UL at Crossroads

[Geaux]

....in addition to making McNeese, Nicholls St, SLU, and NSULA all UL (Insert City Name)

We should operate just like Texas A&M and their satellite campuses.

[HelmutVII]

I like the idea of a College of Trade under the University. Make them all UL Associate degrees.

Isn't that what SLCC does now.

[MarlinMan3]

Emily Cundiff
@emilycundiff_
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Oct 1
The City of Birmingham is spending $200,000 on UAB football tickets this season — and giving them away to residents
Council says it’s about building a fan base and boosting local support for the Blaze

[Turbine]

Emily Cundiff
@emilycundiff_
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Oct 1
The City of Birmingham is spending $200,000 on UAB football tickets this season — and giving them away to residents
Council says it’s about building a fan base and boosting local support for the Blaze

Similar (but not) to how the City of Lafayette gives the Cajundome $500,000 annually for no particular promotion, but I'm sure with the overall goal of "boosting local support."

[CajunNation]

Isn't that what SLCC does now.

Somehow, we need to take the Trade school aspect, apart from academics, over. Bring those families under the UL umbrella.

Put it another way, why can't we, as an institution, offer Trade diplomas as well as Academic diplomas?

[Turbine]

Somehow, we need to take the Trade school aspect, apart from academics, over. Bring those families under the UL umbrella.

Put it another way, why can't we, as an institution, offer Trade diplomas as well as Academic diplomas?

I agree, I don't understand why the need to either/or to the exclusion of the other.

Especially since UL did just that when it was first established as.an "Industrial Institute"

The pivot must have begun right away though, because I think it was the first Governor Foster who rolled through and declared "there's to much learning going on."

[cajunfan96]

I agree, I don't understand why the need to either/or to the exclusion of the other.

Especially since UL did just that when it was first established as.an "Industrial Institute"

The pivot must have begun right away though, because I think it was the first Governor Foster who rolled through and declared "there's to much learning going on."

You need to go back to training people on trades! People need skills, not a diploma.
Representative Troy Hebert mentioned at a talk this week that the top two jobs at the new mega center in Monroe are HVAC and Electricians!

[CajunNation]

You need to go back to training people on trades! People need skills, not a diploma.
Representative Troy Hebert mentioned at a talk this week that the top two jobs at the new mega center in Monroe are HVAC and Electricians!

YES!

The future is now. It's all about return on investment. For most high school students, their best bet is to learn a trade.

[Cajun90]

Somehow, we need to take the Trade school aspect, apart from academics, over. Bring those families under the UL umbrella.

Put it another way, why can't we, as an institution, offer Trade diplomas as well as Academic diplomas?

You absolutely don't want to do this. Let me give you an analogy. Take a Formula One car, driver and pit crew and ask them to show up at your son's go-cart racetrack for the big race and help out. What do you think would happen??

Same thing here. You don't want the people managing PHd programs also being responsible for 2 year associates degrees in a trade. It will not work. In fact it is already proven. Once the "trade schools" started converting to Jr. Colleges to feed the four year programs the emphasis on the trades has declined. Trust me I try to hire from them and the quality of education under most circumstances is suspect. Often times they are teaching technology that was left in the dust a decade ago.

Not to mention the kids who are going for a trade skill would never fork over the same type of money as those pursuing a four year degree.

[CajunNation]

First, there would have to be separate pricing for Trade programs versus any Academic degree.

Second, I wouldn't want our current Deans and Admin running a Trade college either.