Caught on WSIL this morning that Spring attendance at SIUC will come in at 13,300, down another 8% from Spring 2017 and down over 10,000 students from its peak back in 1990. Going to take quite a bit of work to get university numbers back to that level and I still haven't heard any good explanations as to how the proposed reorganization will accomplish this. Re-organizations generally work to make operations run more smoothly. That, as far as I can tell, is not the problem here, except maybe in recruiting. the university appears to run fairly well, it is just not attracting students at a level to replace those that graduate.
The Chancellor is not engaged in recruiting - only forcing his untried and untested plan down the throats of skeptical faculty, who, unlike him, have the relevant facts and quantifiable data. Did the BOT appoint to make SIUC fail by design?
ReplyDeleteFrom what I have been told, and this is second hand so take it for what it is, the BOT selected the last three Chancellors for specific purposes: Wendler to redesign the entryway to campus, Cheng to cut costs and Montemagno to reorganize.
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