Posted on 08/30/2017 7:12:43 AM PDT by C19fan
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
“Administrators remain baffled...”
They’re facing the same problem that is killing the University of Missouri. That’s a “you” problem, to quote FOX Sports Radio’s Colin Cowherd.
Right - stupid is as stupid does.
Our present government supported “higher education” debt bubble is supporting many many thousands of left-wing professors and administrators, at colleges just like this one.
The bubble should be popped
Kill the Dept of Education, stop putting massive debt on to students for political indoctrination.
Evergreen “College” has been a moon bat stronghold going back decades. Nothing new here. Berkeley without the academic rigor, basically.
If you go and read through the whole landscape...this five-percent number lost in the fall enrollment at Evergreen wasn’t a big deal until they said that most all of the five-percent...were OUT-OF-STATE kids. They were the stupid ones paying 24,148 each. In-state kids were paying 6,678 each.
So the two-hundred kids missing from the fall campus....were paying 3.6-million dollars into the money bucket. Pretty substantial amount of money.
The senior lecture people will survive, but they are heavy cost item to the campus. If they’d let ten of them go...they could have kept fifteen to twenty of the lesser-tenured people.
But here’s the big deal about the math. Let’s say into the fall of 2018...that another 200 out-of-state kids don’t show up, and this stays as a permanent trend? You can figure at least 150 more people let go in August of 2018. It’s not really over....it just goes into the next round of budget shortfalls.
The “embattled” school. If they’re battling anything, it’s a consequence of their own arrogance.
Our son worked a summer at the golden arches when he was still in high school. He learned quickly why he needed to focus on studies and get a good education. It was a pretty amazing turnaround, actually.
And unfortunately, it's pretty damn hard to find college that DOESN'T try to do that. Then the little mush heads graduate with a degree in ethnic studies and $75000 in student dept. Oh yeah, don't forget, no job offers unless and no job offers unless you got your degree in a STEM (an acronym for “Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics”), major.
College is simply an over-rated, expensive waste of time in 2017. So screw college. Consider learning a valuable trade for a lot less money and a lot more income.
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That makes sense... as an out of stater, why should I pay $24,000 per year tuition when the illegal aliens are accepted as in-state residents and only pay $7,000 per year.
Duh... no wonder they are losing revenue!!!
This resembles affirmative action, which is actually reverse discrimination.
A ray of sunshine in an otherwise gloomy day. I’d like to see the whole place fold and the so-called professors find jobs suitable to their abilities - like riding along on the backs of garbage trucks or holding up cardboard signs at intersections saying “will work for food”
It’s rather telling that within about 2 semesters of lowered enrollment the school is that far in the hole. They should be audited, then shut down.
That is an excellent idea.
Higher education has become an embarassment to the nation. I wonder how foreign students feel about the nonsense? When the high paying Jap and Chinese parents stop shelling out six figures to these schools...
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‘Evergreen State College faces $2.1M budget shortfall, cites enrollment drop, issues layoff notices’
Perhaps the students should stage a riot and building take-over. It worked so well the last time.
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