RANDOLPH, Vt. — The thermostat was turned low in the admissions office at Vermont State University on a cold winter morning. It’s “one of our efficiencies,” quipped David Bergh, the institution’s president, who works in the same building. Bergh was joking. But he was referring to something decidedly serious: the public university system’s struggle to […] The post As public colleges begin to merge or shut down, one state shows how hard it is appeared first on The Hechinger Report.