TRACTORS WIN
Posted on 12/10/2019 8:42:53 AM PST by SeekAndFind
OLYMPIA — Freshman Wasmine Ghosheh said she noticed it in the dorms.
When the 19-year-old from Sonoma County, California, arrived at The Evergreen State College in September, she met students who were supposed to have roommates but ended up with their own rooms.
“There’s a lot of space — it’s spacious, let’s say,” Ghosheh said the Friday before Thanksgiving break in a nearly empty cafeteria on campus.
Evergreen’s enrollment this fall was 2,854 students, down more than 40% from its peak head count a decade ago. The decline, corresponding with an economic recovery and mirroring a trend in liberal arts enrollment nationally, was compounded by campus unrest two and a half years ago that made national headlines.
Since then, the college has tried new ways to attract and retain students and shore up its profile. Officials say they are seeing early signs of progress, but President George Bridges told trustees at a November board meeting the college this year will need a “laser focus” in these areas.
Put plainly, students mean tuition, and less tuition means budget cuts. The college’s net annual revenue has been in the red for five years, according to a June financial overview to trustees. In 2018-19, Evergreen looked to cut 10% from its operating budget. For this year, it cut another 5%.
The college plans its course offerings with a 22-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio, so as student numbers have fallen, so too have faculty numbers, said David McAvity, Evergreen’s dean for academic budgets. In just two years, the college has cut the equivalent of 34 full-time faculty positions, a 20% decrease.
Last school year, the college started offering retirement incentives to some tenured faculty. (Evergreen doesn’t use the term “tenured,” however, instead referring to them as faculty with a continuing contract.)
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Got my fingers crossed.......crash and go broke.
This makes me smile. Thanks.
Yeah. Well, Leftists have an unlimited capacity to run things into the ground, so there is always a chance!
Hope they all rot in Hell.
BOL!
“I hopefully anticipate the crash and burn of this next Star Wars release after the POS brainless actress had to come out and trash those who support Trump.”
Is that the whore United Airlines hired?
Shrinking? Must be climate change.
More shrinkage! Global warming again!
Get woke go broke.
Rachel Corrie aka, Saint Pancake.
Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of pricks...
ESAD.
There is a bureaucratic rule that when cutbacks come, you “cut the meat and leave the fat.”
In this case, it would mean to eliminate the better, more expert faculty focused on teaching their subjects, while retaining the deadwood and parasites who indoctrinate with crap and wallow in worthless dialectic.
They will retain the most radical Leftists on the payroll, until the endowment is all gone.
I thought this was a joke. It is a dove impaled on a pyramid in a glass case.
Who in their wildest mind thought that was a good idea for a memorial?
TRACTORS WIN
I suggest turning the campus into a planned village for the homeless. This will improve the visual appearance of the student body too
This "school" is a major supplier of State of WA employees. I can not see the capital area departments cut off their suppliy of useful idiots.
Why would any parent pay to send their children and hard earned cash to this institution?
Imagine trying to get a job interview for anything other than community organizer or diversity coordinator with Evergreen on your resume?
The school has worked very hard and succeeded at making the degrees they grant worthless.
My daughter is a high school senior this year. We got a few mailers from Evergreen in a desperate attempt to increase enrollment. I laughed and threw them in the ignore box.
Evergreen continues to FAIL.
Thanksgiving break? Thanksgiving? That doesn’t sound like Evergreen College. If the students were truly given a break for Thanksgiving, mightn’t this show that Evergreen, by its own calculus, is celebrating genocide?
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