How a Small College Thinks It Can Survive Covid-19

Monmouth has its vulnerabilities: 900 students, a $110-million endowment, and a location — in a little hamlet of 9,000 people, with the nearest city in Galesburg, population 31,000 — in a depressed part of western Illinois, a state that has been a leading exporter of students in recent years. But Wyatt and Willhardt insisted that the college could weather the year, relying on its small size, long history, growing endowment, and solid status in the community as strengths to draw on.