Posted on 09/12/2018 1:14:26 PM PDT by Hadean
Evergreen State College enrollment plummeted after fallout from the controversial “Day of Absence” in May 2017 when all white people were asked to leave the campus.
The publicly funded college – committed to social justice – became the poster child of a campus overrun by hyper-political correctness when students shut down the campus and shouted down then-evolutionary biology professor Bret Weinstein for merely questioning the event kicking white people off campus.
Weinstein, who describes himself as “deeply progressive,” ultimately lost his job and was labeled a “racist” and “white supremacist.”
Although just estimates, a representative from Evergreen said they expect around 350 freshman this fall, with a total of 3,000-3,100 total enrollment, both of which “do represent significant decreases as compared to before the 2017 unrest.”
“It’s a catastrophic drop, but I’m hoping we’ll recover,” Evergreen Professor Mike Paros told Fox News. “Advocacy and activism rather than the pursuit of truth and knowledge is being promoted as a way of recruiting desperately needed new students,” Paros wrote. “Bringing in new faculty or guest speakers with conservative or centrist political perspectives is considered risky and out of the question at the moment. Fear and self-censorship is pervasive among Evergreen faculty, especially under the existing budget crisis.”
Paros is the only remaining Evergreen educator on Heterodox Academy, an advocacy group of professors to counteract narrowing of viewpoints on college campuses, and the practicing veterinarian who teaches biological and environmental sciences is offering a new class this fall to help change that.
The class is called “Liberal Education in the College Bubble: Crossing the Political and Cultural Divide.”
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Paros’ course description includes a trigger warning: “Students who require ‘ideological safe spaces’ where particular viewpoints are considered offensive may want to seek a different program.”
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The market, which apparently no one going to Ever Green believes in, at work.....
Couldn’t happen to a more fitting corrupt college/university.
Stunning to me that 350 freshmen are there this year.
Using what would no doubt pass for ‘feelings’ based math at EU, I suspect that number was rounded up from about 58.
That’s for sure.
Cue Seinfeld “That’s a shame” pic.
I bet Hillsdale College doesn’t have enrollment problems.
Neither does Harvard.
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Does ‘catastrophic drop’ have some new meaning about which I am unaware.
A must have class for every STEM graduate......../s
They should have put the quietus on this nonsense back in the 1960s. I still get a thrill remembering the Hippie front tooth attacking the mafia enforcer’s brass knuckles in his L’L Abner S.W.I.N.E. episode (Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything).
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