Low enrollment forced “the University of Oregon to slash $65 million from its budget and shutter two dorms,” reports The College Fix.
“Based on our new numbers, we will need to cut around $65 million from our budget to avoid an ongoing annual budget deficit in the coming years,” the university’s president lamented.
He cited lower out-of-state first-year enrollment. That cut the university’s tuition revenue. In response, the university imposed a hiring and pay freeze.
Trustees also blamed rising per-student costs and a loss in federal grant funding, at a recent meeting of the university’s board of trustees.
On Tuesday, the university disclosed that it will shutter two dorms located off its main campus, as it copes with a budget deficit. It will close Barnhart Residence Hall and Barnhart Dining Hall and shutter Riley Hall for the upcoming academic year.
Despite these closures, the University is still constructing two new dorms, and a local newspaper notes that it “has opened three new dormitories in the past five years.”
The University of Oregon recently had to pay $193,000 for censoring a conservative professor.
A Title IX complaint was filed against the University of Oregon for giving transgender students financial benefits not available to other students.
The state of Oregon has undermined academic standards, in the name of equity and “antiracism.”
Some schools in Oregon have become obsessed with “antiracist” pedagogy. “Antiracist” pedagogy often teaches kids to hate the free-market economy and to support racial discrimination. “To love capitalism is to end up loving racism. To love racism is to end up loving capitalism…Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist,” claimed Ibram Kendi’s best-selling book, How to Be An Antiracist. That book was praised as a “comprehensive introduction to critical race theory,” by the leading progressive media organ Slate. The “key concept” in Ibram Kendi’s book was that discrimination against whites is the only way to achieve equality: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination,” wrote Kendi in that book.
