re: What Universities Should the State of La Close?

How is that an idiotic premise? You know how many people get a degree and commute? I don't know a lot about other universities, but am from commuting distance to Nicholls. I don't think it's a great school or anything and never would have gone there myself. But I know a lot of people who went there. Doctors, Lawyers, and successful people in business. I know several public school valedictorians who would have never gone to college if they couldn't commute to Nicholls. There is no other option in the area. Lafayette, BR, and NOLA are all over an hour away. Can't do that regularly and keep a job. I know how important that can be for an area. Plus as its ranked in another poster's link, it out performs ULL.

So you want to keep the state in good standing by slashing schools to make the budget, but by doing so, cutting off education to very large areas of the state. Keeping everyone backwoods retarded because they can't afford the "full" college experience isn't the answer to making the state better. Trim fat sure, but be smart about it. Outside of two, maybe three public schools in this state, I'd say commuter students make up the majority of the other schools enrollment.

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How is that an idiotic premise?

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Because we are the only state that demands such stupidity. How can other states survive if they don't have a public college within commuting distance of every human being in the state?

How the hell do they pull it off, because I'm pretty confused about how they can do it and we can't.

We are one of the last in education yet we have more colleges per capita than any other state.

Seems that the current system isn't working, is it?

I'm not trying to Pimp Nicholls, only speaking of it from experience. I saw the school ranking from a previous link in this thread.

I'm aware many other smaller schools are going to have the same situation, that's why I'm understanding about why people may not think they should be closed. Also, realize since I know own nothing about ULM, I can't come in and say, shut it down with any intelligent reasoning. Now having a school down the street with roughly the same acceptance criteria....then I say slash it.

For starters:

LSU System Schools
-LSU at Alexandria
-LSU-Eunice

Southern U System
Southern- NO
Southern- Shreveport

UofL System
-Grambling St
- Nicholls St

I'd imagine the CC are small potatoes and may become more necessary/valuable if "major" universities are closed. But I really don't know much about them, just a guess.

raising admission standards would solve a lot of problems


raise the minimum ACT score to 22-23 across the board for four year schools and some of them would close real fast.

The graduation rates you are comparing are from 2011. The students who enrolled at Nicholls and are reflected in the statistics you posted enrolled under open admissions. Anyone with half a brain could just about get in any of the universities in Louisiana except maybe LSU. Graduation rates were bad eveywhere. Today universities have selective admissions and graduation rates are higher. Nicholls was over 40% in 2014. Not sure what it was for 2015.

I've recently met some hot arse European chicks that play sports at SUNO so they should stay open for that reason alone. How they ended up there I have no idea

Close SELU? One of the best nursing and education programs in the state. One of the higher graduation rates from start to finish. One that is almost self sufficient. One that is listed as one of the top 5, 4 year public universities in the state?


Really?

And what is your basis on closing it?

Unfortunately you cannot just move programs to other schools and just make them work.

I guess you missed the part that stated SELU is almost self sufficient due to its financial efficiency.

Because you don't just move a program taken over by a different group of faculty and it remains the same quality.