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Evergreen State College Wakes Up to the Costs of Wokeness
Extracurricular activities at Evergreen State College.
It’s been two years since violent racial unrest crippled the University of Missouri. The school’s decision to coddle the mob resulted in freshmen enrollment dropping by more than 35 percent, the elimination of 400 positions, and the closing of seven dorms. The 2017 enrollment drop lost the school $16.6 million, while a disgusted state government punished the campus with another $15 million in cuts.
Following this summer’s angry protests at the much smaller Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA, that school is also facing the “Mizzou Effect.” The College Fix has the deets:
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.
Universities might praise Marxist economic theory, but they’re waking up to how the real world operates. Even the most progressive upper-middle-class parents won’t send tens of thousands of dollars to schools that won’t prepare their kids for adulthood — or even provide physical safety.
The free market works, even among the woke.
Published in Economics, Education
In the fall of 2007, my high school senior son sent an email to Missouri (our home state at the time) to a couple of professors in the history department. As a soon to be history major, he wanted to ensure that the department would let him focus on specific areas of history among other department related questions. The meager response he received was from a grad student. Apparently replying to an interested student was too hard for a professor. However, the response he received painted a bleak picture of what his time would be like in the history department at MU. Bottom line, we don’t want you here…especially if you are interested in military history.
With that in mind, he never applied to MU. Instead he received a wonderful scholarship from Kansas State University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He was a serious history student and he received a serious education there. Missouri deserves every bit of what they have brought upon themselves. They overbuilt and spent too much time catering to those who weren’t there for a real education.
By the way, Kansas State just received a top rating from FIRE. Way to go KSU!
EMAW!