At a recent meeting to discuss concerns and solutions for the problems assailing SIUC and Carbondale, these were brought up as some of the concerns the attendees had:
·
SIU
has “lost its appeal” and community is losing $ as a result
·
Faculty
and staff diminishing rapidly along with students
·
Decline
in international students
·
Decline
in minority students
·
Need
for university identity not to be found in athletics but activism
·
Decline
in commercial, residential real estate (lack of new home construction)
·
SIH
does not bank locally
·
K-12
schools (low rating, bad reputation of primary schools)
·
Budget
impasse (lack of interest by state in local issues)
·
Need
for Southern and other media to balance good news with negative
reporting
·
Needs
of elderly
·
Need to create worldly, informed,
non-violent, educated student/citizens
If you have others, post them in the comments.
A meeting of whom, held by whom, when and where? Who was listening who might address these? Who attended? Not enough negative reporting from the Southern?
ReplyDeleteLast January at the Gorton's. A number of people attended including The head of the Faculty Association at SIUC and the Chancellor and his wife.
ReplyDeleteWhat is "the Gorton's?" I just googled, and of course only got Gorton's seafood.
DeleteD. Gorton and Jane Adams' residence in Carbondale.
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