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Is the U of Minnesota at Morris too diverse for a student to attend? (R) Regent wants to know
U-of-M Board of Regents vice-chair asks if ‘too much diversity’ leads to declining enrollment at Morris campus, KSTP, 10/16/22
During a University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting last Thursday, Board of Regents Vice-Chair, Steve Sviggum, asked the interim-chancellor at the University of Minnesota-Morris if declining enrollment might be connected to “too much diversity” at the campus which is about two-and-a-half hours west of the metro area.
Sviggum asked Morris Interim Chancellor, Janet Schrunk Ericksen, “Is it possible that at Morris we’ve become too diverse? Is that at all possible from a marketing standpoint?”
Sviggum noted that enrollment at Morris had declined by more than 40 percent “over the past decade” and that was why he asked the question.
“I have received a couple letters, two actually, from friends whose children are not going to go to Morris, because it is too diverse of a campus. They just didn’t feel comfortable there,” said Sviggum. “Is it all possible, in the specifics of Morris, that we’ve become too diverse for a student to attend? Again, I am on thin ice. I understand that. At 71 or 72 years old I say things that I would never even thought when I was 52.”
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/u-of-m-board-of-regents-vice-chair-asks-if-too-much-diversity-leads-to-declining-enrollment-at-morris-campus/
During a University of Minnesota Board of Regents meeting last Thursday, Board of Regents Vice-Chair, Steve Sviggum, asked the interim-chancellor at the University of Minnesota-Morris if declining enrollment might be connected to “too much diversity” at the campus which is about two-and-a-half hours west of the metro area.
Sviggum asked Morris Interim Chancellor, Janet Schrunk Ericksen, “Is it possible that at Morris we’ve become too diverse? Is that at all possible from a marketing standpoint?”
Sviggum noted that enrollment at Morris had declined by more than 40 percent “over the past decade” and that was why he asked the question.
“I have received a couple letters, two actually, from friends whose children are not going to go to Morris, because it is too diverse of a campus. They just didn’t feel comfortable there,” said Sviggum. “Is it all possible, in the specifics of Morris, that we’ve become too diverse for a student to attend? Again, I am on thin ice. I understand that. At 71 or 72 years old I say things that I would never even thought when I was 52.”
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/u-of-m-board-of-regents-vice-chair-asks-if-too-much-diversity-leads-to-declining-enrollment-at-morris-campus/
Sviggum(R) is a former Speaker of the Minnesota House
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sviggum
Too diverse for a student to attend? Apparently he doesn't consider the "diverse" students who are there to be actually students? They are crisis actors? Or they are there just because of woke quotas and are getting a free four years or what is his thinking?
Cross-posted in General Discussion https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217259805
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