their time in the GNAC, winning just one championship (baseball in 1996). However, in the NECC with its smaller colleges, Daniel Webster won championships in baseball, men's cross country, field hockey, women's basketball, women's volleyball, and men's soccer. It also saw a significant increase in both all-conference and major conference award winners. SNHU did not acquire the Daniel Webster athletic programs. Disposition SNHU tried to buy the Nashua campus, but its bids were rejected and SNHU instead opted to build a new engineering building of its own by 2019. SNHU purchased DWC's flight center, tower building, and hangar at Nashua Airport for $400,000. Chinese businessman Sui Liu, doing business as Xinhua Education Consulting Services, acquired the remainder of the campus and buildings for close to $12 million in mid-2018. Representatives of the company petitioned the New Hampshire Higher Education Commission to continue using the Daniel Webster name, but the Commission rejected two petitions, citing dispute over the ownership of the name. As of early 2019, there were no signs of any development of the property. In mid-2019, the mayor of Nashua said the owners thought they were buying an operating campus and not just real estate. In 2019, Rivier University got Liu's permission to make the overgrown baseball field playable again and opened its baseball season there. References Defunct private universities and colleges in New Hampshire Former for-profit universities and colleges in the United States Air traffic controller schools Aviation schools in the United States Educational institutions established in 1965 Universities and colleges in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Buildings and structures in Nashua, New Hampshire 1965 establishments in New Hampshire Educational institutions disestablished in 2017 2017 disestablishments in the United States