Businessman to fund small Christian college in Boston
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A Boston-area businessman is planning to open a new four-year college in the city with a focus on conservative Christian values.
Investment fund manager Finny Kuruvilla tells The Boston Globe he plans to fund Sattler College with $30 million of his own money.
He hopes to eventually enroll about 300 students in the liberal arts school, with tuition of only $9,000 a year — a fraction of what most private colleges charge. The school would operate out of an office building with no student housing.
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Kuruvilla says the school's stated mission will be to "prepare students to serve Christ, the church, and the world."
Kuruvilla earned a medical degree and PhD from Harvard University and preaches at Followers of the Way, a small church in Medford, a Boston suburb.