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re: Nicholls considering temporary closure
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:16 pm to tigersownall
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:16 pm to tigersownall
Another reason Nichols won't close. They just put up a new culinary building. They are spending 5 million on the baseball stadium as we discuss this. Now where the state got that money from is beyond me.
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Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:17 pm to tigersownall
John Folse culinary school?
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:19 pm to tigersownall
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Another reason Nichols won't close. They just put up a new culinary building.
I certainly don't know the answer for closing/combining schools, but why the hell does someone need a 4 year college for a culinary degree?
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:40 pm to tigersownall
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Another reason Nichols won't close. They just put up a new culinary building. They are spending 5 million on the baseball stadium as we discuss this. Now where the state got that money from is beyond me.
McNeese is supposed to break ground on a 30 million dollar basketball arena. Not sure if that's still happening.
This post was edited on 2/15/16 at 2:41 pm
Posted on 2/15/16 at 2:43 pm to tunechi
Nicholls should close permanently.
So should SUNO
So should SUNO
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:12 pm to Stateguy
I believe culinary is only 2 years
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:14 pm to Hammertime
I'm not reading the whole thing, but is this turning into a XXX school should close circle-jerk or has it stayed on topic about Nicholls?
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:24 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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You're not just shifting students, you're affecting the economy of any city where you closed down their university.
Too fricking bad.
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If you got rid of LSU
Pointless hypothetical is pointless.
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You're talking about the same thing in every city that houses a university.
So just let the whole fricking state suffer so a handful of small cities can get by with their university fueled economies? I don't think so. Closures need to happen. They're going to hurt the cities where they happen, but too bad. It needs to happen.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:32 pm to LNCHBOX
It's too lazy to just say "close down school A or school B". You need to be able to visualize where kids will end up and how well positioned the schools that survive are for an explosion in growth.
One thing Nicholls has going for it is it's campus has been growing like crazy for the last 20 years and still has room to grow more. Its proximity to major population centers in Louisiana is also hard to match. Call me crazy, but if they were to ever shut down UNO, I think people would be shocked at how many of those students would flock to Nicholls.
One thing Nicholls has going for it is it's campus has been growing like crazy for the last 20 years and still has room to grow more. Its proximity to major population centers in Louisiana is also hard to match. Call me crazy, but if they were to ever shut down UNO, I think people would be shocked at how many of those students would flock to Nicholls.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:39 pm to Vacherie Saint
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Call me crazy, but if they were to ever shut down UNO, I think people would be shocked at how many of those students would flock to Nicholls.
Maybe, but why shut down UNO when you can shut down Nicholls? Do you not think the opposite is true? UNO is great because it offers students the opportunity to find work after graduation in the same city they went to school. Not too many opportunities in Thibodeaux after graduating from Nicholls. It would be absurd for the largest and most populated region in the state to have no public university while Thibodeaux Louisiana has one.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:43 pm to 9BREES9
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I'm a Nicholls alum and while I'll always be partial to the school, they should focus on their Business, Culinary, Nursing, and Education schools. Those are their money makers; everything else should go.
They should move the culinary program to UNO-saying most of their graduates end up there following college.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:46 pm to ellishughtiger
I thought this said Nicholson and was worried for a second
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:47 pm to UpToPar
Never understood why anyone not from the Thib area would want to go to Nicholls. The only reason I'd think they would actually want to go ther would be to stay home. That's the school of all the ones named that is a no brained for me.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:47 pm to GreenTrout
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1.) Move the UNO engineering program to SLU
2.) Close UNO
It really isn't that hard. Yeah UNO may have more programs, or be in a better location(unless a storm hits and it goes under water) but SLU is the better school.
F that. Then students would have to commute to Hammond a few days a week. UNO is fine where it is as a commuter school, many students there are non traditional students and have jobs in the city.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:55 pm to 9BREES9
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I'm a Nicholls alum and while I'll always be partial to the school, they should focus on their Business, Culinary, Nursing, and Education schools. Those are their money makers; everything else should go.
For the life of me I cannot understand why a school like Nicholls would offer some of the degrees it offers. Plenty of people pick a school based on the major their trying to obtain, so there is no shame in having a limited offering.
To be fair, Nicholls does have a fairly slim offering in the first place, but there are a few Bachelor of Arts degrees that could go IMO. I've got nothing against those type of degrees, but the University of Louisiana System and the Louisiana State University system should work to create colleges/universities that are complimentary of one another. Outside of some business, education, and STEM majors, everything else should be offered at only one or two campuses, at most.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 3:57 pm to Hammertime
Culinary is a four year program and Nichols is the only one like it within a few states. I know kids from Florida that just came to Nicholls for culinary.
It's not gonna shut down so point is moot. Many other places the state can cut funding. Probably some places you jabronies on here benefit from.
It's not gonna shut down so point is moot. Many other places the state can cut funding. Probably some places you jabronies on here benefit from.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 4:08 pm to longhorn22
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2 week closure?
Redo the syllabi to reflect the last two weeks as a directed study. Have students take an on-line final.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 4:11 pm to Hockamaw
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Sad but it would be good for the state if a lot of those UL system colleges closed. They were never supposed to be 4 year colleges anyway. Opened as JCs to feed into LSU and should have stayed that way.
Posted on 2/15/16 at 4:16 pm to ellishughtiger
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hey should move the culinary program to UNO-saying most of their graduates end up there following college.
Couldn't be further from the truth. Many intern in Nola, but do not stay. I know at least 8 people right now who are working at major country clubs across America.
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