Mount Ida was sure that the merger it was negotiating with nearby Lasell College would happen, Brown said — so sure that Mount Ida had already admitted a new class of students.

“Over the past six years, Mount Ida has undergone extraordinary growth, increasing its enrollment from under 1,100 to close to 1,600 students,” wrote Brown, who took over in 2012.

Mount Ida names Barry Brown its new president . expand. New Mount Ida College president Barry Brown. By ...

Mount Ida College, a ... "The challenges for small colleges in the current economic and demographic landscape are significant," said Barry Brown, the school's president, in a statement.

Brown was the eighth and last president of Mount Ida College. He started the job on July 1, 2012, following a career at Suffolk University Law School, including as provost and also acting ...

Mount Ida College President Barry Brown in a statement Sunday: “Both Mount Ida College and Lasell College have rich histories steeped in traditions, and values that are vital to our respective ...

Howard Cooper, representing former Mount Ida president Barry Brown, argued that Brown, the college and its trustees have been unfairly "bashed in the court of public opinion." ...

Lawmakers angry that Mount Ida College bigwigs ducked an oversight hearing into the Newton school’s abrupt closure threatened to subpoena their testimonies on the controversial deal with the ...

When Barry Brown took over as president of Mount Ida College in 2012, he embarked on an ambitious plan to make the school's 72-acre campus in Newton more attractive to potential students.

Former Mount Ida College president Barry Brown, in his first public interview about the school’s closure, blamed its shutdown on Lasell College’s unexpected change of ...

Brown was the eighth and last president of Mount Ida College. He started the job on July 1, 2012, following a career at Suffolk University Law School, including as provost and also acting ...