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re: 99 colleges have closed permanently in the past year
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:27 am to Traffic Circle
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:27 am to Traffic Circle
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LSU in BR has record enrollment for Fall, 2024
Interesting. I wonder how many are from out of state
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The freshman class is 62.2% female
This post was edited on 9/26/24 at 9:30 am
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Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:32 am to Kafka
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if you really want a civil war, that's the way to start one
LOL. It's going to happen. Not all of them of course, but they are among the lowest performing and also in the poorest financial shape.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:34 am to danilo
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Southern Baton Rouge, Southern New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana, Dillard University, Grambling Xavier and Dillard are private though
Is Southern Shreveport not a HBCU or is it just that forgettable?
From driving around all over the state I noticed a while back, it seems like EVERY parish has a college of some sort. Just think about all those little speed trap towns. They all have some regional or vo-tech at least. The system is so watered down the “value” of these little podunk places has to be a negative figure.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:36 am to Traffic Circle
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In other news, LSU in BR has record enrollment for Fall, 2024
Big southern universities are as healthy as they have ever been. Parents from all over the country are sending their kids to the south to escape liberal indoctrination and wokeness.
Sure, it exists some in the south, but is a fraction of what it is up north. Covid really opened a lot of eyes.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:43 am to TechBullDawg
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Tech should be only 4 year public school in North LA. Keep NSU. Keep McNeese. Obviously keep LSU. Keep SLU.
Convert some others to 2 year schools, funneled to closest 4 year school. Close the rest. Consolidate 4 year schools to one administration.
ULM should stay open, but do a major downsize into mainly a nursing and pharmacy school, with perhaps some other specialties.
Grambling and Southern-Shreveport should close. LSUS should convert to a community college, or have only a very few specific majors.
The college/university system in Louisiana needs a major overhaul.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:45 am to DesScorp
Two have recently closed in Alabama -- Birmingham-Southern and Judson. Birmingham-Southern was just a clear case of mismanagement over a couple of decades. Shouldn't have happened since it was a good school with many wealthy alumni. Don't know the specifics about Judson other than it was a very small, all-female, Baptist School in the middle of nowhere.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:55 am to Icansee4miles
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Bobby Jindal proposed combining SUNO with UNO
That was his mistake. He should've just choked them out financially. Cut their funding and just let them die on the vine. You can't make an announcement like that.
You have to just gradually kill them over time.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 9:58 am to Sidicous
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Is Southern Shreveport not a HBCU or is it just that forgettable?
Have lived in Louisiana for 35 years and never heard of it
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:00 am to DesScorp
It’s a start.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:01 am to DesScorp
there is a giant number of small private colleges - d3 and naia that cater to rich people with kids that want to play "college" sports but aren't good enough to play at legitimate schools...they are super expensive and then they say we'll give you a huge percentage off to play sports at the school...my kid got contacted by several for lacrosse - looking into the school and 80% plus of students were athletes and graduation rates were sub 15%
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:02 am to Bjorn Cyborg
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The college/university system in Louisiana needs a major overhaul.
Which won’t happen because the legislature will raise holy hell. It’s a jobs program to various parishes across the state.
While we need the Two Bobs to come in and identify what each school is good at to determine what should be kept, a bunch of schools like SUNO and Grambling would get the “What exactly do you do here?” talk and then racism accusations.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:03 am to danilo
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Have lived in Louisiana for 35 years and never heard of it
A quick search shows it is just a 2year program campus. Lots of associate degree programs.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:03 am to Sidicous
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Is Southern Shreveport not a HBCU or is it just that forgettable?
It is technically, but it's only a two-year school.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:12 am to DesScorp
I really want to start a high-end trade school. An Ivy League version of trade school. Best of the best.
It won't make money for years, but eventually it will be the go-to option when the college degree bubble bursts and we are an established trade school with a great reputation.
Carpentry, automotive, electrical, plumbing, etc.
It won't make money for years, but eventually it will be the go-to option when the college degree bubble bursts and we are an established trade school with a great reputation.
Carpentry, automotive, electrical, plumbing, etc.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:21 am to DesScorp
Oh no!!!! Not Presentation College in South Dakota or Iowa Wesleyan!!!! Bring them back!!!!
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:23 am to DesScorp
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The King’s College in New York
a girl from our school went there. it closed down the semester before she graduated.
she had to finish online to get her diploma, but it was the last graduating class.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 10:39 am to 610man
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stupid take...uno before any HBCU
Do you SUNO bro?
Show me where southern or gambling outperform UNO in anything. Any standardized test.
LSAT scores.
MCAT scores.
Etc etc
Even private like Xavier barely stays accredited with their marquee Pharmacy program.
GTFO
HBCUs cannot compete on a level field.
They should be shuttered.
Waste of money.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 11:16 am to A Menace to Sobriety
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Oh no!!!! Not Presentation College in South Dakota or Iowa Wesleyan!!!! Bring them back!!!!
Funny you mentioned Iowa Wesleyan. It reminded me of an article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education a couple of months back. That was one of the schools that, as a result of their closure, their assets were taken over by the USDA. Why the USDA? Because the school applied for a Community Facilities Direct Loan & Grant Program offered through that department. Colleges in rural areas could apply for a loan from the US government to do things like build a new student activity center or a new dormitory, or renovate currently existing buildings on their campus. However, if the school defaulted on the loan or closed up then the USDA assumes ownership of the campus. Not just the part that was used for the loan, but all of campus.
Under this program, about half of the $2.2 billion given to colleges and universities were to colleges in the Great Lakes and Southeast regions. Iowa Wesleyan received $26 million in 2016 under this program, even after major cuts to programs, faculty, and operations in 2014. The enrollment numbers didn't get better, they kept operating at a loss year after year, and finally closed their doors within the past 12 months. As a result, the USDA took responsibility of the physical campus. Recently a large portion was sold off to a local school district for $1.25 million.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 11:20 am to DesScorp
I was in grad courses at UNO, and the environment there is so much different than it was years ago.
UNO was doing everything it can to keep people in school and paying. Their total enrollment was a little more than half what it was pre-Katrina.
30+ years ago, universities didn’t care if you flunked out. There were people on a wait list to get in.
Posted on 9/26/24 at 11:58 am to SmogkDeizKnutz
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Here is an idea. Do away with a all schooling after high school.
Replace those degrees with actual certificates and licenses that are provided through certified employers that train students to employees under a training contract that extends into a work contract for repayment.
so engineers, doctors, lawyers should learn from an employer?
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