July 1 - Moving Day 2024

[Purple Mav Man]

sportsvine National American University est. in 1941 as National School of Business in Rapid City, SD has never been called National University. Here's their historical timeline (click link and see right side of page). https://www.national.edu/mission-pur...ision-history/

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But you did get this part right, National University in San Diego (where I live) is a seperate school.

One day. One night. Saturday’s alright…
National American University

[crixus]

One day. One night. Saturday’s alright…
National American University

Is that their motto? LOL. Rock on brother.

[crixus]

Research paper by the Fed of Philadelphia. A lot to digest. Bottom line. It is predicted up to 80 colleges will be facing closure within the next 5 years. That is a lot, to say the least, but there have been 73 already closed, merged, etc. since March of 2020. So seems pretty realistic.

Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress

Wow! That's really bad news. A lot to digest indeed.

[Purple Mav Man]

Is that their motto? LOL. Rock on brother.

They ran their commercials during daytime tv. Not sure if they still do. YouTube them and sing the song in your head the rest of the day.

[crixus]

They ran their commercials during daytime tv. Not sure if they still do. YouTube them and sing the song in your head the rest of the day.

I believe you, but I'll stick with the Peter Tosh song that's currently bouncing around my brain. :)

https://youtu.be/q0j1mfJeNLE?si=et0XgBfDvh5p_ouo

[SW_Mustang]

Sonoma State is dropping all sports.

EDIT: Someone beat me too it a page back.

[SW_Mustang]

Is that their motto? LOL. Rock on brother.

Oh - you haven't heard "the song"? Enjoy...

(2) National American University Commercial - Early 00's [8/09/2012's Pick] - YouTube

I'm not sure if it's still the case now - but back in the day, for-profits would run ads during daytime television (obviously to target unemployed/underemployed/stay-at-home parents). Minneapolis used to be the central hub for these types of schools and since all of our stations were out of MPLS, we'd just get blasted with these all day long. Sometimes they'd run the same ad twice in one commercial block.

NAU put that one out at some point in the mid-2000's and ran with it - they might even still use it. I remember some of my classmates singing it in school. Everest had this gem of a commercial too that played all the time...

(2) Original - YouTube

It's all fun and games but the unfortunate reality is I have seen a handful of bright kids without the means to distinguish between those schools and real ones get sucked in because of the ads.

[SW_Mustang]

Research paper by the Fed of Philadelphia. A lot to digest. Bottom line. It is predicted up to 80 colleges will be facing closure within the next 5 years. That is a lot, to say the least, but there have been 73 already closed, merged, etc. since March of 2020. So seems pretty realistic.

Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress

I'll have to fully dive-in when I have the chance - but I'd be curious to know what they define as a closure/merger, and how the current trends stack up against historical averages. I think some of this is self-fulfilling prophecy (referencing the broader conversation and not just this specific study).

We've been oversaturated for so long that something had to give though.

[Bballfan]

Sonoma State is dropping all sports.

EDIT: Someone beat me too it a page back.

When you got state schools doing this....who have a lot more access to funds, you can only imagine how dire things are becoming for many private schools.

Sonoma State University to Cut Division II Athletics and Academic

[SW_Mustang]

When you got state schools doing this....who have a lot more access to funds, you can only imagine how dire things are becoming for many private schools.

Sonoma State University to Cut Division II Athletics and Academic

I once had to take a really strange class - basically selling college seniors on the benefits of being college educated and what the external threats to college education are. A lot of what was taught on that second point was "If the state would give us money, we wouldn't have a problem."

Sometimes those safety nets can quickly become an albatross. It's actually my belief that the successful schools are the ones that will learn to pull their own weight. That was a problem we had with our last administration.

[ctrabs74]

When you got state schools doing this....who have a lot more access to funds, you can only imagine how dire things are becoming for many private schools.

Sonoma State University to Cut Division II Athletics and Academic

California seems to spend lots of money on "pet projects" at the expense of their university systems.

[cneagle99]

We have two weeks until the application deadline. Is there going to be any last minute surprises or just Ferrum College and Middle Georgia State.

Shawnee State completed a feasibility study. Two conferences were considered, MEC & GLVC.

[Finchwidget]

Shawnee State completed a feasibility study. Two conferences were considered, MEC & GLVC.

Didn't know that, thanks for sharing. I found a link to the study on the consulting company's website, but it looks like they took it down. Wonder if they didn't want it leaking?

[Tech Boys]

Going to the GLVC would be brutal although it makes Indianapolis happy; 700 miles to Kansas City. This is where a firm divisional alignment makes sense. The Mississippi is the division split except the two St. Louis schools go east.

I have seen Shawnee State mentioned before. Aren't they supposed to be adding football.

[Finchwidget]

Going to the GLVC would be brutal although it makes Indianapolis happy; 700 miles to Kansas City. This is where a firm divisional alignment makes sense. The Mississippi is the division split except the two St. Louis schools go east.

I have seen Shawnee State mentioned before. Aren't they supposed to be adding football.

The GLVC would definitely be brutal. Seems like implicit confirmation that the G-MAC will never take in any public schools, because I have to imagine that that would've otherwise been in consideration as a landing spot.

They haven't announced any plans to start a football program, but they did acquire Spartan Municipal Stadium about 6 months back, which was famously the home stadium of the Detroit Lions waaaaaay back in the 1930s when they were still the Portsmouth Spartans. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?