Dr. Savoie Retiring

[Big Buds]

That fact that either a Law or Medical School is highly unlikely in our future, makes this proposition extremely unappealing.

[jaxmc1023]

This is certainly a problem with getting on campus students to the games. It simply is not convenient.

Line up half a dozen parade-style floats on Rex Street on gameday and make it a mini-parade from campus to the stadium.

Park them behind Blackham until the game is over, then pick students up at Bourgeois or even Blackham, and bring them back.

If you get a few hundred students to 'parade' over there without a car, they might actually stay for the game. And 300 students would be 10x what we usually have.

[Big Buds]

That fact that either a Law or Medical School is highly unlikely in our future, makes this proposition extremely unappealing.

[CajunNation]

It’s one thing to be dismissive of the importance of admissions standards if you have a track record of producing graduates at a high rate. You know when you can tangibly show that most of the people you’re letting in to college based on the notion that, “they just aren’t a good test taker” are actually succeeding in the environment that you’ve told them is a fit for them. If that is NOT the case and you are propping up your enrollment numbers with students who will struggle mightily in college, you have crossed the line in to thievery and done so in the name of inclusivity as a cowardly way of hiding your greed. Take a look at our 4 year and 6 year graduation rates compared to the peers we’ve supposedly left in the dust. Draw your own conclusions. IMO we are puffing our chests out a little bit too much about the money we throw at research.

Right on the money Admiral!

[Sonsissymia]

"Admissions standards."

Which simply mean, how did you do in your grades, and on the ACT or the SAT?

Those in turn predict exactly one, and only one, thing. They predict how you will do when you take tests.

You can look at the leaders in any industry, including leaders across UL, and most of them did not have great grades or scores.

On the other hand I have worked with a number of people, some of them MDs, with impeccable scores. And they were morons.

"Standards" are, too often, simply ways to sniff at those who didn't get in.

The way we use them now, they're not of much use.

man, i deposed a good number of them over the years.

[CajunVic]

man, i deposed a good number of them over the years.

MD's - morons - or both . . .

[BeauCajun]

man, i deposed a good number of them over the years.

I’ve disposed a few also.

[CAJUNSby90]

Oh ____ Vic is back. Just needed to hear word dispose and he came running.

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[Turbine]

I just can't get over how I accidentally bumped into Dr Savoie when he was just a few weeks into his new job as President of Louisiana .... and didn't cross paths again for his entire tenure and then accidentally bumped into him again his last week on the job.

Minute or so conversation each time.