Facing lower than expected fall enrollment numbers, the president of Emerson College placed part of the blame on the “negative press” coverage of pro-Palestinian protests on campus in a recent campus email.
The Massachusetts college may lay off faculty and staff as a result of the drop, President Jay Bernhardt said in an email to faculty and staff last week, The Berkeley Beacon reports.
“We attribute this reduction to multiple factors, including national enrollment trends away from smaller private institutions, an enrollment deposit delay in response to the new FAFSA rollout, student protests targeting our yield events and campus tours, and negative press and social media generated from the demonstrations and arrests,” he wrote. […]
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