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[Turbine]

An online enrollment push can get that number way up... if the price is right.

[MelRock]

Every 1,000 students brings in a million dollars to the university. It is imperative that we get the enrollment up.

[CrazyCajun]

The point I’m making is our undergraduate enrollment had dipped, the last 5-8 years, to the smallest it has been since we first ended open enrollment. We currently have roughly 16,500 students enrolled, 2500 of those are graduate students.

It has been stated on multiple occasions that we need to be around 20,000 undergraduate students in order to close on some budget shortfalls. We aren’t close to that.

For all of the progress we’ve made academically and athletically, we’ve taken bigger steps back. Something’s are out of the control of the university, but the majority of it is. Incompetence and a lack of accountability are the cause.

Not arguing any of that but comparing us to the states, cities, the political climate in those areas and schools isn’t fishing in the same pond.

[Grantvb]

The size of the cities are why I’ve never been a fan of the metric. We need to reach out to the 8 parishes. Cajun COUNTRY. There needs to be a marketing campaign to the west end of Acadia, the South end of st. Mary, the North Pole of Evangeline and all the way east of St. Martin.

[Grantvb]

The 8 parishes hold 641,927 people. If we could corral 1/2 of that, I'd be happy. But the university and the RCAF need to get with the business of proving representation. The mascot of this school represents this ethnic people. Need a mascot, Have a 4-piece band of Cajun/Creole musicians playing in the corner of the South endzone in front of a large boiling pot on the burner....And put a small mockup like this behind them.....

[CajunNation]

What is the difference between schools that have huge online students like Grand Canyon and Liberty, and why can't we do that here?

[Grantvb]

B/c Liberty and Grand Canyon are rumored to be diploma mills.

[CajunNation]

B/c Liberty and Grand Canyon are rumored to be diploma mills.

What is a diploma mill?

[RaginDave]

What is a diploma mill?

a place that mills out diploma's

[CajunNation]

a place that mills out diploma's

I'm serious. I hear that thrown out as the reason to not add Liberty. I hear that every time I bring up online degrees. What does it exactly mean? Are we saying that these schools are just handing out diplomas as long as the check clears? Is there not actual teaching going on in these courses?

[cajun4life]

Not arguing any of that but comparing us to the states, cities, the political climate in those areas and schools isn’t fishing in the same pond.

You think those schools don’t face political pressure from the giants in the state? Just like UCF/USF have to deal with Florida and FSU pressure?

We manufacture our own problems. It’s not 1984 any longer.

[CrazyCajun]

You think those schools don’t face political pressure from the giants in the state? Just like UCF/USF have to deal with Florida and FSU pressure?

We manufacture our own problems. It’s not 1984 any longer.

Florida and Texas arent close to as crooked as Louisiana, never have been and never will be,we wrote the book. Thats why those states arent complete ___ and have people moving there in droves.