Noted: Milwaukee-Downer College and Lawrence College announced they would combine their two institutions in 1964, thereby creating what is now Lawrence University. Milwaukee-Downer’s campus developed in Milwaukee in 1895 after the merger of Milwaukee College and Downer College. In the 1964 merger, the Milwaukee campus was sold to the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and students, faculty members and curriculum were transferred to the Lawrence College campus in Appleton, Wis. The combination of these institutions was precipitated by declining enrollment and growing budget deficits at Milwaukee-Downer College — a familiar impetus for merger talks today.
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