As has been all over the local news, SIUC's fall enrollment is down again, this time by 970 student, roughly a 5% drop from last fall. This is a pretty sizable hit, too big to get classified as just a variation from the mean. Administrators blamed outside factors including:
amount of financial aid available to students, smaller graduating high school classes and drops in enrollment at local community colleges, from which a number of students transfer to SIU.
in other words, everything except the actions of the university.
amount of financial aid available to students, smaller graduating high school classes and drops in enrollment at local community colleges, from which a number of students transfer to SIU.
in other words, everything except the actions of the university.
Is it me, or is it time for a wholesale purge of senior management at SIUC?
ReplyDeleteChris Wissmann called for that in this week's Nightlife.
ReplyDeleteFYI (not saying anything for or against a purge)
ReplyDeleteSIU just went through a wholesale purge in middle management when Rita Cheng arrived. Nearly all of the deans and other people who report to the Provost are new; a bunch of the people who run student services departments are new, and about half of the people who report to the Chancellor are new.