Michigan’s Siena Heights University announces closure after 105 years

Michigan’s Siena Heights University announces closure after 105 years

Sacred Heart Hall at Siena Heights University in Adrian Michigan. / Credit: Dwight Burdette, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 3, 2025 / 13:32 pm (CNA). Siena Heights University will close at the conclusion of the ... [...]

Closure of Siena Heights University hits home, and it hurts a lot

The news that Siena Heights University was closing next year after 105 years of existence hit me like a punch to the stomach. It made me think back to the fall of 2005, when my wife and I drove to Adrian dropped off our son Cameron – a fresh-faced graduate of Fowlerville High School who had been recruited as a pole vaulter on the Siena Heights track team. We moved him into his dorm room and met his three roommates, fellow track team members who …