Woke green college goes broke gets taken over by Catholics and liberals are losing it

Green Mountain College used to be the kind of campus the left swooned over. They bragged about their “sustainability” programs, promising to save the planet one overpriced degree at a time. The place oozed woke values—green energy posters, recycled building materials, and more compost bins than actual students. It had all the boxes checked for the globalist, progressive crowd: self-righteousness, climate panic, and a total disregard for economic reality.

But as is so often the case with liberal pipe dreams, the math didn’t add up. Turns out, you can’t pay the bills with virtue-signaling catchphrases. Students weren’t rushing to hand over tuition for degrees in “green” ideology. The campus may have been pure, but the business model was rotten. When bills kept piling up, Green Mountain College learned you can’t major in fantasy economics and minor in hope.

The collapse wasn’t just predictable—it was inevitable. Who really thought a boutique college built entirely on climate alarmism could survive in the real world? The so-called “progressive campus culture” became its own undoing. When no one’s interested in hiring angry activists with useless degrees, families stop ponying up the cash. Maybe someone in the administration should have taken a basic class in Econ 101 instead of endless “equity” seminars.

Now here’s the best part—after going broke trying to be woke, the campus is set for a total transformation. Instead of churning out more environmental crusaders, the property is being taken over by a traditional Catholic group. Imagine the outrage from the professional protest crowd! One minute, it’s a shrine to left-wing delusions; the next, actual values and faith return to the campus.

There’s a lesson here for every liberal institution: put ideology ahead of reality, and it will catch up with you. These “save the planet” colleges love to scold everyone else about responsibility, but can’t even keep their own doors open. If you need proof that progressive dreams don’t pay the bills, just look at the pile of green rubble where this college once stood. Maybe next time, they should try a curriculum based on common sense, faith, and a little good old-fashioned capitalism. When was the last time a conservative school had to close for being too responsible? Exactly.

Source: Redstate