On Being UL

[R1Letterman]

I'd put that up on billboards across the city.

Amen.

[R1Letterman]

...nation

[Cajunrunner]

Louisiana economically cannot compete with Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Maryland etc.

Two of those four states you mentioned don’t have an income tax. Mississippi is phasing out their’s.

Don’t know if that has anything to do with anything, but just felt it worth noting.

[RedTails]

Perhaps UL needs to abandon the advance in secrecy strategy. I bet not many people in a 40-mile radius of Lafayette understand the progress we have made academically. I miss CajunFun's ULToday.com website for positive news in UL academics.

Now sports...see for yourself below. Diamond sports on a tear over the weekend:

Check the home page sport section of Acadiana Advocate:
https://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/

Why do they bury Foote's UL articles on the home page?

And home page sport section (and sports subpage) of Advertiger:
https://www.theadvertiser.com/

[Cajunsmike]

Interested in hearing take of 60swerebest here. He is quite connected with the College of Engineering. He did tell me recently that students in that college are challenged to the point sports is quite secondary to them.

[Duckster]

Lafayette Parish would do well to convert one of their high schools into a magnet 'Construction' high school. You get 1/2 day of English, math, science, civics, etc. then the other half of the day you get 'shop' hours. Or specific training whereas when you graduate from high school, student can begin apprenticeship or be certified in electrical, welding, HVAC, construction, etc. After high school, more specialized training may continue at SLCC campuses via TOPS tech. Local industry might chip in to help get a education/workforce shop program like this off the ground.

[Ragin9221]

Lafayette Parish would do well to convert one of their high schools into a magnet 'Construction' high school. You get 1/2 day of English, math, science, civics, etc. then the other half of the day you get 'shop' hours. Or specific training whereas when you graduate from high school, student can begin apprenticeship or be certified in electrical, welding, HVAC, construction, etc. After high school, more specialized training may continue at SLCC campuses via TOPS tech. Local industry might chip in to help get a education/workforce shop program like this off the ground.

It should be where the poorest of the poor can go to this school for free.

IDK if you ever worked in a inner city, put all your stereo typical bs aside, and tell me when you get a job at McDonalds or Wendys and try to make it on Minimum Wage that you can make it ?

When they realize they can not support themselves on this type or jobs it is back to the streets.

This is why we need to provide apprenticeships and training in blue collar jobs that pay decent! Then they can rethink their future!!

Not directed towards you, just saying in general it needs to be separated

[Cajun Monkee]

It should be where the poorest of the poor can go to this school for free.

IDK if you ever worked in a inner city, put all your stereo typical bs aside, and tell me when you get a job at McDonalds or Wendys and try to make it on Minimum Wage that you can make it ?

When they realize they can not support themselves on this type or jobs it is back to the streets.

This is why we need to provide apprenticeships and training in blue collar jobs that pay decent! Then they can rethink their future!!

Not directed towards you, just saying in general it needs to be separated

I think Fun's original point is getting sidetracked, but...

https://www.lpssonline.com/schools/careercenter

[ZoomZoom]

It should be where the poorest of the poor can go to this school for free.

IDK if you ever worked in a inner city, put all your stereo typical bs aside, and tell me when you get a job at McDonalds or Wendys and try to make it on Minimum Wage that you can make it ?

When they realize they can not support themselves on this type or jobs it is back to the streets.

This is why we need to provide apprenticeships and training in blue collar jobs that pay decent! Then they can rethink their future!!

Not directed towards you, just saying in general it needs to be separated

Have/had 3 relatives that were in the h/s shop profession, about a century worth of combined experience. It once was a great idea.

Won’t go into great details, most shop students come from that population. And most are only there because that’s where the system dumps them. And they don’t want to be there.

To bring it back to the OP, this is something UL doesn’t need.

[Ragin9221]

This generation is different then other generation!

[CajunFun]

Interesting...thanks as always to cajun fun.

Check this part out....(though why could a prof in louisiana not do the same research?)

Louisiana is no exception. Its population is shrinking while its birth rate is declining. According to Carleton College professor Nathan Grawe, Louisiana is projected to experience a 7.5% to 15% decline in college-going students by 2029, the Public Affairs Research Council detailed in a report on falling enrollment earlier this year.

Well, I think that North Carolina, Texas, Florida, and a number of others who are far ahead of us right now, used to be in a poor competitive situation, just like we are today. How did they turn it around?

One of the things they all did was to fund higher education, and invest in quality academics.

And I don't think anyone here is going to say they can do it, but we can't.

[Cajunrunner]

One of the things they all did was to fund higher education, and invest in quality academics.

So what would that look like to you? People and groups/NGOs love to throw out that statement, yet, seems they rarely want to define what that is and how we get there.