Administrators at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, are being served a dose of poetic justice one year after campus protesters grabbed national headlines: Enrollment is plummeting as families and students say “enough.”

This week Campus Reform noted that between 500 and 600 fewer students will attend Evergreen State next fall than in 2017, according to internal estimates. That means projected full-time enrollment is down as much as 17 percent from 3,500 last fall; that’s almost certainly a nightmare for any institution of higher learning.

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The school has weathered a series of embarrassing incidents in the past year, in which student activists called all the shots. During one of the activists’ encounters with the school president, for example, they wouldn’t even let him use the bathroom, according to Mynorthwest.com.

“These colleges just don’t get it,” a 55-year-old father of two college students from Warwick, Rhode Island, told LifeZette. “Most of us are just not that liberal, and cannot relate to validating the behaviors of these kids by doing exactly as they say. We send kids to school to learn, not to ‘teach’ administrators how it’s going to be.”

John Carmichael, the chief of staff and secretary to the Evergreen State College board of trustees, revealed in a memo to staff and faculty members on Tuesday that the school has already cut 24 faculty members and eliminated 19 currently vacant staff positions.

He also said that up to 20 additional staff members could be laid off.

“Over the past several days, 20 staff members have been notified that they are at risk for layoff,” Carmichael wrote, according to Campus Reform. “These layoffs, although necessary to stabilize the college’s budget, represent a profound loss felt by many.”

The staffing cuts follow the college’s revelation that it would cut $5.9 million from the budget in anticipation of a shortfall in applications of up to 20 percent, Campus Reform also noted.

The uber-liberal climate on campus even led the nonpartisan Foundation for Individual Rights in Education last week to name Evergreen as one of the 10 worst colleges for free speech.

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Despite a projected plunge in enrollment for the fall of 2018 and backlash from donors, alumni, parents, and prospective students, the college’s actions are curious.

Instead of holding themselves at least partially accountable for disruptions surrounding the “Day of Absence” last April — another well-publicized school event in which organizers demanded white students and staffers leave campus so that students of color could talk about racism and white privilege, while urging law enforcement to stay away — college administrators continue to cower to the demands of social justice warriors. (See video, above, to learn how uncomfortable white students were made to feel on campus.)

Evergreen is doubling down on identity politics with a “bias response team” to deal with perceived insensitivities, according to a recent op-ed in The Wall Street Journal.

That publication also characterized the 500- to 600-person drop in enrollment as an “academic hemorrhage.”

Although the college has canceled this year’s “Day of Absence,” students of color are being allowed to go ahead with something called “A day for us, by us,” according to Twitchy.com. The day will consist of yoga “for people of color [POC] only,” a POC-only leadership skills workshop, a POC-only solidarity panel discussion, and a POC-only action planning session — oh, and something called “deconstructing whiteness.”

While the college allows this “day” to happen (one can only imagine the uproar if people of color were excluded), how will it compensate for its steep drop in enrollment?

Related: How Evergreen State College Failed to Protect Its White Students

LifeZette reached out to college spokesman Zach Powers, but did not hear back before publication.

“They should expect nothing less until they grab the reins of their institution back,” said the Rhode Island dad. “College funds are too precious for this type of nonsense.”

Elizabeth Economou is a former CNBC staff writer and adjunct professor. Follow her on Twitter.

(photo credit, homepage and article images: Black Lives Matter Black Friday [1], [2], CC BY-SA 2.0, by The All-Nite Images)