Posted on 05/23/2018 5:24:53 AM PDT by C19fan
Last week I wrote about Evergreen State College’s decline in enrollment which is expected to blow a $5.9 million hole in the schools budget for the coming year. A memo outlining the school’s response said some vacancies would remain unfilled and a number of layoffs would be necessary. Today, a piece published by the Wall Street Journal reveals some additional detail on what is coming for Evergreen, including a lawsuit which will be filed this week:
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
Evergreen State College 2017 Enrollment... 3907 students... 58% female, 42% male...
(Was 42-58 in 1971... 50-50 in 1976... and 56-44 by 1988, and ever since.)
Consistently around 10% non-white from 1971 until 1990, climbed slowly to 20% by 2010... and has since shot up to 30% in the last 7 years...
The Evergreen campus is 12% black/mixed, 11% Hispanic, and 3% Asian.
Olympia (home to ESC) is 2% black, 7% Hispanic, and 7% Asian...
Washington State itself is 3% black, 11% Hispanic, and 7% Asian.
Local Whites and Asians need not apply, apparently.
85% of ESC students from WA, 5% from OR, 5% from CA, 1% each from IL, MN, CO and TX... the remaining 1% from the rest of the country.
Total enrollment was around 4300-4500 from 2000 until 2008, shot up to 4881 in 2009, and has declined ever since, down to 3907 in 2017. Today's WSJ says this year's enrollment will be 500-600 fewer than 2017. From 5000 in 2009 to 3000.... a 40% loss... in just 9 years.
ESC's motto is literally “let it all hang out”—omnia extares.
"In 2017, Evergreen received wide attention with protests against professor Bret Weinstein, which eventually ended with him leaving the college and getting $500,000 in compensation." - Wikipedia
Lunatics. Must lead to great jobs.
(Quotes from the WSJ article cited in the original post)
I have mentioned that before. There are a surprising # of government and quasi government organization that hire a lot of graduates from these colleges. Unless it is a defined skill set: accounting, engineering, chemistry, etc., they just need a degree from a 4 year college.
So there are tons of process jobs, out-reach jobs, supervisory jobs, which hire these grads.
Just here in Seattle, we have city of seattle, king county, various housing agencies, various community health, transport coordination, community centers, improvement districts etc.
Extreme example - We have light rail going up to north Seattle (Northgate). I ran in 2 folks that were liaisons to rental groups, businesses. They were half joking that their job was 2 meetings a day (usually at Starbucks) and then head home to write it up. Their work days were basically 5 hr for most of the year.
That’s already true.
“I have mentioned that before. There are a surprising # of government and quasi government organization that hire a lot of graduates from these colleges. Unless it is a defined skill set: accounting, engineering, chemistry, etc., they just need a degree from a 4 year college.”
They assume that a 4-year degree weeds out the real losers and pretty much guarantees that you can read. A lot of these jobs are almost all OJT so that’s sufficient.
This is a state college....isn’t anyone in the Legislature noticing the financial failure and plummeting enrollment? Evergreen has become like the Lord of the Flies of academia
“isn’t anyone in the Legislature noticing the financial failure and plummeting enrollmetn”
The WA State legislature always gives what every money the universities want because any other vote would be attacked as “anti education.”
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