Posted on 02/17/2018 8:57:07 AM PST by blam
The President of Evergreen State College announced this week that the college is predicting a 20 percent drop in enrollment for the upcoming fall semester. Evergreen president George Bridges announced this week that the college is facing a 20 percent drop in enrollment for the upcoming fall semester. The school currently boasts a student body of 3,800, but with the graduation of the current class of seniors this spring and the introduction of a smaller freshman class this fall, the total student body will drop to 3,100 students. The college was also hit with a five percent drop in enrollment at the start of the 2017-2018 academic year.
The drop in enrollment is attributed to the chaos that took place last spring when former Evergreen biology professor Bret Weinstein was forced off campus for disagreeing with an activism event that asked white community members to leave campus for a day of absence. In protest of Weinsteins stance, students roamed the campus with baseball bats, aiming to intimidate anyone who dared to disagree with Evergreens progressive orthodoxy.
Former Evergreen provost Michael Zimmerman addressed the current enrollment issues at the college in a conversation with The College Fix.
The enrollment crisis at Evergreen, and make no mistake about it, it is a crisis, will not be fixed until the actions of last spring are acknowledged and their underlying causes addressed, Zimmerman said. To pretend that students fleeing Evergreen is simply a function of the economy or because of bad press generated by the far right is both misleading and counter-productive.
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He just doesn’t get it.
Dropping enrollment is happening to the entire student body.
Parents are horrified and pulling their kids out because:
Racial violence.
Teachers are quitting and suing because of harassment.
Activist teachers are getting students involved in protests in Olympia that have turned violent.
There is a significant number of violent anarchists that have moved to Olympia and are recruiting students.
Campus security is extremely timid and have allowed non-student drug dealers to move into occupied dorm rooms.
Campus security admits that it won’t go into some of the dorms without Thurston County officers with them.
Hard drug use is rampant and an open fact.
Finally, Evergreen does not give grades and students have a very hard time getting jobs.
Parents and students and the entire community have had enough.
“My question is if what happened in Evergreen and Mizzou really unique, or just that they got caught?”
My gut feeling is that Evergreen College was doing what a lot of other colleges and universities are doing but they took it to a higher level.
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