Academically, we offer only four major studies now: diversity, sustainability, inclusiveness, and community outreach.
We have hired several diversity administrators, installed quotas for non-traditional students and faculty, and established a special hate crime investigative committee.
So far, no anti-Israel policies, but that can't be far off.
Our endowment is over $700 million, so we have a few years of breathing room, but the end of the college as we once knew it may soon be a reality.
Leading Crisis Indicator - alumni magazine correspondence from graduating classes before 1990 has dropped almost to ZERO, and I assume donations from my age group have completely tanked.
Our woke female college president has implemented significant spending cuts, and her last email gave off the first faint signal of anxious concern.
Yes it has. Half the colleges that do not open this fall, will never open. Maybe ten percent of those who open only online will not reopen next year. All those expensive school buildings and staff will drag down small private colleges. While online for profit colleges that have little to no campus will surge in popularity because they will have better online line infrastructure, and lower expenses.
We need to do what some of the Scandinavian countries have done. Sure you’ll get government assistance to get your college degree.....but ONLY if you study economically useful things like Math, Science, Engineering, Business, Finance, Accounting, Tech, Medicine, etc etc.
“Oh what’s that? You want to major in womyn’s studies or African studies or Sociology or Philosophy? Gosh, I hope you’ve got the money to pay for that because you’re not getting a nickel of public assistance/loans for it.”
They’re cutting sports. They need to cut bureaucracy.