Times are bad at Evergreen State.
Ever since its leadership decided that letting social justice crybullies terrorize the school was the right move, the situation at Evergreen turned precarious. Evergreen State is low on funds and students.
And it's not hard to guess why.
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.
They could cut back on the diversity officials, but that would undercut the central purpose of modern education today: getting students to parrot politically correct slogans.
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.
Of course they are. The more options students have, the more likely they are to exercise them.
“… In a college where 89 percent of the operating budget is in salaries and benefits, it is impossible to reduce the budget by substantial amounts without giving up positions. In anticipation of this, we will soon be announcing a hiring freeze.”
It depends on who is getting paid
Evergreen State needs instructors. It doesn't need all its diversity personnel. But we all know who is going to get cut.
Leftist privilege is leftist privilege.