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Kathianne
08-31-2017, 12:35 AM
that 'potential students' don't make all the decisions? That mostly it's parents and their money make the final choice or at least the final veto? Seriously University of Missouri is still suffering for their choices of quite a few years ago and now it seems that Evergreen is meeting the same fate?

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36145/


Evergreen State College faces $2.1M budget shortfall, cites enrollment drop, issues layoff notices

Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the embattled school faces a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall due in part to a drop in enrollment, and the institution has already handed out some temporary layoff notices as officials grapple with balancing the books.

In an Aug. 28 memo to the campus community titled “Enrollment and Budget Update,” officials report that fall 2017-18 registration is down about 5 percent, from 3,922 students to 3,713. But the problem is nearly all of the students they lost are nonresidents, who traditionally pay a much higher tuition to attend, officials explained in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.

Combined with a shortfall in funding from state coffers to shoulder a mandatory cost-of-living salary increase and a rise in the general cost of operations, and the school must find a way to resolve a $2.1 million shortfall for the fiscal year that began July 1, according to the memo.
“This creates the need for significant budget cuts in the immediate future,” the memo states, adding that the university late last month already handed out temporary layoff notices to 17 facilities staff members.

“Some notices were rescinded as we try to use scarce local dollars to keep people employed,” the memo states. “… However, if the capital budget crisis at the state level continues indefinitely, layoffs will become impossible to avoid.”

“… In a college where 89 percent of the operating budget is in salaries and benefits, it is impossible to reduce the budget by substantial amounts without giving up positions. In anticipation of this, we will soon be announcing a hiring freeze.” (ed. this is another problem for another thread, but is noteworthy).

Although the memo does not reference it, the drop in student enrollment can likely be traced back to the national uproar caused after a rowdy group of progressive students took over the school in May and June.

First they cornered white biology Professor Bret Weinstein and shouted him down (https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32803/) over his choice not leave campus during a “Day of Absence,” in which white students and employees were asked to stay off campus for the day. The aggressive actions against the professor forced him to hold class off campus at a nearby park.

Next, students accused the university’s administration of racism during a contentious meeting, during which they yelled at and belittled President George Bridges. At this meeting, some white students were told (https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35031/) to stand in the back of the room because of the color of their skin. The progressive student protesters also issued a string of demands to combat the alleged racism on campus, most of which the university agreed (https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32822/) to implement at an unknown fiscal cost.

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The college was also shut for multiple days in early June because of threats it received. Student vigilantes even took to patrolling campus (https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/33027/) with bats. Later reports about the school revealed that radicalism and anarchy had been pushed (https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/33124/) at Evergreen State College since at least 2008.
Emails obtained (https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/34237/) by The College Fix show that some parents pledged to keep their kids away from Evergreen in a development that’s known as the “Mizzou Effect.” The term references (https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/32614/) the situation at the University of Missouri, which faced severe financial struggles after a student Black Lives Matter protest in 2014 took over the campus and ruined the school’s reputation, prompting a huge decline in enrollment.

But in a somewhat tone deaf part of the Aug. 28 memo from Evergreen, administrators state that “we must continue our efforts to make Evergreen a student-ready college. Our work in equity and inclusion is an important step in this process.”

michiganFats
08-31-2017, 01:09 PM
that 'potential students' don't make all the decisions? That mostly it's parents and their money make the final choice or at least the final veto? Seriously University of Missouri is still suffering for their choices of quite a few years ago and now it seems that Evergreen is meeting the same fate?

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36145/


The article got it right. The drop in enrollment is due to the bad publicity.

aboutime
08-31-2017, 01:56 PM
When the college administrators, and professors lay down with Liberally Driven Pigs. They suffer the consequences of BAD PORK that gives everyone under the college's liberal guidance....Trichinosis that destroys the brain, and ability to be responsible.


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Kathianne
09-02-2017, 07:17 PM
The following article gets some right and some wrong, though the conclusion comes out on the correct site.

This issues of free speech, free association, and exposure to differing opinions on college campuses is not new. Even the attempts at intimidation are not new, but the way that schools are reacting brings the maturity of thought of administrators and staff into question.

In both cases cited, the administrators did choose wrong, but only because they were playing to their ideologies, not what was best for the university or the students. They didn't 'cave' to the instigators so much as agree with them.

