Evergreen State Facing Budget Shortfall and Layoffs Amid Enrollment Drop
Completely predictable…
This is the fault of leadership at the school, which failed to end the student protests and allowed the situation to get much worse. It’s difficult to feel any sympathy.
The College Fix reported:
Evergreen State College faces $2.1M budget shortfall, cites enrollment drop, issues layoff notices
Administrators at The Evergreen State College have announced that the embattled school faces a massive $2.1 million budget shortfall due in part to a drop in enrollment, and the institution has already handed out some temporary layoff notices as officials grapple with balancing the books.
In an Aug. 28 memo to the campus community titled “Enrollment and Budget Update,” officials report that fall 2017-18 registration is down about 5 percent, from 3,922 students to 3,713. But the problem is nearly all of the students they lost are nonresidents, who traditionally pay a much higher tuition to attend, officials explained in the memo, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix.
Combined with a shortfall in funding from state coffers to shoulder a mandatory cost-of-living salary increase and a rise in the general cost of operations, and the school must find a way to resolve a $2.1 million shortfall for the fiscal year that began July 1, according to the memo.
“This creates the need for significant budget cuts in the immediate future,” the memo states, adding that the university late last month already handed out temporary layoff notices to 17 facilities staff members.
“Some notices were rescinded as we try to use scarce local dollars to keep people employed,” the memo states. “… However, if the capital budget crisis at the state level continues indefinitely, layoffs will become impossible to avoid.”
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Typical — layoff notices went to “17 facilities staff members” — you know, the folks who cut the grass, sweep the floors and empty refuse bins from the cafeteria — instead of the insane administrators and faculty who fostered and exacerbated the left-wing mayhem.
Gee, we allow unhinged student groups to openly harass and threaten teachers and students – how come kids don’t want to enroll here anymore?
Evergreen reminds me of the time Gen Myers visited Quantico as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He was asking a young Marine L/Cpl how he timed his machinegun fire. The L/Cpl replied that he used “Die M-Fer, Die.”
Semper Fi.
Keep it up, liberal colleges. You are protesting yourselves out of existence.