Rick Strickert (Carlvehse)
Senior Member
Username: Carlvehse
Post Number: 11054
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, April 14, 2024 - 7:51 pm: |    |
Given President Ankerberg's February 13th statement that noted:
quote:In the meantime, if you would like to talk to someone who can address your concerns and help you decide whether to continue your education here or seek other options, please get in touch with your advisor or contact Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) at caps@cuaa.edu or 734-995-7441.
The timing of this announcement was purposeful to allow students to make informed decisions about your future plans.
and his March 26th statement,
quote:On February 29, the Board unanimously agreed to protect CUAA's 2024-25 academic year.
suggests that most students who are currently juniors and seniors will be able to finish their baccalaureate degrees. However, freshmen and sophomores may find that the major they were intending to pursue may no longer be available after the end of the 2024-25 academic year. |
    
Rick Strickert (Carlvehse)
Senior Member
Username: Carlvehse
Post Number: 11055
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Monday, April 15, 2024 - 10:38 am: | |
Excerpted from a February 5, 2024, Inside Higher Education article, "Colleges on the Brink":
quote:A prolonged stretch of sinking enrollments, a global pandemic, uncertainties in state funding, a public increasingly skeptical of their value and their own tendencies to overbuild and overspend have left hundreds of colleges facing unsustainable futures.
If these institutions don’t change how they operate, it’s unreasonable to believe they will change this trajectory. Grand plans to grow their enrollments or solicit large private donations to boost their endowments aren’t viable strategies to dig out of deep budget holes. They’re wishful thinking.
Financially stressed institutions must take a full, clear-eyed accounting of what it costs to offer the academic programs, student support, research activities, entertainment and community service that most aspire to provide. At an increasing number of institutions, this reckoning will show they are offering more academic programs; employing more administrators, faculty and staff; and spending more money on intercollegiate athletics and other nonacademic activities than they can afford.
Not mentioned, but one needed action for the CUS schools is to purge the schools and academic programs of D.I.E. indoctrination and staff. |
