The Fight for Hampshire College: How One School’s Financial Calamity Exposes a Crisis in Higher Ed

[@davidwhitten3596]

Hey anybody want to buy a Social Justice Warrior college on a mission?

[@laurier3348]

No , yak

[@michaelcap9550]

With red headed aliens as teachers.

[@brucedeville9053]

Nope

[@frederickjohnpicarello1909]

I wouldn't give them a pack of Ramen noodles for that College!..

[@dad5650]

Put a Cabelas in there!

[@scasey1960]

Social justice doesn’t pay. Why not raise tuition now that the endowment is in the dumpster.

[@rachelatwood9555]

tuition is already *very* high, and in this economy, fewer families than ever are able to pay the sticker price, hence, enrollment's down.

[@davidwhitten3596]

@@rachelatwood9555 .... You mean your liberal college teachers are asking too much money to teach the kids ....that's kind of greedy

[@charliesheen9709]

how about using the $3.8 billion that goes to isreail each year is spent on US citizens?

[@davidwhitten3596]

@sonoki82 ... Get woke go broke!

[@brucedeville9053]

Issuing worthless degrees might be a place to start.

[@wolfgangdemmel3598]

The problem with socialism is, eventually it runs out of other people's money.

[@bernardakoito]

Progressive liberal college? Big clue right there

[@billyholmes3]

Maybe if they admitted students on qualifications and not race or color nor sex or religion , and insuring the students have a chance of graduating instead of dropping out due to them not capable of doing collage level study's ??? Maybe pushing communist and socialist ideals isnt the best rout to take ?? Maybe making students hate the US , capitalism , white people , and Christians is a good policy , I am so happy they are closing and i hope it is quick and painfull , i hope they never get another teaching position again ,

[@ricardodsavant2965]

🤣

[@svs8909]

FUCK M A S S H O L E S

[@robertstv8045]

Silly artsy fartsy degrees not needed. Close

[@markmahan38]

It sounds to me that foul play happened at the college. And that trustee sounded disingenuous and shifty. The fact that he hung up before the interview was over say it all for me. What I think happened is the trustee and others embezzled the college funds. There is no way that suddenly a college goes from looking ok to sudden financial crisis. This reminds me of Sears. And dozens of other buisiness that went under. And dozens of other higher education facilities. All had finacial crimes done to them, to force their closer and bankruptcy.

[@dmitrypepper]

The Trustees did not embezzle the college funds. It was a quick decision and it was partly to blame for the Mass of Board of Education idea of proposing a law that would require colleges to have 150 million dollars for four years at a time. It was then never put into effect. I think Hampshire saw this and panicked and jumped the gun. It's a tricky situation where the administration has some good plans and the community has goods plans, but both some how conflict each other. There's also the "damned if you do, damned if you don't" mentality across our campus. My opinion is, there shouldn't be any layoffs until we hear everything from the new Re-Envisioning group and community and see how much funds the alumni groups raise to help Hampshire. If this is not enough, Hampshire will say that and then a potential merger will be needed, in my humble opinion. Hampshire College student here.

[@davidwhitten3596]

@@dmitrypepper ... Dmitry ... You should have never taken down the flag!

[@del_boy_trotter]

@Mike Nunn Exactly, not even the most stupid of parents are going to send their kids knowingly, to a school steeped in Marxist, extreme-leftist ideology!

[@Mcvthree3]

This madhouse cannot implode and close quickly enough....

[@casey98]

"professor in social and feminist studies" ...... right there is the reason you are going broke lol lol lol

[@georgemontoya5218]

Out of business, bankrupt, liquidate everything. Get the f**k out.

[@bassmaster867]

$65 k a year to attend and they're having financial problems

[@wolfgangdemmel3598]

Professors ain't cheap. They don't do socialism when it comes to their wages and benefits. Plus, the administration size in colleges has gone bananas. There is a very simple way to deal with student demands. Charge per service. The paying customer is always king.

[@Yaxpacpa]

The trustee said that enrollment is down across many colleges, but the truth is that nobody wants to go to social justice colleges. Ask the people at Evergreen about it.

