re: Birmingham Southern To Close in May

4-6 of these don’t belong on the list. Get your point tho

So were they giving kids way more in scholarship money than they should have?

This is from a 2022 article and a point not mentioned yet.

In four years, the number of students graduating from high schools across the country will begin a sudden and precipitous decline, due to a rolling demographic aftershock of the Great Recession. Traumatized by uncertainty and unemployment, people decided to stop having kids during that period. But even as we climbed out of the recession, the birth rate kept dropping, and we are now starting to see the consequences on campuses everywhere. Classes will shrink, year after year, for most of the next two decades. People in the higher education industry call it “the enrollment cliff.”

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Southern Shreveport
Southern Nola
Northwestern State
Nichols State
McNeese State
LSU-Shreveport (excluding medical school)
ULM (Move pharmacy school to LTU)
LSU-Alexandria
All need closed down or converted into trade school/2 year juco’s that feed a four year college.

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If you close these then you need to accommodate some of their feeder post secondary schools like Fletcher, River Parishes, South Louisiana Technical College, etc.

While I do agree, there are way too many colleges in Louisiana, other states may have just as many, but they just don’t compete in D-I athletics or are similar to the LSU-A or LSU-S campuses without sports and chancellors and designation as individual institutions. They operate as single university of the major institution. That I could support more of.

With technology and access to high speed internet, the only “on campus events” need to be labs, speeches, and presentations.


Nicholls actually started as a junior college as a feeder to LSU, but legislators felt a need to expand educational access across the state in a time when there was no internet access that led to situation we are today

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With technology and access to high speed internet, the only “on campus events” need to be labs, speeches, and presentations.

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So basically go back to pandemic mode?
We saw how well that worked for student success.

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So basically go back to pandemic mode? We saw how well that worked for student success.

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Not quite to that extreme, but if you reach college and still need to sit in a class to listen to a lecture from a brain dead professor, then maybe an advanced degree is not for you.

College needs to be retooled into working education programs where students are actively working in their career field sector and getting to know what they are studying. This would be more like a paid apprenticeship type of model where instead of the student going into debt and working for free, they are getting paid.

It could also help to get a feel for that career path. College really should be less about living the Greek life, and more about working real jobs and developing a path to success.