… has anyone even heard of this place [Fisher More]? …
I have. In the not-distant past I had very extensive contact with Doctor James A. Patrick, the gentleman who founded the college (and was its Chancellor) in its first incarnation: the College of Saint Thomas More. Dr. Patrick is a man of deep cultivation and a scholar with a truly extraordinary breadth of learning. He is a serious Catholic, of course, albeit sadly of the devout Novus Ordo type (he merits our prayers, needless to say).
Dr. Patrick is not affiliated with Fisher More in any way. What the state of his relations with the folks who run it is not something I know nor am in a position to inquire about. You may have noticed that the present management is more than a bit coy in referring to him in the material they provided Rorate Caeli. Should you come to decide that going to FM is what you
really want to do, you might consider writing them and asking plainly what the story is.
… It would stink if they closed, Fisher More seems to be a great (if not the best) option for people like us.
I am curious what you mean by "people like us." In common with everyone who thought about higher education prior to the day before yesterday, both Dr. Patrick and the current management hold that a true liberal education, founded in the classics of Greco-Roman literature and thought and expanding to include their genuine successors in the Christian era down almost to our own time, is appropriate only for the few: specifically, (1) those who aspire to a life in the academy or in those trades and professions that depend upon or nourish that life; and (2) those with the native gifts and aptitudes and practical conditions of upbringing to make such aspirations realizable in more than fantasy.
To speak plainly, few who comment here at CI can be counted as "people like us" so defined. Nor is there anything to be ashamed of or to apologize for in that situation.
Incidentally, with the foregoing in mind, ggreg is absolutely correct to discourage idle fantasies about studying the liberal arts in preference to the hard sciences or engineering or chartered accounting. Fewer people are suited by nature for such liberal studies than are suited for football or basketball stardom. In fact, perhaps the only thing rarer than a natural-born scholar is a southpaw with a great slider and curveball and a killer split-finger. If you are one of the latter, the world is your oyster. Make a hundred million bucks, and
then spend the next forty years reading Xenophon and Sophocles and Tacitus and the Italian Renaissance scholars and preparing a series of learned studies for a new generation of translators on the differing vocabularies and linguistic structures of Cicero's Latin vis-à-vis that of Boethius or Anselm.