Unity Environmental University

The college received an unprecedented $10 million gift in 2011 and its endowment has since grown to $18 million. Unity began offering online education in 2016 with its first master's degree, in Professional Science. It began offering undergraduate online programs two years later. In 2020, Unity College closed its Unity campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. During the pandemic-related closure, the college announced it would pivot away from a traditional residential model and would consider selling its campus. The proposed sale of the Unity, Maine campus and pivot towards distance education frustrated alumni and some faculty, who accused the school of drifting from its environmental mission. In 2021, President Melik Peter Khoury told the Morning Sentinel that the campus was "never listed for sale" and that it would reopen for the fall term, though two years later it was offered for sale as the school continued its shift towards online education and in-person education in New Gloucester and other …