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Enrollment dropped again from fall to winter quarter at The Evergreen State College, its Board of Trustees learned last week. The enrollment update was among a wide-ranging update on the...
Plummeting enrollments at Evergreen State College put deep cuts on the table. When the faculty volunteered to help recruit new students, the tide began to turn. For over a decade, enrollment at Evergreen State College has been on a steep and steady decline.
Since peaking during the 2009-10 academic year at 4,891 headcount, the college began a steady enrollment decline to 4,089 in 2016-17. The decline in enrollment accelerated in subsequent years, likely due to impacts of the events that occurred on campus during the spring of 2017. Headcount in academic year 2020-21 was just 2,281. The college has
To be sure, many colleges are dealing with low enrollment because of declining birth rates that have resulted in fewer Americans of traditional college age. But at Evergreen, enrollment has dropped by 1,000 students since 2017, to about 2,900, indicating something else might be at play.
The Evergreen State College is anticipating a big drop in enrollment this fall. Some point to the protests last year as a cause of the decline, while others say it's a variety of factors.
Like many liberal arts schools, Evergreen State College has faced a drop in enrollment. But the school experienced a particularly steep decline – a 27% drop – since protests over racial tensions erupted on campus in 2017.
Evergreen’s enrollment began steadily declining in 2010, in line with a national trend of falling enrollment at liberal arts colleges.