Due to a drop in enrollment, financial difficulties and 3 fires[1] following the end of the military conscription draft in 1973, Kennedy College closed in 1975.

JFK openly awarded partial women's basketball scholarships, as that sport was governed by a non-collegiate organization, the AAU.

[5] The women's basketball team, winners of several AAU titles in 1972 and 1973, helped to further the diplomatic thaw in Sino-American relations in 1973 by representing the U.S. on a tour of games in the People's Republic of China, which was the subject of an article in Sports Illustrated.

The multi-faceted plan featured innovative teaching and administrative techniques, and emphasized the recruitment of a geographically and academically diverse student body.

In the 1960s, the schools were also attended by a substantial number of young men seeking draft deferments that would allow them to avoid military service during the Vietnam War.