Posted on 08/25/2016 6:15:58 AM PDT by C19fan
The University of Missouri’s (MU) flagship Columbia campus has officially lost a staggering 23 percent of its freshman class this year, an even worse figure than administrators initially predicted in the wake of major racial strife.
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and I am happy for you.
I can just see the interplay between some parents and their college bound students:
Where are you thinking of applying?
I want to go to an SEC school.
Oh, which one.
Any except Missouri.
Good.
Ghetto University; If you aren’t black or you have or had a role in enforcing rules/laws; you’re not welcome
Shouldn't have been allowed to retire with a cashout of almost $1 million for alleged health reasons. He should have been fired for cause.
There was a post yesterday about schools now segregating the AA types into their own dorms. That way, such academically-challenged students can commiserate together on whatever their "defining" trait, other than academically qualified for whatever the "institution" happens to be, and rejoice in their AA status together.
So, "diversity" for the numbers, but not in practice, as is the justification for admitting less and/or un - qualified individuals that are members of a favored minority.
That is exactly my feeling, they did not lose incoming students from the bottom tier, they lost them from the tiers above the mean. Anyone serious of going to college for academics is not going to go to a place full of distractions and controversy, unless they are planning on majoring in some social program or bomb throwing. Of course that will help to put more dead wood on the fire. It becomes a death spiral for the school as they accept more of a less qualified group. Thanks to the loan programs they will not be hurt though, as even the least qualified will be a paying seat. The only losers in this scenario are the well qualified state students who will have to go elsewhere, either out of state or to a private school where the costs will be much higher than had they attended their in state college.
University of Arkansas offers instate tuition to all states that surround it....of course you need good grades!
Go Hogs!
I agree.
Women’s Studies, Gender Theory and the like are useless.
Robust universities that teach the hard science type degrees will thrive.
Have no fear, college education is a RIGHT, at least according to liberals. So you can be sure that our betters in Washington and our local state houses will take as much money as they need from taxpayers to keep these leftist indoctrination centers going.
The funny thing is the University of Missouri just continue to try to be something they are not.
And it’s not just ‘hanging on’ to students. It’s the fall out from the students who don’t attend.
When the admissions office sees a big drop in applicants they start admitting students with lower SAT scores. With a drop of 23k applicants their average SAT scores will be much lower and their ability to attract good students gets harder. It is a downward spiral.
The basketball morons and the enabling administrators and faculty have destroyed their school.
“It’s not Black Lives Matter that cost them the students, it’s how the administration handled it that did.”
That sums it up nicely. The administration knuckled under to a very small group-——just because they are black.
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This university has abandoned its purpose. Close it.
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, FL turned away 30% of its applicants last year.
It is a private school with Tuition & Fees amounting to $33,000+ per year.
In the aviation communty it is renowned, world-wide.
[If you are a Missouri resident you are stuck going to Mizzou if you want to save on tuition.]
News for you. Missouri instate tuition will be going up, up, up. The only way liberals ‘solve’ a fiscal gap is through increased fees.
Well, we know where some of the students ended up.
“This could well be an unstoppable downward spiral. That 23% of students they lost? I’d wager a majority of them are the students with the highest moral and academic standards. What will be left in that incoming Freshman class will be too scary to even contemplate having students with values to attend.”
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I think the situation is even worse. It’s not like 23% of the typical freshman class was eliminated.
They accepted all they could and still have a 23% deficit. I’d wager about a quarter of the class actually met their usual admission standards, which don’t seem very high to begin with.
Hahahahahahahaha!!! I was hoping that would happen.
Its probably the only place that admitted them - that is, the bottom of the barrel type of student.
It would be interesting to find out the test scores and GPAs of the incoming class as compared to prior years.
As an alum, Mizzou is constantly emailing me for money.
Nope.
As much as the BLM controversy, I refuse to give when the tenured professors work about a 15-20 hour work week — a 40-hour work-week is completely foreign to them. They should get the same sabbatical as the rest of the working public (which is none).
Cut the academic staff in half and they could still teach the full curriculum.
And reduce the tuition increases which are twice the national average of monetary growth. We have the uncontrolled student loan programs to thank for that.
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