Originally posted by Fightingscot82
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In all honesty, if enrollment continues to plummet, I think it's only a matter of time that legislators start challenging IUP's immunity. So IUP may be the main hub but not the main campus or entity.
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Originally posted by IUPNation View Post
That would be like giving cancer to IUP.
Why should IUP throw them
a lifeline?
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Originally posted by iupgroundhog View Post
I have never thought that the goals of the Western merger were to grow solvent and self-sustaining universities. That's not going to happen. The purpose is much closer to managing the demise of the schools.
This is after one year. Where will it all go? Who knows?
I will say that the realignment of the academic schools is similar to IUP's structure. I have no idea if it is possible but I would be in favor of PennWest merging with IUP (with IUP as the parent school). I am biased, of course, but I think it would be one viable outcome in Western PA.
Why should IUP throw them
a lifeline?
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Originally posted by iupgroundhog View Post
I have never thought that the goals of the Western merger were to grow solvent and self-sustaining universities. That's not going to happen. The purpose is much closer to managing the demise of the schools.
This is after one year. Where will it all go? Who knows?
I will say that the realignment of the academic schools is similar to IUP's structure. I have no idea if it is possible but I would be in favor of PennWest merging with IUP (with IUP as the parent school). I am biased, of course, but I think it would be one viable outcome in Western PA.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View Post
I don't think their standard is any different. It usually takes 2-3 semesters of "failing" grades (below 2.0 GPA) to get academically suspended. Sometimes they'll even provide some advisement on courses to take at a community college to help get their GPA up. Sometimes they'll even make agreements to readmit the student if they get a certain GPA at the community college. I have seen kids readmitted who had less than a 1.0 GPA then took some classes at CCAC or CCBC.
Years ago when Edinboro had the first of two Ivy League snobs as President, he thought they should weed out more students. Every freshman who got below a 1.0 GPA their first semester was kicked out. That resulted in almost a $1 million revenue loss from fall to spring and was the first of several short-sighted financial decisions he ordered that hurt the school financially. This is an example why it doesn't matter how brilliant of a nuclear physicist someone is and/or they were tenured faculty at Princeton and Yale - it doesn't mean they understand how to run a university.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostRumors swirling that Penn West is on track for a massive enrollment decline as high as 20%.
They've gotta realize that you can't keep reacting (cutting to solve budget deficits) and need to start fixing (get more students). The rank and file of the admissions offices are still the same people that couldn't do well before the merger. Get them out of there.
I give the Clarion campus 2 years. They already are in default of the minimum guaranteed revenue for their dining services contract. Less than 500 living on campus.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostRumors swirling that Penn West is on track for a massive enrollment decline as high as 20%.
They've gotta realize that you can't keep reacting (cutting to solve budget deficits) and need to start fixing (get more students). The rank and file of the admissions offices are still the same people that couldn't do well before the merger. Get them out of there.
I give the Clarion campus 2 years. They already are in default of the minimum guaranteed revenue for their dining services contract. Less than 500 living on campus.
This is after one year. Where will it all go? Who knows?
I will say that the realignment of the academic schools is similar to IUP's structure. I have no idea if it is possible but I would be in favor of PennWest merging with IUP (with IUP as the parent school). I am biased, of course, but I think it would be one viable outcome in Western PA.
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Originally posted by Fightingscot82 View PostRumors swirling that Penn West is on track for a massive enrollment decline as high as 20%.
They've gotta realize that you can't keep reacting (cutting to solve budget deficits) and need to start fixing (get more students). The rank and file of the admissions offices are still the same people that couldn't do well before the merger. Get them out of there.
I give the Clarion campus 2 years. They already are in default of the minimum guaranteed revenue for their dining services contract. Less than 500 living on campus.
https://triblive.com/local/regional/...-will-save-2m/
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Rumors swirling that Penn West is on track for a massive enrollment decline as high as 20%.
They've gotta realize that you can't keep reacting (cutting to solve budget deficits) and need to start fixing (get more students). The rank and file of the admissions offices are still the same people that couldn't do well before the merger. Get them out of there.
I give the Clarion campus 2 years. They already are in default of the minimum guaranteed revenue for their dining services contract. Less than 500 living on campus.
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Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
"Free for certain people"
The somewhat more rational advocates of this may say this, but that is not what the true believers want. This kind of reminds me of the "defund the police" movement...The supposed "cooler heads" stepped in and said we REALLY don't want to defund and abolish the police, we just want to reprogram some money toward social programs...But then the real hard core of the movement stepped in and said "Yea, we said defund the police and that is EXACTLY what we want."
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Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
"Free for certain people"
The somewhat more rational advocates of this may say this, but that is not what the true believers want. This kind of reminds me of the "defund the police" movement...The supposed "cooler heads" stepped in and said we REALLY don't want to defund and abolish the police, we just want to reprogram some money toward social programs...But then the real hard core of the movement stepped in and said "Yea, we said defund the police and that is EXACTLY what we want."
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Originally posted by iupgroundhog View PostWhy emphasize developing students at CC for transfer to the state system when the state system needs enrollment? They should enroll them directly into the state universities and work with them to achieve academic success.
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