MY VISIT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. Inside Higher Ed reports on a Presidential Ouster at Quincy.

Quincy University, a Roman Catholic liberal arts institution in Illinois, has dismissed its president, who had seen the enrollment drop steadily during her term.

The total head count at Quincy slipped to 1,250 this fall from more than 1,350 a year ago. Over the past two years, freshman enrollment has gone down by about 30 percent. Tuition is $18,450, but with a full-time undergraduate population of only 863 students, almost all of whom receive some financial aid, drops in enrollment can have a major impact on the college.

It's rather difficult for a religious college to exile its president to a convent. On the other hand, Sister Margaret M. Feldner might have something in common with Larry Summers.

The Quincy Herald-Whig reported that faculty returned a no-confidence vote this fall for Feldner and the head of admissions, who was placed on administrative leave with pay earlier this month. Yates said he is unaware of the vote, and the Faculty Senate chair didn’t return calls for comment.

For $18K, one can buy a spot at Marquette or DePaul, where there's a shot at seeing a decent basketball team, or one can go out of state to a flagship university going after the Coastie trade. Is Quincy's admissions trouble evidence of excess capacity in the obscure parts of higher education?

Rest assured, when I go train riding, it's not as traveling hatchet man for small-college trustees.