re: LSU spending 215 million to build new dorm to house 1,200 students

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Most of those facilities are for the benefit of administrators not students or academic staff.

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Well that’s just not true

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Ironically peak enrollment at LSU was 80s and 90s with about 30,000+.

I think LSU currently runs around 22-23K.

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I wish Alabamas was 23k. Way too many students, many from Yankee states.

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Well that’s just not true

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You are right but the guy he was replying to is still wrong. The majority of the new building space took out old classroom space and did in fact increase administrative space, but the bulk went to research space and in the new Taylor Hall went to a bunch of open atrium spaces. While nice and good “study” space, they are awful for teaching spaces.

Look, this isn’t an attack on LSU, because all schools are doing it, but they are spending tons of money on wasted things that should go to teaching space. Dorms are a necessity if they are going to require people to live on campus first year, but a bunch of pretty but useful spaces when you are doubling the number of students on campus is ridiculous.

Also, they have not hired enough faculty to keep up with the increase in student body size, so not enough place to teach them and not enough people to teach them well.

“Glad they leveled Kirby Smith”

Fwiw they have built three new dorms in Kirby area.. cypress hall etc.. very nice .. a few stories.. they then went over and built camellia hall where the old greenhouse where.. all new builds ..

They were suppose to then tear down or redo all the ones on the little lake over by the old greenhouse.. not sure what is going on there..

I do not understand why the would build on edge of campus toward Burbank area..

Also never understood leaving Kirby footprint as green space.. lots of room to slip one in there between the other three new dorm..

What I really do not understand is why they did not put a multi level garage on the Kirby spot for student parking..

Parkin is terrible.. I believe staff has to buy their spots ?

There has been a lot of updating on campus..

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Co-worker son who grew up in Katy went to LSU over the Texas schools. In his words after he came back from a visit before deciding, LSU has a lot of scholarship money to give to Texas students and was actively recruiting him to come from Texas. There are not enough kids coming from Louisiana schools to fill the freshman class with the quality that they want.

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No. It's not that we don't have "quality students." It's that many quality students are getting far better financial offers in other LA schools or out of state.These students all get into LSU, but they just don't choose to go there.

Well, I wouldn't want them to build it cheaply...

Just a few numbers. It was $8000 a year last year for my daughter to live in a dorm that is 57 years old on LSU’ s campus. So in about 22 years this one will be paid for.

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Also I was kind of surprised that there is almost no housing on campus for those that are moving into their sophomore year.

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That's crazy, I lived in dorms almost into my junior year around 2010. I could easily got a room that year too but found a decent apartment.

“All the core campus rounds have been closed during the day for at least 20 years”

True for public.. staff can still go in and park.. sounds like his post is saying they were changing that? op was saying something about closing and having shuttles to the outer lots..

They have done this sorta.. they have lots all the way out to then new band practice area.. next to the hot dog place on highland ( no idea how to spell it)…. Students park there and walk into campus.. they really Need to step up and get student parking fixed..

Where is this $215 mil figure from? That is a lot for 1,200 students. Say the dorm last 30 years. 215 mil divided by (1,200 x 30) is $6,000 per student per year which I guess isn't bad, but I feel like 1,200 students could be done for half of that 215 mil figure.