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Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:30
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TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - Five years after acquiring Marymount College and two months after closing it, Fordham University announced Friday that it is planning to sell the 24-acre Marymount campus above the Hudson River in Westchester County.Marymount, a small, Catholic women's college, had operated on the site in Tarrytown since 1918. Fordham took over its operations seven years ago and merged it into the Jesuit university in 2002 but announced in 2005 that this year's class would be Marymount's last.The campus also has housed Fordham's part-time College of Liberal Studies and the graduate schools of business, education, and social service.The Rev. Joseph McShane, Fordham's president, said, 'Though it is sad that the Marymount College campus must pass from Fordham's ownership, Marymount alumnae will have a home wherever Fordham exists.'He said Fordham's Westchester operations would move to smaller quarters. The campus was too big for Fordham's needs, he said, 'and attendant overhead and costs are impossible to justify.'The site's zoning would allow single-family homes on half-acre lots as well as continued educational use. On Wednesday, Tarrytown's Board of Trustees agreed to study whether three buildings at the heart of the campus should be landmarked.Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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