Posted on 07/10/2017 11:05:02 AM PDT by Lorianne
The 2015 protests that rocked the University of Missouri campus and eventually led to the ouster of the school’s president “has been a disaster for the university.” That’s the conclusion of the NY Times which published a story yesterday on declining enrollment at Mizzou.
Before the protests, the university, fondly known as Mizzou, was experiencing steady growth and building new dormitories. Now, with budget cuts due to lost tuition and a decline in state funding, the university is temporarily closing seven dormitories and cutting more than 400 positions, including those of some nontenured faculty members, through layoffs and by leaving open jobs unfilled…Tyler Morris, a white student from St. Louis, said he was afraid of being stereotyped as a bigot if he went to Missouri. So he decided to go to Missouri Valley College, “just down the road” in Marshall.
“The discrimination wasn’t against white people, but I didn’t want to be that person who I guess was stereotyped because I was white,” he said.
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I'm guessing ONE MORE VIOLENT PROTEST AT BERKELEY and it'll be over for them too.
Supply exceeded demand.
Homeless and displaced from Ferguson should be relocated to the empty dorms on campus....
Were you there when Dick or Tim Jamieson worked as a coach?
One snowflake out of the student body. They should have asked my (Mizzou student) cousin what is going on there - she would have said that enrollment is down because the Univ President and others caved into a minority of troublemakers and outsiders who came to the campus specifically to exaggerate the one incident, knowing that the national media would give them all the exposure they needed. Who the hell wants to go to a school like that?
So... the New York Times sees that embracing hardcore
leftist positions hurt this University’s bottom line by
driving away those that don’t agree. Is it possible that
they don’t see that they are essentially describing themselves?
Gotta love it....”a school best known for a hair-trigger protest culture lacking any adult control.”
Was there just one semester, then headed to Oregon: frying pan/fire. But I met a great wife...
Well,gee...that’s too bad. Or maybe not.
King had a dream and libtards made it a nightmare. He would be disgusted.
As an alumnus of an ultra-leftie U.C. campus (I decline to use the “alma mater” honorific) I’m pleased to report that I have donated zero to the school since obtaining degrees, and they have even stopped sending me junk correspondence begging for money.
Mr. RR and I are both Mizzou alumni. We did give our rather sizable donation this year, nor will next year unless we see significant changes.
Start with the gender studies department, women's studies and cultural diversity department.
correction......did NOT give.
I wasn’t the protests that make Mizzou look bad, it was the administrations response placating the protesters and accepting the claim that the university was full of racists and bigots. The administration cannot see past their academic bubble that sees everything through the prism of minority victimhood. Most of the students are from the state and most of the state is white and who wants to go to a school where the leadership will make you into a punching bag for a bunch of malcontents?
As a Mizzou grad I hope they get new people in charge that can lead an academic renaissance the expels all the victimhood hustlers and starts to genuinely educate students again. Mizzou’s problems are more visible but not unique to Mizzou. Virtually all of US universities have are infected with the same lines of thinking.
You gave them money?
Pretty interesting indeed. Some of these kids are opting for schools with I assume much lesser general academic reputations.
That my FRiend, is Shakespearian!
No. That's not what you need to do. Send them a dollar. It will cost them more than a dollar to process it, and keeps them spending money on junk mail.
not this year, nor next year.....see my last post. I corrected it.
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