Evergreen State College faces $2.1M budget shortfall, cites enrollment drop, issues layoff notices

[IsailedawayfromFR]

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.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36145/

Yes, Sally, there is a cost to being a liberal and displaying it to the world.

[dfwgator]

Maybe they can raise some money with a Rachel Corrie Memorial Pancake Breakfast.

[Free Vulcan]

When you cause a liberal's liberal college enrollment exodus like this, maybe you've strayed just a little too far into the SJW kook zone.

[NavyCanDo]

Evergreen is one of the most Liberal colleges, right up there with Berkeley. Many of the WTO rioters came up to Seattle from that campus.

[Wingnut]

Can you say MIZZOU?  I bet you can Evergreen I bet you can.

[Oceander]

Shut it down. 

[Fishrrman]

Why would any white student -- even a liberal one -- want to go to a school where whites are reviled and attacked?

Hopefully this school will soon file for bankruptcy.
And perhaps even close.

[Oceander]

Why would any white student -- even a liberal one -- want to go to a school where whites are reviled and attacked?

Hopefully this school will soon file for bankruptcy.
And perhaps even close.

Hopefully.

[Night Hides Not]

I think I found a problem: there are approximately 225 academic staff and 550 administrative staff for 4000 students. It must take a village to support a snowflake.

[Wingnut]

I think I found a problem: there are approximately 225 academic staff and 550 administrative staff for 4000 students. It must take a village to support a snowflake.

almost 4 to one! 

[endicom]

Hopefully this school will soon file for bankruptcy.
And perhaps even close.

It could conceivably lose accreditation.

[Night Hides Not]

Another issue: their mascot is large clam.

Speedy the Geoduck? You've got to be kidding me.

[Wingnut]

Another issue: their mascot is large clam.

Speedy the Geoduck? You've got to be kidding me.

Oh good Lawd!  Their "fight song"

Go, Geoducks go,
Through the mud and the sand,
let's go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

Go, Geoducks go,
Stretch your necks when the tide
is low
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

[Night Hides Not]

Oh good Lawd!  Their "fight song"

Go, Geoducks go,
Through the mud and the sand,
let's go.
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

Go, Geoducks go,
Stretch your necks when the tide
is low
Siphon high, squirt it out,
swivel all about,
let it all hang out.

Worse yet, the proper pronunciation is "gooey duck". Lol