[@travisadams4470]

I hope Hampshire college goes bust! That's what you get for burning an American flag.

[@travisadams4470]

All Liberal Colleges should fail and close

[@myleshagar9722]

The prof. taught the same thing for 40 years. Way past due date.

[@atraxrobustus918]

The chutzpah of these pricks! They burn the flag, whine on and on about how much they hate America then they want taxpayers to bail them out and provide them with student loans

[@gordonadams5891]

Hampshire offers unique education opportunity. It would be sad to see it go.

[@davidwhitten3596]

Send them your money then

[@alfredoxu7926]

so extraordinary that no one wants to go. what a joke of a "school"

[@corkycorky1975]

Margaret, the way you look, the things you are saying....that's why the college has failed. Your fault.

[@bobbest1611]

sounds a lot like evergreen college. fewer kids want to spend thousands for a degree which will never enable them to repay their debt.

[@kranzonguam]

Have you actually seen the employment rate for Evergreen grads, or are you just spouting propaganda? 80+% employed 2 years after graduation- average of $5600 student debt...

[@bobbest1611]

@@kranzonguam no, i haven't. i worked at a college and my boss was a genius at manipulating statistics to make himself look good. so i don't believe anything a college says--only insiders know the real story. all colleges say 80%+ employment--but, in their degree field or as burger flippers & uber drivers? debt? part timers, one semester students, drop outs--the number sounds totally unrealistic to me.

[@CIARUNSITE]

@@bobbest1611 Quit making shit up to deny reality, Robert.

[@rachelatwood9555]

Evergreen is public, no?

[@npgibson69]

Rachel Atwood Yes, TESC offers a progressive liberal arts education at a public university price. However there are conservative hateRs in the state legislature who would like to shut it down.

[@robertl.penrose4070]

Natural selection in action. Colleges should make their students and society stronger not in debt and indoctrinated with useless "knowledge". If I was an alumnus I would not only never donate, (students paying 60k+ ???) I would try to hide the fact that I ever went there.

[@ktucker147]

If you can’t allocate enough time to hear your guests through, why bring them on only to cut them short.

[@burgerflipper2494]

finally

[@brucedeville9053]

Go woke, wait up broke.

[@pkasb90]

Tuition fees do not cover costs of running the college.

[@marcomac8824]

Continuing falling enrolment? Inadequate (“lower”) endowment? I wonder why? How are your woke staff in any different a position than the hundreds of thousands of steelworkers sacrificed on the alter of the globalism they have so vigorously supported? Little sympathy. If staff are so committed give up half their salary .... but waaaiiit ... yiu mean the woke class give up something. Vale Hampshire.

[@dad5650]

You are now reaping what you have sown.

[@atraxrobustus918]

An other

[@robertgauthier640]

Did you find that nut job on the set of Harry Potter. Lmao

[@del_boy_trotter]

I think the first speaker from the college, a Professor with "4 decades of teaching behind her" typifies the reasons for the plight of this (another, yet again!) 'Liberal Arts College' in massive, possibly terminal decline! She immediately professed shock and dismay at the decision to terminate many contracts yet she admitted that this establishment is (as they all should be!) tuition-fee dependent! She said that in the full knowledge (from many sources both within and without the college) that the new freshman intake for the Autumn semester, will be around a mere 15 students! The whole ethos of learning/education at this place is, and has been, an absolute shambles for many years, certainly since they took the decision in 2012 to increase their intake of part-financed, undocumented students! Is this learned professor suggesting that this establishment is a charity with some educational offshoots as an afterthought! They don't even grade students for goodness sakes, and they permit students to 'construct' the content of their courses, a recipe for ultimate disaster! No coincidence one can safely say, that Religious/Conservative colleges are turning away potential students and are at capacity, whilst every defined, Liberal Arts College is running into the ground at a rate of knots!

[@EarthAngel504]

it's obvious, if the

[@alikarim7593]

the college is targeted, it is doing it's job......

[@laurier3348]

The college ist a victim.

[@delvana111]

and what town/city is this college? ANYBODY HOME!!!!?

[@georgemcfarlane532]

Massachusetts