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Last One Out at The University of Akron, please turn off the lights.

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Cleveland State may end up in a stronger position than Akron. They already have a partnership agreement with Cuyahoga Community College. Heck, I believe CSU is one of the few colleges in Ohio that is hitting their enrollment numbers.

As to Stark State, I know a few faculty members at Akron and they were upset that when Stark State came into town there was no partnership between the schools. Instead, one of the failed past adminstrations chased a national deal with ITT, which is now non-existent, instead of partnering with a successful school just down the road in Stark County.

As a parent of a couple of high schoolers, I am on the other side of the college recruitment that goes on for them. The mailers are non-stop, my kids said what comes in the mail is nothing compared to the emails they receive, and now my wife and I are getting personalized mail from colleges.
 
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BuckBackHome said:
As a parent of a couple of high schoolers, I am on the other side of the college recruitment that goes on for them. The mailers are non-stop, my kids said what comes in the mail is nothing compared to the emails they receive, and now my wife and I are getting personalized mail from colleges.
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I have one daughter who's a college freshman. One that was just accepted into a magnet program, my wife just finished her grad school, I'm finishing up my grad school. I weep for the environment every day when I get the mail. The amount of college recruitment junk mail I get is mind boggling. Not a single one of us is a legitimate recruit anymore yet the mail just keeps flowing in.
 
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We could draw our freshman classes back down to the 6500 range and flush out another 1000 well qualified kids into the rest of the system, but not without getting some real systemic and structural reforms in return as well as a separate from the rest of the system funding model that makes up for the lost tuition and room & board revenue from those kids. Lacking that, I see no reason why we shouldn't keep taking them as well as hording hundreds of 24-27 ACT type kids at our branch campuses. It's not our responsibility to save these schools from the inherent instability of a state university system that, over our objections, they fought to create.

That's the great irony in all of this. We didn't want this shitshow system and had it shoved down our throats. It was the other schools that all teamed up and demanded this free-for-all mess, and now watching the reckless, unstructured system they created eat them alive while we hum effortlessly above the fray is pretty god damned satisfying.
 
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Another rough article for Akron U, or Interim U. Not only is the president position an interim position, but so are more than half the colleges and schools within the university. Oh, and it may be a full year before they have a permanent president in place. How can this board not be replaced?
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Who's going to take that job? The fiscal crisis was pretty evident before Proenza even left. His first successor was a true grifter who bounced between trying to privatize everything in sight while lavishing money on his personal residence to gimmicks like changing the name to Ohio Tech and starting a Corps of Cadets. He was followed up by a guy who literally was looking for other jobs from day one and was told to resign when he refused to commit to the school for a set period of years.
 
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