re: With UNO enrollment in decline, officials plan to cut courses and adjunct professors

TOPS admission standards Katrina poor leadership shift of population to Northshore have all contributed to UNOs enrollment decline. I do think shifting to LSU system will help and narrowing focus of degree programs. UNO alumni need to step up also. If they could ever get a big donor to fund a football program, it would help install some pride in the school. They could play in the conference with Nicholls and SLU. Master P has brought some good players to basketball program. They will win some games this year

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Wait, Louisiana is getting a 4th med school?

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LA has even more than that. LSU alone has a med school both in New Orleans and Shreveport.

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The result is that they have a school that's kind of dumpy where no one feels like it's a part of them. That's how you have every Nola kid who wants to actually have a college experience leave to go elsewhere. SELA even feels like a realish experience. Unfortunately UNO and their leaders did nothing to create that for their school

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100% accurate. I spent 3 GLORIOUS years at LSU and had dick to show for it, other than a bloated liver and some great drinking stories (GD, I loved my time at LSU). Went to UNO (LSUNO back then) to graduate.

LSU was a picturesque, glorious representation of the south that made students feel like they were some place special.

UNO was like a Russian labor camp with 1960's era buildings that were decrepit 25 years ago when I was there. You drove to campus, went to class, and then got the f out. Zero campus life, zero feeling like you were in college. The one dorm was pretty much Angola East, and the Greeks had to sit at tables in the student cafeteria to hang out. In the words of Donald Trump, sad.

I loved every minute at LSU (until they suggested I leave) and hated -- HATED -- every minute at UNO.

The irony is that UNO was more academically rigorous than LSU was in the late 90's/early 2000's, but it fell off a cliff when it went from the LSU system to the UL system.

SO they are finally being forced by circumstance to drop some useless courses?

Every school in the country should do a cost benefit analysis on every course/major they have and cut the ones that are not worth what they charge.

My freshman year was at UNO, HATED IT!!!

looked at my GPA and options, decided to enlist so I could go to college where I wanted to on the GI Bill. Two years later, came to LSU and got off academic probation in my first semester there and continued to improve my GPA until I graduated.

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What I want to know is how is the housing market so expensive if it has lost 35-40% of its population the last 60 years.

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Crime.

The areas that are actually livable are small with limited houses. People are sectioned off into “safe” areas, while there are thousands of empty units in crime-ridden shitholes.

NOLA still has great food and music.

What should have happened was a gradual and downsizing of the university. As people leave or retire you modify and change the curriculum. You can remove majors as faculty retire and leave but maintain the courses with fewer faculty. Let's a major with not a lot of students has four professors. If one or two retire you gradually downsize and make the major a minor or just offer general education and support courses for other majors. Let's say physics is a smaller major (it is on average nationally). And it's expensive. So keep offering physics classes for general education and for other majors that need them and allow faculty and staff to leave and retire. You gradually shrink the university without firing people and you have time to do things differently and humanely without freaking people out.

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Stop offering degree programs that will get students absolutely nothing but a sheet of paper with their names on it

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lol then all colleges need to close

Everyone has always hated UNO, the Tulane-Loyola-Xavier people fought it for years. Looks like they may get what they want. NOLA rich wanting working class to stay uneducated, or go off somewhere else and not come back.

Funny how things don’t change.

Sad to see. It’s one of only a handful of colleges that offer a degree in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering also the only tow tank in the south. Will be a big loss hopefully that program will be picked up by a more stable institution.

Graduated from there in 2005