Is the U of Minnesota at Morris too diverse for a student to attend? (R) Regent wants to know

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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/

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 but they aren't REALLY students, or what is his thinking?

Cross posted in the Minnesota Group https://www.democraticunderground.com/105911971

[Tetrachloride]

1. Alternative issues : fictional speculation

Cost

Quality of instruction

Course selection

Polka time

The chancellor is an idiot

The chancellor is just plain hated

[J_William_Ryan]

2. "Too diverse for a student to attend?"

Translation: too many blacks for a white student to attend.

Don’t want to attend school with a bunch of black gang members and thugs.

Too much diversity is a bad thing for the racist right.

[Dysfunctional]

3. When I read things like this, I think things would have been better if everyone grew up like me.

I grew up in the 40s and 50s in Roxbury MA. The population was about 50% White and Jewish, and 50% Black. It didn't make a difference, we all hung out together, and my older sister dated whomever she wanted. My parents never asked her if he was White or Black. They only found out when he picked her up and they didn't care if he was Black. What a difference when I joined the army. Not so much in the army, but it was there, but the civilians.