Outstate Focus

Given the number of complaints I've heard at meetings regarding the lack of recruiting by SIUC in southern Illinois, the expansion of in state tuition to students in Missouri and Tennessee is interesting. Widening the pool is good but the university ought to make sure all the fish are caught in its local pond first. I've heard that high school graduation rates are dropping in southern Illinois and that's the reason to go outside the area but I haven't been able to find any statistics to support or disprove that.