume uninterrupted economic growth and the safety and stability of our investments and of the institutions we treasure and support churches, seminaries,colleges,hospitals.
I dont agree with the thought, recession is now on the verge of getting over, and i have not heard any of the so called christian college getting closed
Mike
I know that Cascade College was closed in May 2009, and this news is really said, because for many it’s not just a building made of bricks and stones, but also its people who lived in a family and the atmosphere. Nevertheless, those who are craving for Christian higher education can obtain it at the Cascade College’s parent campus- Oklahoma Christian University.