Check back in mid-September. That's when the official numbers come out. I think it's the 10th day of classes. I think the numbers will be up.
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Check back in mid-September. That's when the official numbers come out. I think it's the 10th day of classes. I think the numbers will be up.
My wife works in the Student affairs office with the Sorority's and Fraternity's, and she said the count was just over 3,000 new freshmen ( and freshwomen for the PC sensitive people) This is up 750 or so from last year.
One complaint was that they didn't have enough classes open for all the students during orientations. We want more students we need offer more classes to accomidate the growing numbers!!
One of the pitfalls of state budget cuts. You'll see more of that in the future along with larger classrooms.Quote:
Originally Posted by CAJUN_LXA685
I think it is only up about 450-550 from last year ( i think the numbers for last fall were around 2600) but still at least a 15-20% increase in enrollment. the problem with the classes is this, to offer more classes to incoming freshman you would have to take instructors away from the higher level courses (300 & 400) to accommodate this. this in turn could severely affect the degree completion and graduation rates of the university. Having our current allotment of freshman classes filled will not adversely affect our grad rates directly but if those students continue to not be able to enroll in the lower level classes in successive semesters then it will. If we adjust gradually( and by gradually i mean meet at least 30-50% of the excess in demand from this semester by enrollment in next semester with the same number of faculty) to meet the demand for such classes we will be able to obtain a good balance of degree progression without stressing the already thin budget. By the way, we're going to go through another mid-year budget cut because the $19 million we were getting as our cut from the stimulus is gone and it isn't getting renewed.
Enrollment was 16,464 last year 2009 and if the numbers hold with an additional 700 plus freshmen then I assume we will be at approx 16,800-17,000!Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomer
Was there a final count on this Fall's enrollment and that of the other state schools????
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Enrollment at UL is at its highest since the university ended open enrollment in 1999, a UL vice president said Tuesday.
That excludes a brief enrollment spike in 2005 because of Hurricane Katrina. An official fall 2010 14th-day enrollment count puts 16,763 students on UL's campus, a 2.5 percent increase from fall 2009's enrollment of 16,361, Vice President for Enrollment Management DeWayne Bowie said.
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Jeeze, Boomer, have you got some pull or what. You ask a question on RP and you get a newspaper article written for you the next day. You should ask more questions! :ms12:Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomer
Well I am still wondering about the other schools' numbers---saw where N'Western was at a plus 2!!!! Along with the drawings of the new stadia we need to have sketches of the new campus designs for the "MALL"/"Village" look that will be incorporated with the new dorms and student union!!!!!!
Anybody see the stats for the rest of the state schools yet????
Southeastern - The total headcount for this fall, including all classifications, is 15,351 compared to last fall’s 15,160
http://www.hammondstar.com/articles/...ation/5738.txt
NW State - An increase in student retention helped Northwestern State University maintain its enrollment for the Fall 2010 semester. This fall’s enrollment of 9,244 was an increase of two students above last year’s figure of 9,242.
http://news.nsula.edu/home/article/398
Southeastern in the new UNO. I live in the top feeder parish for SLU and nobody goes there by choice. I would love to know the average age of a student at SLU. There campus would look more at home in Baghdad. Who in the world would pick to live in Hammond anyways?
Isn't UL's enrollment more than the Mississippi schools main campus??? If UL is about 17k then the main campus population I think is larger---and then you look at FIU and they will be at 65K in 10 years-----I think that they are at about 35K now!!!!!
FIU is around 44K according to their website and the charge a $176 athletic fee per semester with $87 going directly to football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boomer
44K x $87 = $3,828,000.00 per semester going just to football. Thats $7,656,000 per year for football alone. That almost equals our entire annual athletic budget. Meanwhile, we struggle with budget cuts but our legislature steadfastly refuses to allow student athletic fees. It is ridiculous that we aren't allowed to access a fee for what every other state allows schools to access a fee for. The LSU homers in the legislature do not intend for anyone other than LSU to have a successful football program. What we need is a grass roots effort by constituents of the legislators that represent the fan bases of UL, La Tech, ULM, McNeese, SLU, Nichols, NW State, Grambling, and Southern to demand that they support a bill that would allow student athletic fees. This is an issue that would help us all a lot, but the biggest difference would be made right here at UL. All we're asking for is a level playing field.Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun4life
why aren't schools in the state allowed student athletic fees? Correct me if I am wrong but didn't UNO have a campus vote for this fee to be tagged on to their semester tuition last year?
The vote failed, BTW and you have what is happening now over there.
ULS schools are not allowed a student fee, the LSU system allows student fees, but they must be voted on by the students. UNO's students did not vote for it and it caused them to drop to Division III because they could no longer fund athletics.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr. cajun
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Originally Posted by cajun4life
Thanks. Did not think that was the case .. I was wrong ..
I was told last week by the women's basketball coach at McNeese that McNeese just passed a student athletic fee of $12 per semester. So has something changed, I don't think she made this up?Quote:
Originally Posted by cajun4life
We have a $15 Athletic Improvement fee included in our tuition if that means anything.
Im a recent graduate, the students at UL already pay athletic fees. We voted and self imposed the fee increases 2 or 3 times during my 9 years there. The previous imformation about ULS not allowing student fees is incorrect.
INSURANCE $ 22.00
REG.FIXED 45.00
GEN REGI 1501.15
STU UNION 23.00
STU TECH 75.00
FIXED FEE 31.60
ENERGY FEE 48.00
STU HLTH 20.00
PARK/TRANS 25.00
RECREATION 20.00
STU UNION 55.00
ART MUSEUM 5.00
ACAD EXCEL 120.00
ATH IMPROV 15.00
BAND ASSOC 5.00
CHEERLEADR 4.00
OPER. FEE 61.20
LYCEUM 0.55
STU UNION 20.00
STU HLTH 5.00
S G A 7.50
ARTS FEE 7.00
AUX OPER 100.00
TOTAL: $ 2216.00
I think that "Athletic Improvement" fee may have been the fee to build and maintain the IPF. As I understand it that money cannot be used for anything else.Quote:
Originally Posted by nathancpike
No. It's not. UL students have not voted for an athletic fee. The IPF was built using an auxiliary funds fee. It is a loophole. The dance team practices in it to legitimize that it is an auxiliary and not an athletic facilityQuote:
Originally Posted by cjbcajun
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So why all the complaining here on this board that we don't have student athletic fees and what stops us from raising it?Quote:
Originally Posted by cjbcajun