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MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:30 pm

Illinois College to Close, Hurt by Pandemic and Ransomware Attack
The historically Black Lincoln College will cease operations Friday after 157 years, having failed to raise millions to recover from the pandemic and a cyberattack that originated in Iran.

By Christine Chung
May 9, 2022, 5:15 p.m. ET

Lincoln College, a historically Black college in Illinois, will close this week after 157 years, saying it could not survive the financial challenges of the coronavirus pandemic and a ransomware attack last year.

“The loss of history, careers, and a community of students and alumni is immense,” David Gerlach, the college’s president, said in a statement.

Reached by email on Monday, Mr. Gerlach declined to comment further.

Founded in 1865 and named for Abraham Lincoln, the college had survived the 1918 influenza pandemic, multiple recessions and two world wars.

But the pandemic led to a drop in enrollment and forced the college to make costly investments in new technology, according to the statement. Then, in December 2021, a ransomware attack walled off the school’s access to its data and halted its recruitment, retention and fund-raising campaigns.

Lincoln College, in Lincoln, Ill., has not said how much it eventually paid to regain access to its data, though Mr. Gerlach told The Chicago Tribune that it paid a ransom of less than $100,000. The ransomware attack originated in Iran, he told The Tribune.

When the college’s access to its data was restored in March, projections showed “significant enrollment shortfalls” that would require a “transformational donation or partnership to sustain Lincoln College beyond the current semester,” the school’s statement said. Mr. Gerlach told The Tribune last month that Lincoln needed $50 million to stay open. The money did not materialize.


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/09/us/l ... osure.html

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:47 pm

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:30 pm

Wow, I feel weird, I want to congratz Ms. Daisy, but on the other hand I was told it's inappropriate to admit that any lady is over the age of 39....
Yeah, I know where the door is...

HAPPY B-DAY!!!!

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:56 pm

Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:47 pm

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 10:30 pm

Wow, I feel weird, I want to congratz Ms. Daisy, but on the other hand I was told it's inappropriate to admit that any lady is over the age of 39....
Yeah, I know where the door is...

HAPPY B-DAY!!!!

I see it as every year you survive as a badge of honor, and the older you get the greater the honor.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Mayor Eric Adams warned allowing food vendors without permits to sell fruit in the city’s subway system could lead to people bringing propane tanks into the system and barbecuing by train tracks.

His argument about food sales came after police handcuffed Maria Falcon, a mom selling mangoes and kiwis in a subway station. She was taken into custody on April 29 at the Broadway Junction station. Falcon has a food vendor license, but she does not have a permit to vend, according to the Street Vendor Project.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 6:08 pm I get fund raising crap from both Democratic and Republican causes, it all gets automatically shoved into spam without regard to the political party.

Estiveo wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 8:29 pm Well deserved. This guy's been in everything.




[Chris Trager voice]Literally everything,[/CTv]

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raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue May 10, 2022 6:08 pm I get fund raising crap from both Democratic and Republican causes, it all gets automatically shoved into spam without regard to the political party.

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