Well, Jay Eshelman and I have finally found something we can agree on, so it’s probably worth reproducing here instead of leaving it buried in the comments section of his recent post. Here it is, in response to someone claiming that if we could just get 25% of kids to leave public schools, the system would collapse.
Enrollment
Time for Me to Get Back to Holding Government Responsible Again …
We used to use the phrase “Bring Big Flashlights” when we first started, but like many things, there were lots of “Shiny Objects” that captured my attention over the years. And after my latest DCYF-induced hiatus of several months, I am starting to rev back up again.
Keene State College Enrollment Decline Repackaged as ‘Right-Sizing’
Keene State College continues to have enrollment issues. But on a positive note, they’ve made that problem (sort of, kind of) go away by renaming it. The perennial decrease has been relabeled. The ten percent of staff the college had to buy out to avoid firing them outright can rest easy knowing they were ‘Right-sized’ out of their jobs.
The Keene State College Budget Crisis Evolution
![photo c/o Boston.com – The beginning of Keene State’s Enrollment Crisis](https://granitegrok.com/wp-content/uploads/keene-riot-560x420-1-560x420.jpg)
Keene State College has an ongoing crisis. Enrollment is down. They are running a deficit.
In an article from this past September (in the KSC Equinox Student/Campus Newspaper) interim College President Dr. Melinda Treadwell said a lot of things, but this caught my eye.
“[We need to be] getting students excited to see what a life at Keene State could be [like] because they are shopping and we have a lot of competition, but I think we have a lot to offer,” Treadwell said. “I think we lost our story a little bit and we need to regain it.”
About that story.