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More specifically, keep the "teaching" hospitals. The "charity system hospitals" should go away. Every "non-profit" hospital/hospital service district/critical access hospital/PPS hospital in the state provides charity care and has a charity policy and sliding fee scale policy in place to govern it...though most of them need significant tweeting.
*edit: "tweeting" is apparently the new autocorrect form of "tweaking." And I appreciate it not changing to "twerking."
Last edited by RhythmDawg; 04-23-2014 at 07:26 PM.
I would merge:Originally Posted by dawg80
ULL and McNeese (boy, wouldn't they fight that!)
SUNO shut down
UNO merge with some of the junior colleges and small colleges in New Orleans (Delgato, etc..)
All the satellite campuses of lsu should be shut down or merged with a nearby university
Make Northwestern a music and arts school (re-named Northwestern School of Arts)
Make ULM a Pharmacy school (re-named Louisiana Monroe School of Pharmacy)
Keep Southeastern - just because I can't figure out what else to do with them and they are large.
The HBCU's are difficult and we have to acknowledge that. It is political suicide to close them down completely. Put Grambling with Tech and Southern with lsu, but let them keep their name. In other words, merge but have a campus. No President, but a Dean that serves under the President of Tech and lsu. Merge the rest of the administration. The diploma would state:
"Grambling University"
a division of Louisiana Tech University
Sports and bands would be a problem, unless we could get REAL creative and let them keep those. There are ways....
BAD BAD BAD idea, Grambling has protection and gets away with things that if Tech were responsible for them would result in major fines and/or losing accreditation. I've heard horror stories of what state auditors have found (or haven't been able to find) there and they were basically told to downplay it because it was Grambling... No thank you let them keep on trucking, we'll take LSUS and LSUSHSC and move along.
Well, obviously, with the administration at Tech, they wouldn't be doing that anymore. They couldn't. It would cut out all the waste.
BAD BAD BAD idea, Grambling has protection and gets away with things that if Tech were responsible for them would result in major fines and/or losing accreditation. I've heard horror stories of what state auditors have found (or haven't been able to find) there and they were basically told to downplay it because it was Grambling... No thank you let them keep on trucking, we'll take LSUS and LSUSHSC and move along.
Yes, when I stated that all the lsu satellite's need to be merged or shut down, that would mean lsus and lsuHSC with Tech.
One administration and several campuses with a Dean. All administration centralized at Tech.
You're saying they should spend a lot of time on Twitter? :icon_wink:
thank you sir.
They do in fact spend too much time on it, and Facebook, and general surfing.
Is Louisiana Tech in a better or worse position to execute its mission after facing budget cut after budget cut?
I think there are about 12 folks that are pro-Jindal in the boot. Nice to see one show up in this thread.
Better, compared to our competition ULM, ULL and LSUx's were staying fat and happy at the state hog-trough, not so much now that they're expected to perform and have worthwhile results. Meanwhile Tech has taken full advantage of the new legislation and while yes the leaner budget has been tough we were prepared and are leaner & meaner.
It's funny cause most on here were pro-Jindal when he came in and even when he got re-elected; he's done more for business in this state trying to stop the brain/money-drain to Houston/Dallas.
It's time to close the doors to the Temple of Janus.
More needs to be said.
I notice, generally speaking, the private schools out-perform public ones. There's a revelation for ya......NOT! The private sector trumps gov-mint run entities.
Abolish or diminish funding to Tech? I hope not!
I don't think you can make that argument based on that graph. It seems to me that graph would say that private schools do a better job of recruiting students with higher ACT scores. Or maybe you could say that private schools do a better job of not letting in students with low ACT scores.the private schools out-perform public ones.
All it confirms is that schools with complete or partial selective admissions will almost always report higher average standardized test scores for incoming students than those with limited or no selective admissions.
ACT scores aren't a measure of the academic performance of colleges or universities.
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