{"id":238733,"date":"2026-07-08T21:19:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238733\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:19:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:19:23","slug":"lackawanna-college-finalizes-merger-with-pierce-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/238733\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna College finalizes merger with Pierce College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lackawanna College is announcing its official merger with Pierce College, based in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Lackawanna College says it has received final approval to merge with another school based in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The school announced its plans in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Lackawanna College leaders say the merger with Pierce College is complete. It&#8217;s now the largest open-enrollment private nonprofit institution in the state, with more than 8,000 students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lackawanna College is announcing its official merger with Pierce College, based in Philadelphia. SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Lackawanna College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-238733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}