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In its most recent audited financial statement , Oberlin said 97 employees took voluntary buyouts in , with another 17 in For the past few years, Oberlin has drawn about 5 percent of its endowment for operating expenses, a standard distribution. He said Oberlin has many generous donors. Last year, 1, prospective students applied.
Of those, 33 percent were admitted, up slightly from 28 percent in The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston had a slightly higher acceptance rate at 33 percent in , according to the most recent federal data. At the Juilliard School in New York City, just 6 percent of applicants were admitted in , federal data show. Oberlin's selectivity in the college of liberal arts has dropped slightly: in , it admitted 39 percent of applicants. As recently as , its acceptance rate stood at just 29 percent.
By way of comparison, Amherst College admitted just 13 percent of applicants in Middlebury last year admitted about 19 percent. Carleton College in Minnesota admitted about 20 percent, an admissions official said.
Oberlin's yield, in both the conservatory and the college of liberal arts, has shrunk: the conservatory enrolled 42 percent of admitted students in Last year, that dropped to 33 percent. In the college of liberal arts, yield dropped from 32 percent to 29 percent. Enrollment last fall totaled 2,, about what it was a decade earlier.
It's clear that college officials have looked at the conservatory "in the context of the whole operation" and are trying to "make adjustments that are true to the overall mission of the institution, while looking at the dollars and cents of how it operates. David Kamitsuka, dean of the liberal arts college, said the goal is to provide a more integrated experience that connects classroom work with experiential learning, likely in the form of more internships. Among other proposals, Oberlin is considering shrinking the size of its campus to save on utility costs and deferred maintenance, as well as introducing new majors such as business and global health.
He's not surprised that's taking place at Oberlin, a college known for inclusivity. Founded in , it was coeducational from the beginning and began admitting African American students two years later. Michael Emerson Dirda , a graduate who majored in English and history, said many students choose Oberlin because "while they may not be conservatory-caliber musicians themselves, they still love playing music, learning about music and being surrounded by music.
If the enrollment changes are able to free up resources for such students and otherwise bridge the gap between college and conservatory, this could be a useful way for Oberlin to differentiate itself from similar liberal arts institutions.
NPR's Holmes, who is also a former attorney, said she's more concerned about what seems a bid by Oberlin to reconsider hourly workers' pay. The college says that while many faculty salaries fall below those of peer institutions, Oberlin's hourly workers earn "significantly higher wages than their counterparts" at four nearby liberal arts colleges.
It's painful.
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