BuckBackHome
Wolverine is largest member of weasel family
Ursuline College outside of Cleveland is looking to merge with Gannon University from Erie, PA.
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Ursuline College outside of Cleveland is looking to merge with Gannon University from Erie, PA.
calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Looks like what the Merger & Acquisitions folk used to do with corporations. Now it's spreading to education. Reduce the overhead (only need one President, Financial Officer, etc), but maintain two separate teaching staffs, curriculia. Have zero idea whether they are like universities, or polar opposites. Fascinating to observe from afar. Know that Ohio has many smaller colleges/universities, which I believe (?) are non-state funded.
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DubCoffman62
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After the Telecommunications Act of 1996 two companies but almost every radio station and one of the first things they did was fire all of the programmers at each individual station and hire one to program them all. DJs became button pushers who read the weather and traffic
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BuckBackHome
Wolverine is largest member of weasel family
I did not link the article as it is behind a paywall, but Akron U is looking at $27 million of cuts and is talking about reducing staff again. What caught my eye is their general fund subsidizes the athletics department to the tune of $20 million.
Can someone explain to me why universities like Akron U don't just eliminate their athletic departments? I know Akron isn't alone in this situation.
A few years back there was briefly talk of moving them down from D1 and said it would cost close to $20 million just to leave the MAC. I am guessing there are reasons beyond just upfront costs as to why schools don't dump their D1 athletic programs. Maybe @ORD_Buckeye has some insight.
Can someone explain to me why universities like Akron U don't just eliminate their athletic departments? I know Akron isn't alone in this situation.
A few years back there was briefly talk of moving them down from D1 and said it would cost close to $20 million just to leave the MAC. I am guessing there are reasons beyond just upfront costs as to why schools don't dump their D1 athletic programs. Maybe @ORD_Buckeye has some insight.
Inevitable but disgusting thought.. that @BuckBackHome has one of his hundred degrees from Kent
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Merge it with Kent. It never should have been absorbed as an independent four year university in the first place. Same thing with Toledo, which is also a fiscal and enrollment basket case.
Also, the athletic subsidy thing is a joke. State should put some kind of cap limiting what percent of an athletic budget can come through subsidies from the academic side and student fees.
Also, the athletic subsidy thing is a joke. State should put some kind of cap limiting what percent of an athletic budget can come through subsidies from the academic side and student fees.
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Have to keep ‘State’ though, it has an odd sound, but it still works.
Akrent read, Akrent write, Akrent State.
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Zippercat
Legend
Why would Kent State want to take on Akron’s debt and the future cash drain of operating an unneeded remote campus in downtown Akron? Makes more fiscal sense to bankrupt Akron and give current Akron students some short term financial incentives to transfer to other Ohio schools.
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I had to manage my way through something similar.
We acknowledged to the students that, although we had no obligation to them, we would work with them to identify a path to their current degree at the defaulting school by the original end-point date. There is a lot of similarity between degrees and courses across universities for undergrad degrees and even many Masters degrees. Given that they are losing their jobs and often feel some sense of commitment to their students, it also would be likely that current academic staff could be contracted for a short term to complete the teaching. It really wasn't very difficult with planning and budgetary disciplines in place in the School. There might be some degrees or courses that can't be offered, and this means some students wouldn't be able to continue (hence the opening sentence to this paragraph).
Doing this boosted revenues and profits and bought a lot of good will that helped grow student numbers in the medium and longer term.
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calibuck
Too soon old, too late smart
Remember that tOSU did something like reduction in offerings couple of decades ago. Cut out 'Eskimo studies' or somesuch, losing a chair, various profs, which were all there for about 22 students. Memories fuzzy certainly, but there wasn't much of a clamor when this occurred. In education, when one cuts classes/departments, an uproar occurs when the people involved lose out, on either a paycheck or course credit. At the K-12 level, state funding cuts required elimination of many electives - art, music etc. and mighty big hub-bub. 'Cut athletics' was their response. Well, the answer was/still is that the electives are what keep kids interested, not the solids like English and history. Anyway, the on-line proponents seem to be winning, as it's easier/cheaper to hire a prof to teach from home. Heck, he puts on a shirt and tie, but wears sweats below the camera. Once more, glad I'm out of this now.
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