BearCountry wrote:
Beary Manilow wrote:
BearCountry wrote:
takes away ... the fact that UCA is either the most expensive pub. 4 year inst. or close to it. Budgets are tight
How is that deceptive? That's a pretty legit reason for enrollment to drop – particularly in a down economy.
Over 1000 students that never attended UCA but took courses in their high school and were counted as students at UCA...aren't now. So the foundational students, those that actually attend UCA, on campus paying full tuition etc.. are still in there. Enrollment didn't drop, UCA just removed those outliers.
So, is that like saying we never really were the 2nd largest university in Arkansas to begin with?
I do wonder about the ledge funding we get. I think if we upped our research capacity & masters/doctoral offerings a few notches some of that might go away (not that there is much reason for the difference now).