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  1. Thread: Tech Expansion

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    Yeah. Also from that article, "The direct financial benefits for ULM will be minimal." Bruno is simply hoping that by spinning out fake news that ULM has a med school will somehow boost their...
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    Not really. This school will be competing with Caribbean med schools for students. The only students who will go there are ones who can't get in to real med schools or public DO schools. They will...
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    It looks like these are our options of CIP classifications to add PhDs to count toward improving our SREB classification.

    15 Engineering Technologies and Engineering-Related Fields...
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    We need both. We need to at least double our PhDs granted and add at least 3 more doctoral degrees from different CIP categories. But we can't have more than 50% of our doctoral degrees granted in...
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    Carnegie Doctoral Universities: Includes institutions that awarded at least 20 research/scholarship doctoral degrees during the update year (this does not include professional practice doctoral-level...
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    New programs get approved by the State of Louisiana when:
    1. Startup costs are slim to none.
    2. There is workforce demand.
    3. There would be no duplication (unless you are LSU).

    Those...
  7. Thread: Tech Expansion

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    Yes. I'm talking PhDs or equivalent. That's what Tech needs to move up in the world. Professional degrees don't help us meet our ultimate goals (unless we are talking MD or JD, neither of which have...
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    Bush league is a bit too harsh, but I agree neither are real doctors. And neither carries much prestige, nor near the clout of med or law schools.

    But most importantly, neither of those...
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    Same with biomedical, nanosystems, and cyber. So what? The point is Tech is trying to grow enrollment, but Tech is losing top students in our region to other schools because we don't offer those...
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    + Air Force ROTC and aviation management. Students from Louisiana who major in aerospace engineering get in-state tuition at out-of-state colleges because no school in Louisiana offers it. We lose a...
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    Louisiana Tech School of Optometry in Shreveport was proposed as part of the merger deal a few years ago.

    The next programs I would like to see Tech add are aerospace engineering and petroleum...
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