ISU spring enrollment dips below 8,000
Indiana State University's spring 2023 enrollment is 7,834 students, down 8.3% from spring 2022, according to university data released late Friday afternoon.
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Curtis is doing a great job. Cue the excuses in three…two…one…
I'm sure you're full of answers.
Here are two issues for you to address:
"Indiana’s college-going rate as well as number of high school graduates is declining."
"Fewer low income and underrepresented students returned to or started college following the pandemic. Many in the broader public have once again begun to question the value of a college education."
Here's the article from a year ago.
You have to wonder when the red flags will start going up among the big shots at ISU. I don't think you can blame COVID anymore either. COVID (the BS lockdowns, mandates, etc) is over. ISU has a bigger problem and they need to figure out what it is.
Indiana State University’s spring enrollment has dropped 25 percent since 2019
Indiana State Universitys spring enrollment has fallen nearly 25% since 2019, a drop school officials blame in part on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
www.wfyi.org
You have to wonder when the red flags will start going up among the big shots at ISU. I don't think you can blame COVID anymore either. COVID (the BS lockdowns, mandates, etc) is over. ISU has a bigger problem and they need to figure out what it is.
I taught at ISU morr than 30 years and served as a Chairperson for ten years. I vould have much to say but i will say little. I served as a leader on many community organizations in my time here. For exsmple. Chair of the Clothe A Child for the Noon Optimist Club. Founder of the Ryves Community Optimist club. Educstion Committe of the Greater Terre Haute NAACP .... even got support and brought the STATE NAACP convention here held in the School of Business, Grand Knight of the Mother Theodor Knights of Columbus Council. Regular lector at Catholic Mass. And other activities. I did it because i wanted to be involved with the community. Although i am from New York State and moved here as a tenured professor from.Mississippi State University i felt it important to be an active member of our community. However, except for my first dozen orvso years here i.never felt university leaders ever promoted these close ties with community. None of these activities ever factored into any evaluations that i had undergone. I.did not feel loyalty to community waa ever in any of my evaluations. We needed to work hand in hand with our community to.move forward. But we did not actively promote that.
I bled ISU Blue until they bled it out of me. Not only did i contribute and had season tickets to.mens basketball for 30 plus years i was one of the few having season tickets to football all of that time. When i lectored in church i sometimes proudly wore my Indiana State sweatshirt to show where i was from.
I haveva soured taste in my mouth after devoting much of my life to the university. I assure you that there are many retired faculty who feel like i do. They do not understand customer service. They do not understand Deming's principles of Total Quality Manament. Yet my daughter proudly graduated from.here. My wife earned her doctorate from.here. They now publish a book for retirees with phone numbers and addresses and minimum spouse information. I made a request to list my wife as Dr. as ahe earned her Ph
D. from ISU. I was told that could not be done as the decision was made not to.list any title for any spouse. What would have been the cost? What is the rationale? Many of my retired friends have moved from the city upon retiring. Years of loyalty did not seem to be appreciated and they felt no attachment. I still have no real idea why Prettyman had such disdain for Jim Wiedie. Jim was a real asset and i knew him well. He was committed. I thought Smith was a very good announcer at out basketball games and was very loyal to the university. But after several years he was dismissed without fanfare. Perhaps this was not the place for.me to write this but i truly felt the decline in attendance would eventually hit with the disregard for TQM principles. I did not get rich teaching and came from a blue collar background and yet some years donated a few thousand to the athletic fund to now not doing much more than buying the soecial ISU license plate ... AA31 as i was one of the first to purchase one. I am saddened with the decrease in enrollment from a university that i devoted much of my life to and tried hard to promote.
I bled ISU Blue until they bled it out of me. Not only did i contribute and had season tickets to.mens basketball for 30 plus years i was one of the few having season tickets to football all of that time. When i lectored in church i sometimes proudly wore my Indiana State sweatshirt to show where i was from.
I haveva soured taste in my mouth after devoting much of my life to the university. I assure you that there are many retired faculty who feel like i do. They do not understand customer service. They do not understand Deming's principles of Total Quality Manament. Yet my daughter proudly graduated from.here. My wife earned her doctorate from.here. They now publish a book for retirees with phone numbers and addresses and minimum spouse information. I made a request to list my wife as Dr. as ahe earned her Ph
D. from ISU. I was told that could not be done as the decision was made not to.list any title for any spouse. What would have been the cost? What is the rationale? Many of my retired friends have moved from the city upon retiring. Years of loyalty did not seem to be appreciated and they felt no attachment. I still have no real idea why Prettyman had such disdain for Jim Wiedie. Jim was a real asset and i knew him well. He was committed. I thought Smith was a very good announcer at out basketball games and was very loyal to the university. But after several years he was dismissed without fanfare. Perhaps this was not the place for.me to write this but i truly felt the decline in attendance would eventually hit with the disregard for TQM principles. I did not get rich teaching and came from a blue collar background and yet some years donated a few thousand to the athletic fund to now not doing much more than buying the soecial ISU license plate ... AA31 as i was one of the first to purchase one. I am saddened with the decrease in enrollment from a university that i devoted much of my life to and tried hard to promote.
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Yeah ... i got carried away ...If this was a little… What is a lot?!
Did I also read where Curtis stated there was an increase in enrollment standards?
I hope so. That would also contribute to the enrollment decline.
Pretty sure they eliminated SAT scores to admission. Could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s harder to get into
I love the excuse of "less high school graduates". Not saying it isn't true, but there isn't 40% less high school graduates than there was 10 years ago. Curtis needs to get the hell out of here.
perhaps not 40% decrease in HS grads but rather 40% decrease of HS grads who consider ISU for their college choice
part of this is also the CONTINUING aging, emptying of the Midwest, Great Lakes and the increase of people in the Sun Belt
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Wonder if upperclassmen are a higher percentage of the total. Are more kids going the Ivy tech route and transferring after 2 years?