U. of Missouri continues to bleed students and cash after 2015 protests rocked the campus

If you're a college student, 2015 is, like, a century ago.  And unless you're a political junkie you probably didn't hear about the anti-white protests at the University of Missouri that year that caused utter chaos on that campus.

The cause wasn't police violence.  No one was shot.  Basically, black students were angry that Mizzou didn't have more courses in African studies, and there were threats of violence.  One student went on a hunger strike that lasted an entire week.  Naturally that made national news, which fired up the activists to increase their demands.

And they did, demanding that both the school's president and chancellor resign.  And both did.

White social justice warriors helped the demonstrators.   The creature with the glasses in the pic below is Melissa Click, who was some type of journalism professor.  When she saw a student photographer working as a stringer for a national paper taking pics, she DEMANDED that he cease.  He said "This is public property.  You have no authority to tell me not to take photos."  She totally freaked out (shocker, since she looks so calm and rational, eh?) and tried to smash his camera.  When she couldn't accomplish that she screamed to the demonstrators "Can we get some muscle over here?"  So the student photographer left.

Short answer: Mizzou hired a "diversity vice president"--huge salary, does nothing useful, since all faculties have been social justice snowflakes for at least 15 years.  And they've been trying to make a "diversity course" a requirement to graduate.  Ah.



But there was also one other effect that absolutely no one could have predicted--well, at least no liberal or academic would have:  Students about to choose a college, who saw what was happening at Mizzou, said "No, don't think I'll apply there."  And parents who were scouting colleges with their kids agreed. 

And can you guess the result?   Between the fall 2015 and 2017 semesters, freshman enrollment dropped 35%, resulting in a drop in tuition income of $29 million.  Even for a state school, that's a serious hit, and the school was forced to cut a few staff positions last year, as well as not re-hiring many non-tenured professors.

"A few" is actually 308.  And last week the school said it will have to eliminate another 185 positions. They've eliminated low-demand courses.

So what we have here should have been a great learning opportunity.  But it's doubtful any of the administrators at Mizzou did, as they're now inventing wild excuses to hide the real reason for the massive drop in enrollment.  As an example, they're now claiming the drop in enrollment is due to "more-aggressive recruiting by universities in adjoining states."  Ah.