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Seattle University to absorb Cornish College of the Arts
Seattle University (SU) will absorb Cornish College of the Arts, finalizing a deal that will see the 110-year-old arts institution close by the end of May. All faculty and staff at Cornish will be laid off at the end of May.
The two private colleges announced Tuesday that their boards had approved an agreement for SU to acquire Cornish’s assets. The transaction is set to close on May 31, months ahead of the original 2025 timeline.
“(The agreement) entrusts Seattle University with Cornish’s long legacy of excellence and innovation in arts education. We welcome this responsibility as a generational opportunity to elevate and enhance the arts and arts education at SU for students and the broader community we, and Cornish, have served for more than 100 years,” Eduardo Peñalver, Seattle University president, said in a statement.
Seattle U plans to establish a new Cornish College of the Arts on Cornish’s existing campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood of Seattle by the start of the fall 2025 academic term.
After transition, there will be roughly 127 jobs lost
With the transition, Cornish will cease to exist as an independent, nonprofit degree-granting institution.
The transition impacts Cornish’s 40 full-time faculty and 87 staff members, all of whom will be laid off, according to The Seattle Times. Seattle U has committed to rehiring some employees but has not specified how many. Severance packages will be provided for those not offered positions.
Cornish’s 437 students, including incoming freshmen, will transition to SU in fall 2025 while continuing their studies at the Cornish campus. They will also have access to SU’s resources, including counseling, health services, and recreational facilities.
Students who graduate from the Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University will receive their degree from Seattle University.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
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