It’s come to this.
Inside Higher Ed reports that the new president of the University of Southern Maine, which has seen enrollment drop in recent years by 2,000 to a current enrollment of 6,500 students, has instructed professors to call students and tell them to get back in the classroom.
“I know you and the whole faculty are deeply concerned with what can be done to reduce the number of positions and programs we have to forgo,” [interim President David Flanagan] said in an Aug. 15 email to faculty representatives. “Right now and for the next two weeks the single most important thing faculty members can do is to personally, directly call and contact past students who have not signed up to return in the fall.”
The advice is voluntary, but some professors have bristled at the request, Inside Higher Ed reports.
Yeah, when student retention gets to the point that professors have to beg their students to enroll, you know the higher education bubble is getting really, really bad.
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