Shockingly most people today over the age of 40 or so still believe that a large part of a university education includes diversity of experiences, but more so exposure to diversity of thought. Students should be expected to hear differing ideas, learn to clarify and defend their own opinions. This is true not only in the liberal arts, but the 'hard' sciences too. You don't have to agree with all you hear or read, but you should be able to explain why, not melt down because others disagree.

If instead, the university believes there is only 'one right way' to approach a topic, they are not doing their jobs. Again, this has to do not only with academics but what organizations their student body may choose to belong to or form.

What cannot be allowed are students, (not to mention faculty as happened at both the colleges mentioned in the article), acting in ways to suppress the opinions of others and/or use physical intimidation to do so.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/01/colleges-struggle-over-defending-or-curbing-free-speech.html


Colleges struggle over defending or curbing free speech

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Both the University of Missouri and Evergreen State College have been rocked by left-wing demonstrations, some of which administrators in both schools allowed. Now both have had to deal with falling enrollment and a decline in funds - and there are fears the situation could spread to other schools.

The defining issue is whether parents and donors see administrators as capable of containing clashes and responding firmly when protests get out of control, experts say.

Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonprofit that advocates for a variety of higher education issues, told Fox News that how a college handles freedom of expression matters greatly to prospective students, their parents and donors.

“When they look to what college to pick, parents and students are thinking of the largest investment their family is likely to make beyond the purchase of a home,” Pfeffer Merrill said. “Across the political spectrum, one of the most essential assets is [the opportunity] to be exposed to a wide range of views.”



There is increasing concern, she said, “about a lack of openness to having a full conversation” amid a growing intolerance of views that are different or considered offensive.

“It’s senior leadership at the colleges that sets the tone,” she said.

At Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., last year left-wing students called for a day for whites to stay off campus. But a professor -- well known as a progressive -- publicly criticized the move. The response was threats and physical intimidation by students. Administrators decided to suspend classes for several days.

As at Missouri, the school administrators were assailed for allowing a group of overzealous students to call the shots.

Now Evergreen State has experienced a decline in enrollment that has resulted in a $2.1 million budget shortfall, forcing the liberal arts school to announce layoffs. The blow to the school’s enrollment and finances is seen as stemming, at least in part, from the showdown.

In 2015, the University of Missouri’s main campus, which is in Columbia, experienced escalating tensions over allegations of racism at the school – and protests became violent. Several administrators acceded to demonstrators’ demands that they resign.

School officials were widely criticized for not gaining control over the protests, which grew in size and tension, even resulting in some demonstrators lashing out at reporters who were trying to cover their message.

Since then, freshman enrollment has plunged by 35 percent, and donations to the athletic department have dropped 72 percent over the year before, according to published reports.

The University of Missouri had to temporarily close seven dormitories – renting them out for special events, such as homecoming games – and planned to cut 400 jobs.

“The general consensus was that [declining enrollment] was because of the aftermath of what happened in November 2015,” the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/university-of-missouri-enrollment-protests-fallout.html) quoted Mun Choi, the new system president, as saying. “There were students from both in the state and out of state that just did not apply, or those who did apply but decided not to attend.”

If left-wing groups continue making demands and administrators acquiesce to them, other schools may suffer the same fate as Missouri and Evergreen, according to one expert.

“I don’t think we have seen the full extent of the fallout at the University of Missouri,” Sterling Beard, editor of The Leadership Institute's Campus Reform, told Fox News. “Violence is coming from Antifa groups on campus. Now they control administrators and shut out competing ideas they disagree with or don’t like.”

Beard said Missouri’s protests spread to other colleges, but they did not spiral out of control.

“The lesson is that administrators have to treat their students like the adults that they are,” he said. “Nowadays they treat students with kid gloves.”

When students cross the line from expressing a view or demonstrating for a cause to disrupting education or making people feel unsafe on campus, it’s time for administrators to lay down boundaries, Beard said.

“They must not be afraid to expel students and lay down the law.”

One school that has resisted the kinds of demands Missouri and Evergreen gave in to is the University of Chicago.

In the summer of 2016 incoming freshmen at the University of Chicago received a welcome letter (https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/08/25/u-chicago-warns-incoming-students-not-expect-safe-spaces-or-trigger-warnings) that made the institution’s commitment to the free and open expression of ideas clear:


“Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.”