re: Why is Nicholls a thing?

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They serve black folks.

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so do all the other colleges in the state, not sure if you've heard

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There’s a ton of history in HBCU’s.

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so its OK they largely suck at what they're intended to do and drain much needed tax dollars...you get a pass for having history

Serious question, does Louisiana high schools offer college credits while in high school? Many kids here in Texas (at the better schools) graduate high school with an associate's degree.

Isn't that where kids who flunk out of LSU go to get the GPA back up ?

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Serious question, does Louisiana high schools offer college credits while in high school? Many kids here in Texas (at the better schools) graduate high school with an associate's degree

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Yes. From my understanding there are two basic versions.

One is called Dual Enrollment, and is done by some districts in conjunction with a university. The person who teaches it has to undergo training and approval by the university. The credit for these courses apply to the university as long as they mesh with classes accepted for your major. My son had classes that put him well into his sophomore year of college, snd I know of a couple of kids who had even more.

There is another version called Advanced Placement. I don't know as much about that, but I think it just lets you take tests for some college credit.

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Maybe in the 70’s and 80’s. We’re not as sheltered as we used to be. We got electricity and all now, Mrs. Fancy city lady

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You'd be shocked how many small town Louisiana kids couldn't cut (nor necessarily wanted to) at LSU for more than 1/2 semesters when I started there in 2012.

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UL is closer to the size of smaller SEC schools than Nicholls or MSU

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I was just kidding, dude. I've got nothing against ULL. It just seemed strange to me that people were using geographic proximity as an argument to close some schools while ignoring one that is right smack between two other schools.

Personally, I think that some of the smaller universities serve a good purpose in promoting higher education to people that could not or would not go to a school where they had to get a dorm, apartment, meal plan, food budget etc. It just seems ultra flippant to say, well if you can't go to LSU, maybe you shouldn't go to college at all. Would that really improve the state? I don't think so.

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Louisiana has 173 college campuses
Massachusetts has 211
Florida 439
California 1243
Connecticut 114
Illinois 391
District of Columbia 33

Doesn't seem like Louisiana has too many compared to other states. Some smaller

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lol

you included private universities

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It's really not as bad as people make it seem. LA has 28 4 year universities, and is basically right in the middle of the US rankings for 4 year universities per capita.

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Where do we rank for public 4 year universities per capita?

Where do we rank on handling that budget?

Where do we rank on the returns from those 4 year universities with graduation rates?


Those are the numbers that matter

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Serious question, does Louisiana high schools offer college credits while in high school? Many kids here in Texas (at the better schools) graduate high school with an associate's degree.

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Yes they do, but it's not nearly as good as what Texas does.

It was actually an issue in this year's legislative session, there was a bill that would have provided that every student (maybe limited to seniors, i don't recall) could take two dual enrollment classes for free. A big part of the issue has been that in most school districts, in order to take dual enrollment, you had to pay some money, and a lot of kids in public schools here could not afford that.

In typical LA fashion, the bill was amended to just set up a study group to study the issue and report back in a couple of years.