Posted on 06/20/2024 7:03:33 AM PDT by george76
The college is partly blaming the declining numbers on negative press from the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and arrests..
Following an enrollment decline, Emerson College, in an email sent to faculty and staff Tuesday, announced that it will lay off staff and not fill some vacant positions in fiscal year 2025, according to The Boston Globe.
The college is blaming the enrollment decline in part on “negative press and social media” from the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and subsequent arrests.
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President Jay Bernhardt wrote that he expects the enrollment decline to last only one year, but the effects will ripple through the budget for the next several.
“We attribute this reduction to multiple factors, including national enrollment trends away from smaller private institutions, an enrollment deposit delay in response to the new FAFSA rollout, student protests targeting our yield events and campus tours, and negative press and social media generated from the demonstrations and arrests,” Bernhardt wrote in an email shared with the Globe.
Michelle Gaseau, an Emerson spokesperson, declined to comment on the subject Wednesday morning and said the message was internal.
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a faculty member told the Globe they were blindsided by the announcement.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Colleges and universities are where the real true believers reside. They will go down with the ship rather than change course.
BTTT
“the message was internal.”
Ah—more “transparency” from those who wish to rule us.
;-)
“The college is partly blaming the declining numbers on negative press from the pro-Palestinian demonstrations and arrests..”
Do they think they’re in Europe or something? Calling for Genocide will STILL you “negative press”, at least in the US. No doubt this will change if the Democrats win in November, but for now, the media at least has to fake it.
Maybe they should sell the campus to a truck driving or trades school, then maybe the children will actually learn to do real work.
Just a wild guess, but perhaps part of the reason for declining enrollment is the lower birthrate a couple of decades ago and the growing realization that a college education too often is not worth the expenses incurred.
McTeigue’s Axiom - “Most institutions would rather die than admit that anyone ever made a mistake.”
We've seen the start already, but there will be extreme culling of US "higher learning" institutions, due specifically to maxed-out student and citizen debt, demographics and woke-stupidity.
😁
Good post—technology is gradually making the university model obsolete—and as you say the weak actors will fail first.
The cost to attend Emerson is ~$80K a year for tuition, housing, and other fees.
Part of the reason is On line High School learning that created students that hate school. They don’t want college. They want freedom.
Emerson has about 4200 kids. 23% are Jewish. I guess Jewish kids found safer spaces to enroll. I wish they would have told the number of new enrollments and the number of out transfers.
yutes find it easier and cheaper to hook up with an app.
Imagine using the $80K a year to start a blue collar business.
$320K is solid seed capital—much more useful than an Emerson “credential”.
Could be parents are wising up and refusing to spend $80,000/year to send their not terribly bright kids to a third rate college.
Here’s a helpful suggestion, spend more time teaching valuable information and less time doing Democrat/communist push polls and maybe the students will come and stay.
The faculty member was subsequently fired for the usual smokescreen of extremely unspecific thoughtcrimes. That led to considerable followup in the conservative precincts of social media, with the result that it started popping up in my YouTube feeds. There are more videos if you want to search them out, and in some of them, he gets much more specific about the process by which he was purged. Emerson College wanted him to sign an NDA, but the last I saw, he had refused. I do not know where this will end up.
Anyhow, I have no reason to think this guy is conservative, unless maybe in the born again sense of a liberal who has just gotten redpilled. He is, however, clearly a classical liberal who wants students to think for themselves and aspire to be more than party-lining, goosestepping NPCs who mindlessly accept that "critical thinking" means regurgitating the current leftist slogans on command. I also have no idea whether the kickback from this event is significant enough to be felt in Emerson applications, parents' willingness to cough up tuition, and contributions from Emerson's donor base. But it's out there, and it clearly labels Emerson as a hack indoctrination center -- which is probably not good positioning for a school that wants to preach about creativity and independent thinking.
When a STUDENT asks about JK Rowling this happens
Out of idle curiosity I searched on YouTube for other videos about Emerson. There were many of them, quite a few from institutional other cheerleading sources. But there was also this, from a kid who dropped out of the Emerson film school to make his way as an independent creator on YouTube and other social media platforms. This is part of what has Hollywood in a panic. Americans are now spending more time than ever consuming electronic media, but traditional movies and television are losing market share, as is streaming. YouTube is now bigger than any of the streaming networks. YouTube, of course, is owned by Google and that raises issues of the manipulation of algorithms and deplatforming. It's still part of the Borg. But it's also a platform where independent voices find an audience, and as it stands now, the YouTube critics are having a field day with Disney/Marvel, Disney/StarWars, Disney/Pixar, and Disney/Indiana Jones. It's fun to watch.
Here's the kid who dropped out of Emerson:
Decline due to protests?
Aww, I think I’m gonna cry.
Right after I finish cheering loudly.
on Emerson College.
BOSTON - Pro-Palestine encampments at Boston colleges that were later broken up by police have many students who live on campus on edge.
Many Jewish students at Emerson College say they are unnerved by the protests. One student, who wished to stay anonymous, said she is one of several Jewish students who chose to live in an off-campus hotel room provided by the college.
“Now that I am not on campus anymore, I feel a definite sense of peace,” the student said. “Every day, I am nervous to wear my necklaces.”
Her dorm room is located right outside where the encampment used to be. “I could focus more. I could rest. I didn’t have to fall asleep listening to them screaming chants,” she said.
Emerson sophomore Arthur Mansavage still sees pro-Palestinian comments written on the campus walls in the common areas. “There have been quite a lot Jewish and Israeli students who have felt very uncomfortable with this encampment,” Mansavage said. He also chose to live in a hotel during the encampment. “I shouldn’t have to be moved to a different place to feel comfortable. It’s definitely very comforting to be able to walk into a building not feeling so intimidated,” he said.
April 30, 2024 local CBS news
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