https://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/18/e...n-layoffs/

Evergreen State College plans to cut its budget by $5.9 million next year, which amounts to 10% of the schools total budget, in anticipation of declining enrollment. From the Olympian:

In a memo to the college’s board of trustees, Evergreen President George Bridges wrote that cuts totaling $5.9 million are needed because of lower-than-expected tuition revenue. This will require “some” layoffs and eliminating “many positions that are currently vacant,” according to Bridges.
“The work of reducing the operating budget is in a very dynamic state at this time. The number of staff and faculty positions and programs impacted by the proposed reductions will change as this work continues over the next few weeks,” according to the memo dated May 8.
As dramatic as this sounds, enrollment next year could drop much more than 10 percent. In February, President Bridges warned next year’s enrollment could drop by up to 700 students from a student body of 3,800. That would represent a decline of 18.5 percent. Bridges framed that as worst-case-scenario but clearly, a 10% decline, while well shy of the worst case, is still very significant.

A lot of first- and second-tier colleges/universities are not going to survive. For third-rate (and worse) entities like Evergreen State, the odds of long-term survival are truly bleak.

I feel sorry for all the laid off Liberal professors but guess what (Juan Williams favorite expression) at least Don the Trump's policies now make it possible for these profs to find another job. Maybe one where they'll get some physical exercise.

My question is will Synchronized Underwater Basket Weaving course still be taught?

Quote:One year ago, members of the Evergreen State College community asked white people to leave the campus in a “day of absence.” Those who refused to give into such demands sparked uncontrollable outrage from event planners and a chain of events led to mass chaos, national media coverage, and the exit of a few faculty and staff.

You’ll remember students stormed a faculty meeting, disrupted classes, roamed the campus with baseball bats, blocked students and staff from leaving the library, and successfully demanded that campus police give up their guns.

Eventually, the chief of police resigned, explaining that she had been given all of the responsibility, but none of the authority to keep people safe on campus. Professors Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying, who were endlessly stalked and harassed, resigned from their tenured positions and sued the school. At least four others followed.

“Grief takes many forms, and we feel it, but we also feel that we were paid to leave a burning building. Unfortunately, we can do nothing for our many friends — students, staff, and faculty — still stuck on the inside,” they explained in a piece for the Washington Examiner.

One year later, Evergreen’s enrollment is projected to be down 20 percent and a nearly $6 million budget cut is required because of it. The same administrators who capitulated to the race-focused protesters are now in full damage control mode, which is quite different than restoring the campus back to an institution of plural opinion and idea exploration.

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Perhaps they can recruit the Berns lovely wifey to come save that place too.

It did a bang-up job at the last joint.

How unfortunate for them.

Just about every "course" offered there is worthless.

Maybe evergreen can merge with mizzou. Lol

Academic Darwinism at its very best.

I thought they were already known for being a home for extremely left kids.