Missouri Update: Crazy Campus Radicals Are Financially Crippling the University

[Valin]

National Review/The Corner:

David French

March 9, 2016

 

For months, news has trickled out of Missouri regarding the negative fallout from the fall student protests. The university capitulated in the face of a racial “crisis” wholly of the protesters manufacture (demanding a chancellor’s resignation over random racial incidents completely outside his control), and the chickens are truly coming home to roost. Previously, I’ve posted about declining student applications and declining donations, yet the true dimensions of the financial disaster are only just now coming into focus. Fox Sports has obtained a copy of the interim chancellor’s letter to the university community:

 

I am writing to you today to confirm that we project a very significant budget shortfall due to an unexpected sharp decline in first-year enrollments and student retention this coming fall. I wish I had better news.

 

The anticipated declines which total about 1,500 fewer students than current enrollment at MU in addition to a small number of necessary investments are expected to leave us with an approximate $32 million budget gap for next year. A smaller entering freshman class will have continuing impact on finances as they progress toward their degrees at MU.

 

 

 

(Snip)

 

Cowardice has its costs. Flagship state universities — backed by the full financial might of the state and its taxpayers — are for now too big to fail, but they’re not too big to suffer. It remains to be seen whether other university administrators will learn the correct lessons from Missouri’s capitulation.

 

Campus radicals rule without serious consequence only when the news of their extremism remains largely confined to friendly academic media. When news breaks outside the leftist cocoon, the consequences can be severe.

[clearvision]

You mean there are some kids who actually care about an education?

[Valin]

You mean there are some kids who actually care about an education?

 

 

Shocking but apparently true.

 

Reminds of....back in the day, How gets all the articles books etc about them? The protesters, but not very much about those that enlisted, went to scenic SW Asia saw and did things that no one should have to see and do, came home and just got on with their boring bourgeoisie lives.

[RandyM]

You mean there are some kids who actually care about an education?

Apparently, not at Mizzou.