Finlandia University Had a Plan to Save Itself. It Didn’t Work.

The leaders of Finlandia University (MI) announced an ambitious plan in the spring of 2014 to expand the small Upper Peninsula school founded to educate the children of Finnish immigrants. It began with football. The school had spent more than $2 million updating an athletic field acquired from the Hancock Public Schools with lights, artificial turf, bleachers and a scoreboard. It would field a football team for the first time in its history in the fall of 2015.