Does anyone have the enrollment figures for fall 2007 yet? I thought they were supposed to come out yesterday.
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Does anyone have the enrollment figures for fall 2007 yet? I thought they were supposed to come out yesterday.
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Lovely Wendie99
Last edited by LT; 05-05-2011 at 01:00 AM.
every uls schools enrollment has gone down this year, i wondered if ours was as wellOriginally Posted by LT
We are normally a couple of weeks behind on our enrollment report. The story that came out last week did not mention Tech being down so that led me to believe that we must be up by a little.:icon_wink: Surely you wouldn't expect the News-Star to write a story that said "every school except Louisiana Tech" was down. For evidence of the reporting tactics read this from yesterday...http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs...37/1002/NEWS17
I was on campus Wednesday visiting with various Tech employees and the word I was hearing is that enrollment is down. No mention of the actual enrollment number.
Uuummm?!?!?!
Louisiana Tech receives a $1 million dollar check and they write one paragragh about it.
ULM gets $80K and they write ............... this?Savoie's first stop was Tech, where he presented matching funds for a $1 million chair and three professorships: the Adelaide Murdoch Hunt Endowed Professorship in human ecology, the Harrelson Family Endowed Professorship in engineering and the Patricia Garland Endowed Professorship for the College of Business.
"It's always a good thing when Dr. Savoie brings us money," joked ULM President James Cofer during the presentation.
Cofer warmly accepted a large $80,000 check from Savoie on the library's sixth floor. The two shook hands amid applause from donor representatives, Board of Regents officials and university administrators and faculty.
"If Louisiana is going to prepare for the future, it needs to invest in its human capital," Savoie said.
The amount represents a $40,000 contribution to each of two professorships, The Louisiana Real Estate Commission Endowed Professorship in Finance and the Capital One Endowed Professorship in Mathematics.
"We really feel it's a privilege to continue this relationship we started in 1979," said Gretchen Ezernack, LREC District IV commissioner.
In 1979, the commission established a $25,000 endowment through the university's foundation to provide scholarships for real estate financing majors.
"We've gone through a decade of significant reform," Savoie said after the ceremony as he looked back at his annual visits across the state. He cited achievements that include the establishment of community colleges and teacher education reform.
Mathematics department head Dale Magoun said the overall contribution would allow the math department more exposure in its research in algebra, statistics and differential geometry.
"It's always beneficial for students to know their teachers are engaged in research and not maintaining the status quo," Magoun said.
Finance department faculty chair Mike Parker is the inaugural holder of the other professorship. He said the contribution would greatly help the finance department, which saw a 55 percent jump in majors over the past academic year. He said the money would go toward new reference materials for company research and toward graduate student research.
The official count that the state uses is the total on the 14th day of classes, not sure precisely when that count started for Tech this year, but I believe that day falls this week.
Enrollment drops 5.5%.
That's a big drop. Did admissions standards go up again this year?
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs...TES01/70921010
Football sucked, basketball ball sucked, Tech generally sucked... who goes to a university when it sucks???Enrollment drops 5.5%.
That's a big drop. Did admissions standards go up again this year?
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs...TES01/70921010
Promises of greatness does not sway anyone unless there is greatness there, and there has been nothing great about Tech for the last few years... especially when promises are "broken"...
There are several, several reasons, and none of them good for Tech...
Athletics isn't the only thing that needed to be changed at Tech.
Enrollment should be UP by at least 15% next year.
I don't know about Tech but the ULS board wanted to raise enrollment standards for the system that led to a small decline across the board. I don't know if Tech was included in this because I thought Tech already surpassed the ULS enrollment suggestions.
Notice that on the Tech website even though enrollment went down, ACT and graduate numbers went UP.
But the NewsDud in Monroe made sure (due to space I'm sure) to edit those parts out of the article. Freedom of the press is a right but slander of the press is just wrong.
As stated earlier, with the improvement in our athletics, I think we will see those numbers rise.
Thanks, 9701.Enrollment drops 5.5%.
That's a big drop. Did admissions standards go up again this year?
http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs...TES01/70921010
No, admissions standards did not go up again this year. This is four years in a row of declining enrollments!
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Last edited by LT; 05-05-2011 at 01:00 AM.
DR intimated in his convocation that we may feel a bigger drop this year, because our enrollment last year was bolstered by hurricane evacuees. He also said that the population of NORTH Louisiana is declining (anybody else heard that), citing it as one of many factors we are struggling against.
On the other hand, our ratio of graduate to undergraduate students continues to be impressive.
In the Baton Rouge paper, the LSU administrators bragged about their 4% drop in enrollment as a good thing - saying they had too many students. Guess it is all in how you look at it.
Also, remember that enrollment should drop each year, for about 4 years, after the implementation of the higher admissions standards. It will take 4 or 5 years for the full effect of the higher admissions standards to be realized. A more accurate stat would be the change in the number of enrolled freshman this year compared with last year's number.
Its time for Tech to learn something about marketing (check with Oaks) and recruiting students, if the population of elgible students in the local area is declining, expand your area and recruit.
What are the entrance standards? What are the stats on North Louisiana high school students? How many are qualified? We talk like our entrance requirements are a significant hurdle, but I am wondering what's really going on.
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