But probably not...
Posted on 09/13/2017 6:51:13 AM PDT by rktman
Yet another American college is suffering an “unexpected” plunge in enrollment and a massive budget deficit after a series of outbursts by radical fringe protesters and professors.
This time, the school is Oberlin College, a private, 2,900-student enclave of progressivism in small-town Ohio where the cost for a single year of tuition, fees and room and board is $69,372.
Oberlin is facing a $5 million budget shortfall for the 2017–2018 academic year due to lower student enrollment and a related drop in revenue, reports The Oberlin Review, the student newspaper.
The chairman of Oberlin’s board of trustees, Chris Canavan, announced the financial woes in an email sent to professors and administrators this summer. The student newspaper obtained and published the full email late last week.
“As many of you already know, Oberlin’s primary source of revenue, student charges, will fall well short of our target because the incoming class is smaller than we expected and fewer students will return next year,” Canavan wrote. “There is no avoiding the financial impact of these shortfalls. Although we had already reduced budgets across the institution for next year, this shortfall in student charges will generate a deficit of about $5 million.”
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Pah, amateurs!
Antioch College in OH did it first, and did it best. Having to shut down the campus for an entire year, and their staff and faculty DEMANDING that they still get paid from non-existent funds...
They should hire Jane Sanders (Bernie’s wife) to help turn their finances around.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/10/us/jane-sanders-vermont-burlington-college-investigation.html
Hilarious. Needs to happen to every progressive indoctrination enclave.
all the SJW colleges are experiencing drop in applicants.
thank you free market
More winning.
IIRC, Oberlin has been moving this direction since the 1960’s - proof that rewarding a given behavior will generate more of it.
Lena Dunham went to Oberlin.
That alone speaks volumes about the college.
And while I hate to link to Wikipedia, they have a good listing of other Oberlin alumni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oberlin_College_and_Conservatory_people#Notable_alumni
You’ll find yourself grimacing at least a few times as you read thru the list.
Online university is the wave of the future.
Reminds me of fifty years ago when Al Capp’s LI’L ABNER had the hippie S.W.I.N.E (Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything)forced their university administration to cow down. So the University sold out to the MAFIA.
Here came the S.W.I.N.E!
I still get t thrill remembering the moment the Hippie swine attacked the mob enforcer’s brass knuckles with their front teeth.
Well, you could close the:
Africana Studies
Book Studies
East Asian Studies
Dance and
Gender, Sex and Feminist Studies
programs for a start.
But probably not...
LOL! Prosecution? Nah. Quickly Jeeves, back to the lake house.
I heard this line - Any College Major that ends in the word “Studies” is a waste of time and money
Half of the colleges and universities in the country could close and America would be better off for it.
This is coming from a guy with a master’s in public admin, by the way. Wish there was some way I could sell it, for all the good it’s done me. At least it made my parents happy and that counts for a lot.
I’d close all the Ivies, keep all the land grant universities.
Left-wing snowflakes love to make fun of the cows grazing on the VPI and NCSU campuses. I say cows are beautiful and a sign that serious education about agriculture is taking place on that campus — and nothing is more important than the food we eat.
Also, the cows are generally prettier and more personable than left-wing women.
Yup. Probably not. Unless...............
Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented.
- Mark Twain in Eruption
The more of these communist leaning institutions go under the better. Maybe the ones left will stop with the stupidity!!!
My dentist says any “study” is a bunch of lies paid for by whomever paid for the study.
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