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re: With UNO enrollment in decline, officials plan to cut courses and adjunct professors
Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:30 pm to TheRouxGuru
Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:30 pm to TheRouxGuru
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frick UNO
went to their graduation a couple months back. It was basically a pro-palestine rally with a little graduation mixed in
There are a lot of Arabs at UNO. A well known secret is parts of westbank JP have become little Ramallah. A couple of restaurants in Harvey and Terrytown have switched to halal meat to cater to the new populace.
This post was edited on 7/27/25 at 2:53 pm
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Posted on 7/27/25 at 2:34 pm to PelicanState87
I commuted there for one year in the 80s before transferring. The standards were high at the time and the classes could be demanding. For a commuter, it was pretty fun. It sure was bustling in the union. They often had live bands behind the union on Fridays. The Sheiks drew huge crowds. The Cove was also fun.
The baseball team was a national power and even made the college World Series. Aguirre Schmidt won the Golden spikes award. The basketball team also made the NCAA with Ledell Eackles, who went on to play in the NBA
The time has come for them to shutter. But NOLA is not going anywhere.
The baseball team was a national power and even made the college World Series. Aguirre Schmidt won the Golden spikes award. The basketball team also made the NCAA with Ledell Eackles, who went on to play in the NBA
The time has come for them to shutter. But NOLA is not going anywhere.
This post was edited on 7/27/25 at 2:38 pm
Posted on 7/27/25 at 3:24 pm to saderade
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Tulane would probably be a great 4 year experience for a kid from the Northeast.
Yeah, if they like getting robbed or murdered.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 5:55 pm to meeple
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took a class each summer for 2 summers when home from my SEC college, circa 1999-2000. The place was bustling, and I enjoyed going over for an hour or two then coming back. Sad to hear it’s on the brink of shutting down .
Seems like a bad sign when a relatively major city can’t support a public, four year school
Posted on 7/27/25 at 6:30 pm to PelicanState87
Combine UNO, SUNO and Dillard and just use the UNO campus. Why have 3 colleges within 20 miles of one another
Posted on 7/27/25 at 6:33 pm to KISS ARMY
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Combine UNO, SUNO and Dillard and just use the UNO campus.
Dillard is private.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 9:22 pm to spacecitydude
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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.
This was hilarious LMAO. I believe UNO was more academically rigorous .. UNO appealed to students were more about academics vs the traditional college experience so make sensse.
Posted on 7/27/25 at 9:33 pm to chillygentilly
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I’ve lived here nearly my entire life and yeah, this is the straw that breaks the camel’s back…UNO enrollment decline
Ok, so give me 3 reasons as to why NOLA is growing as a desirable place to live and invest?
Posted on 7/27/25 at 10:51 pm to Enzos Tiny Pito
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Unfortunately UNO and their leaders did nothing to create that for their school
UNO definitely had some bad leadership but UNO actually had a huge master plan involving a secret land acquisition plan which was to turn the run-down residential area from York Street to Vermillion Blvd to Allan Toussaint to Leon C. Simon into a collegiate area (i.e. bars, restaurants, upscale student housing). The private sector involved had secured 70% of the properties prior to Katrina and then the local politicians found out about it and killed the endeavor because they were afraid of losing voters in the district so the killed the project by telling the acquisition teams they would not approve any zoning changes for the area. This was going to completely change the UNO landscape for the better. Once this project died so did UNO's chances for survival.
Of course, now Orleans Parish is projected to lose another 7.6% of its population over the next five years. Lightcast projections is projecting Orleans Parish will lose an average of 1.6-1.59% annually over the next five years of its population. 352k in 2025 to around 322k in 2030 for a net loss of 27,273 Orleans Parish residents. This is the "conservative" Lightcast projection for Orleans Parish migration loss.
If the conservative projection by Lightcast holds true then Orleans Parish will have lost almost 50k residents from 2020 to 2030.
Since 2018, the largest declines in population by age group in Orleans Parish have been:
25 to 29 year olds: -31%
30 to 34 year olds: -19%
55 to 59 year olds: -18%
Under 5 years: -18%
50 to 54 year olds: -15%
Tulane's Cowen Institute on Orleans Parish Population Loss statistics
This post was edited on 7/27/25 at 10:52 pm
Posted on 7/27/25 at 11:47 pm to MrLSU
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If the conservative projection by Lightcast holds true then Orleans Parish will have lost almost 50k residents from 2020 to 2030.
If only UNO could pull students from outside city limits…
Posted on 7/27/25 at 11:55 pm to yaboidarrell
quote:it’s been that way since before Katrina
A well known secret is parts of westbank JP have become little Ramallah.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:10 am to saderade
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Tulane would probably be a great 4 year experience for a kid from the Northeast.
Tulane has been a northeastern school situated in Orleans Parish for as long as I can recall.
It’s pretty sad, being a UNO graduate with no ties to the school other than a sheet of paper, I’m strangely going to miss the shell parking lots and sketchy grad student teachers.
UNO did have a great engineering program and a decent premedical/predental curriculum as well. I can still smell the asbestos and damp moldy air in the older buildings as I wrote this.
Can’t tell you how many times I towed some sort of boat to class on a friday morning or exam day. Glad the parking lots were extra large.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 12:25 am to OWLFAN86
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The behind-the-scenes true story of how the Alamodome got built is rather interesting involves a poker game
Details?
Posted on 7/28/25 at 4:36 am to MrLSU
I think the population decline will be much worse than people anticipate. The only growing demographics in the area are working class Hispanics and that's not enough to save NOLA. There's legit more going against the area than for it. I believe the Mississippi River is cursed ... seems like every major city on it has been declining and seen better days. Once St. George gets established, BR is pretty done for as well. Memphis is already hot garbage and will only become more hot garbage. St Louis is the same to me ... already loss two pro teams and maybe more .... I mean I never known anyone to say they want to move to or even visit St Louis
This post was edited on 7/28/25 at 4:41 am
Posted on 7/28/25 at 4:59 am to saderade
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Water is wet. Who wants to go to college in New Orleans? What a joke.Lots of people. Tulane would probably be a great 4 year experience for a kid from the Northeast.
Tulane and Xavier are doing very well.
SUNO needs to be shut down. Waste of money.
Posted on 7/28/25 at 5:49 am to spacecitydude
quote:I also found it more academically rigorous in the 80s
The irony is that UNO was more academically rigorous than LSU was in the late 90's/early 2000's
Posted on 7/28/25 at 6:20 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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Seems like a bad sign when a relatively major city can’t support a public, four year school
That is because there are way more prestigious private options in the region with Tulane, Loyola, Xavier, Dillard, Holy Cross, etc. You also have racial bias that would draw minority students to other public HBU’s like SUNO, Southern, and Grambling.
For the kids that cannot afford to go to private school, they get sucked out of the metro to schools like LSU, Nicholls, Southeastern, etc. with lower cost options for housing.
Also, for the kids that are barely passable, they get trapped by the community college system with Delgado and Nunez, and they are either taking endless remedial classes or they graduate with a certificate in a specific trade.
There is also the explosion in online colleges and degree programs that make most of the buildings for a college seem useless.
All those options are draining the potential pool of students, and you add population decline, that is a bad demographic mix for UNO unless you can market yourself and draw more outside students from the region.
It also appears UNO’s leadership never anticipated any of these changes and kept things running at full steam even as enrollment began to decline. They built up a deficit in their budget and always expected that state to bail them out.
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