We should have new enrollment data coming out pretty soon. Will be interesting if we fell again, and if so, by how much.
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After all the bad PR recently about enrollment, do you really think she won't manipulate the numbers?!?!!! It will be something like enrollment is up 280% with students that their parents drove a blue car for 3.5 years and had blonde hair ..... Looks great but means nothing
You are absolutely correct. In business, it's called "creative accounting." She and her team of lackeys will do whatever they have to do to show an enrollment increase this year. If they don't, you can be assured that the BOT is so far in her pocket that she just doesn't have to worry about it at all...
I'm expecting a big article about how "retention of first generation college students increases" and how it's working masterfully. Pay no attention to the 10% drop in overall enrollment though
I'm not sure there is much room for creative accounting considering the data has to be reported up to the State for funding.
With COVID in the rear view, I'd expect an uptick in freshman since that seems to be what I'm seeing nationwide in articles. It will be interesting to see where we fall with transfers and advanced degrees since there was rumors that we weren't advertising those as hard as recent years. For example, I know Dr. Harper used to travel all over Asia to get kids into the MBA program, for example.
With COVID in the rear view, I'd expect an uptick in freshman since that seems to be what I'm seeing nationwide in articles. It will be interesting to see where we fall with transfers and advanced degrees since there was rumors that we weren't advertising those as hard as recent years. For example, I know Dr. Harper used to travel all over Asia to get kids into the MBA program, for example.
I have heard only 1600 incoming Freshmen. Was actually told 1599. We will see soon how far off I am later. I doubt we will have 7,000 total undergrad. She just needs to give everyone who breathes at least a C as we need the tuition money.
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DAMN! That doesn't even one of the four towers? I wonder how long before they start shutting some of the Dorm buildings?
Jeez, pretty bad. Just for number comparisons we had 2100 in 2009 (my class) and then 2,707 incoming freshmen the next year in 2010. In 2014 we had a total of 13.183 students.
razing them had zero to do with student enrollment
bent20
The Odum Level
Already or finally? They'd been talking about it since I was in school a couple decades ago.
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They were razed 2014 -- ol Dan Bradley presided over it... I don't recall him lamenting the decision, other than having to collaborate with the Debs crowd over 'not spewing ISU dust, debris on the Debs house..."
roarkemoody
The Blue Level
Class of 2018, we saw the start of the drop-off during our senior year. So sad to see the current state of campus.
roarkemoody
The Blue Level
Man I hope we are all wrong. Everything says less than 2k frosh for sure. We had over 7k in 2014!
The Statesman Towers were my favorite part of the Terre Haute skyline. They looked like "big city" buildings in my opinion. I was told by multiple people that they could have been renovated, but that the University officials thought they were "ugly" and didn't fit in with the other campus buildings. I bought a throw away camera back in the day and developed around 20 or so pics of the towers from different viewpoints. Still got them.
This photo I found on the Internet years ago has always been my favorite picture of Terre Haute. The towers really completed the skyline in this photo.
This photo I found on the Internet years ago has always been my favorite picture of Terre Haute. The towers really completed the skyline in this photo.
renovated into?? dorm space? ISU barely used them as dorms when they were BUILT as dorms -- pretty sure the original plan was to build four (4) but post-VietNam enrollment dropped to a point that only two (2) were "needed."
you're forgetting / ignoring that ISU received for "free" the former USPS/Federal Building, now Federal Hall. ISU had also recently reno'd the former Lab School, now University Hall so any needed classroom space had been replaced.
What purpose would those buildings (Statesmen Towers) serve today?
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There were numerous studies trying to find a way to reuse those towers - just wasn't feasible given the way the towers were constructed.
Something i didn't realize that i just looked up. Vincennes University enrollment in 2021 was 16,389 I could not find 22 or 23. Indiana St. Enrollment at the same time was 9459. We, or at least I always think of Vincennes as some little D2 school. Almost 7K students more than ISU at that time would be interesting to see the two compared for 2023.
What the hell does VU's enrollment have to do with ISU?
Look at Ivy Tech's enrollment... aren't THEY the largest school in the state?
My quote was to the point that people or at least I don't normally think of VU being bigger than ISU let alone by that much. IVY Tech is a different beast. Most of their people are there to take one or two classes to transfer them. Then they have more One Semester Wonders than any other school that inflates their enrollment first semester every year.