College and the demographics cliff

They were going to drop down to Division II at the beginning of last decade, then changed their minds a couple of years into the process.

 

Is UNO public or private? Louisiana has a large number of D-I colleges for being a relatively small state.

 

Public. Every so often there is talk of merging them with Southern-New Orleans. But the politics of merging an HBCU into a “white” school always blow it up.

 

Missed this last month because as usual AL.com is running a month behind on news it is not spoon-fed. But a private HBCU chloroforms its gymnastics team after one season “after extensive deliberation and consideration of the current financial health of the institution.”

https://www.al.com/news/2024/08/ala...ogram-after-1-year-still-mad-to-this-day.html

 

The sinking ship that is Concordia (Ann Arbor) recently let its students know that if they're taking chemistry or physics classes, they have to go to Washtenaw Community College to take them. The classes will still count toward their CUAA degree. WCC is only about 1 1/2 miles from CUAA, but still ...

And, CUAA has hired an interim campus executive who worked at Adrian College, which is about 40 miles away. He'll only be on campus, though, two to three days a week for six months until a "permanent" replacement is hired.

Boy, both of those moves surrre inspire confidence in CUAA's future.

 

How does a college lose 2/3 of its enrollment in 20 years?

 

I remember Parsons College in Iowa was very popular during the Vietnam War because they would admit anyone, so even kids with horrible grades could get a deferment. The war ended, the college went defunct.

 

Ideas borrowed from the newspaper industry. What can go wrong?

 

I have to be careful because there were several private colleges I considered "fly-by-night" when I was in high school. One of them that I thought about transferring to is still going strong even now and might be going D-I in the future.

 

I’d imagine Katrina had a bit of an impact.