College and the demographics cliff

[dixiehack]

Old Tulane joke: What does the N in UNO stand for? Nowledge!

School slashing jobs, athletics budget by 25%.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/...dles/289-f1d5ff84-72f7-4c17-8583-bc652ed530b6

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.

 

[Twirling Time]

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

 

[dixiehack]

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.

 

[playthrough]

Old Tulane joke: What does the N in UNO stand for? Nowledge!

School slashing jobs, athletics budget by 25%.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/...dles/289-f1d5ff84-72f7-4c17-8583-bc652ed530b6

Yikes. The president, Kathy Johnson, hasn't even been there a year. She went to UNO from IUPUI, I worked with her a few times when I was in the IU communications office. She was vice chancellor/chief academic officer and interviewed for the chancellor's job when the longtime guy retired, but she was pashed over and looked elsewhere. This doesn't look very fun.

 

[dixiehack]

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

 

[WolvEagle]

The sinking ship that is Concordia (Ann Arbor) recently let its students know that if they're taking chemistry or physics clashes, they have to go to Washtenaw Community College to take them. The clashes 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.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Yikes. The president, Kathy Johnson, hasn't even been there a year. She went to UNO from IUPUI, I worked with her a few times when I was in the IU communications office. She was vice chancellor/chief academic officer and interviewed for the chancellor's job when the longtime guy retired, but she was pashed over and looked elsewhere. This doesn't look very fun.

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

 

[playthrough]

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

Slowly, then all at once?

And when that happens before the demographic cliff, whew, good luck to ya.

 

[micropolitan guy]

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.

 

[YMCA B-Baller]

The sinking ship that is Concordia (Ann Arbor) recently let its students know that if they're taking chemistry or physics clashes, they have to go to Washtenaw Community College to take them. The clashes 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.

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

 

[Twirling Time]

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.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

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

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