This is emblematic of what is wrong with SIUC. Once you start having declining sales/students, you can't price cut your way out of the difficulty since someone else can always go lower. Does SIUC think the universities in the states the administration is targeting are going to just stand quietly by and let SIUC poach their students? Nope, they will either cut prices as well or increase the quality of their offerings to keep students. From the administration, all I am hearing is cuts, both in staff and price, nothing about improving the quality of the offering.
Sure, there are instances throughout the campus of individual units increasing the quality of their offerings but no indication of a defining focus or vision from the top.
I hate to tell you, but you are beginning to sound like me. Is there a way to blog, really look at SIUC and not be sad with what you find?
ReplyDeleteEnjoying the blog. Keep up the good work.
Peter