The dozens of Auburn students hanging Bama pennants in their dorm will testify to this.
Our acceptance rate is 76% for this year. Ten years ago, it was less than 60%.
UH has a ton of legacy students. I also know a lot of parents that make their kids come here, AND make them commute, too. Lots of people have UH as a first choice.
UH has aspects of a destination university in academics only, and thatās by a thread. Personally, my love for this place has been faltering week by week. Thereās a ton of stuff going on here that is driving passionate Coog Alums, or those who spent many years working at UH to LEAVE. Others in cases where theyāre calling for changes in admin. āIāve loved and worked for this place for so many years, it sucks that it took me this long to realize how naive I wasā
Our jump in rankings recently came as a result of the methodology changing. Not as a result in jumps. The only time where actual change was cited as a catalyst for our jump in rank was the performance of the basketball team, and the medical school. Literally nothing else has been cited since. And changes in administrative positions as a result of state threats or whatever have caused rankings to drop from our top programs (see the GCSW which lost 50 spots in rank after an interim provost made a change).
Yāalls arguments here, especially as those who are NOT students, are really out of touch. Read into what campus is like today, and itāll be just fine. The minority student / housing requirements arguments are really stupid. The school has to do other things to keep students on campus, because if you ask any student living on campus, theyāre likely to go home on the weekend since thereās literally nothing else to do here. Nothing is encouraged, and things are killed off year to year.
I was walking on campus just last week and theyāre hosting farmers markets from 10am-2pm. I have work during that time. People are in class during that time. The foot traffic in Butler Plaza is a bit insignificant since people donāt go to the library.
@monceaux even mentioned on the sunday night podcast episode with the AD, is that there seems to be just an entire degree of separation across Cullen Boulevard between the AD and the Admin side. āThe Cullen Gapā exists, and itās not for the preferential treatment of athletes. I have heard from people in the know that athletics is treated as a means to an end, helps the Uni profile, but isnāt given the āloveā it deserves from people in high places.
If it were different, weād probably have more attendance/appreciation/pride.
And on that note, we keep trying to circle around things around campus to keep students here, or how much athletics goes.
What about student happiness on campus???
Trust me, it isnāt high.
Departments are being shredded left and right. Students in the last semester suddenly have to take an extra class due to an advising error. Higher ups in the graduate school are completely disregarding their students and leaving them to fend for themselves. Some have to work for free and many extra hours on top of their graduate degrees/max 20 hrs a weekā¦ Did I mention: FOR FREE? just to get by?
FAFSA disbursements are being screwed around with. Financial Aid isnāt being negotiated. The school is operating it as a business, and not making the students a product of the school.
No initiatives to create pride. Zero. None. Nada. They donāt care, they donāt push the purpose of being a Coog.
@T-Moar and I harp on this more than the whole āstuff to doā side. Is the school creating happy cougars? Because I can say, theyāre NOT.
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Anecdotal evidence here, but there is a ton of recognition and interest in UH right now.
I just spent most of the last week in Alpine and Big Bend, and wore exclusively UH gear of course. I was stopped by no less than 15 people on Saturday alone asking how the Coogs football team did. (I had to curse every one of themā¦ as nicely as I could). I got Cougar Paws and Go Coogs from lots of hikers in the Basin this week. And I got to boo some Rice students near the South Rim, so that was like the icing on the cake.
Weāre more prominent than you might think.
Keep advertising and promoting the Coogs every chance you get. Weāre heading the right direction.
Indoctrinate your kids. I did. In fact, I created a monster. A Cougar Monster. Iām both proud and terrified. Heās a diehard.
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Lolz because this happened to me in 1991 making me take one summer class instead of being free as a bird after May 1992.
However this isnāt just a UH thing since one of my exes received no academic help from UT despite needing tutoring. UTās only recommendation was to dress in a business suit to project the McCombs ālookā.
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This is the way. It works.
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Our 100 yr in 2027 , with the campus improvements and new dorm mean UH wants to become a residential campus and trending more towards that goal. We will still have commuters and room for them but weāre trying to break away from the mostly commuter model. I received the latest magazine saying UH wants to become a primarily residential school. Itās Khatorās goal .
We also need our AD to somehow figure out selling out the football student bc kids do what to go to big time football schools. Weāre higher rated academically than Lsu yet kids what to go there when not accepted by A&M and UT so we need to work on football attendance and winning .
Weāre trending in the right direction with trying to become a residential school etc but Cullen is right in that we need more on campus taking pride in school , attending some events and being involved during and after graduation. Itās the life line that sustains giving back in ways. We need to get away from being a degree factory when kids graduate and never give back in anyway small or large.
Cullen is right . We simply need to start our next hundred yrs moving towards what other p4 schools do. Mimic what they do. Weāre such a big school , yes we can still have commuters and it isnāt an all or nothing .
I have personally witnessed more people with pride since Khator took over but again she gets it which is a change from the past to forward thinking. Why would we do the 100 yr plan with a new dorm and campus upgrades if it wasnāt there plan.
Read the article in magazine that all of you should have and youāll see. UH is moving towards being a residential campus and the admin is for it and embracing change.
If you look at my posts above, MULTIPLE TIMES i mentioned UH was the superior academic institution compared to TTU
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Did you guys take time today to have a traditional turkey dinner?
Aināt nobody got time for that when there are internet slap-fights to be fought.
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You are the first lol
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Well, I definitely did.
Wife and I cooked up quite a feast for ourselves and our parents.
With the right time management skills, youāll always have the time both enjoy the holidays, AND win internet fights.
It aināt an either/or.
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Exactly. Like I said, Iām going to the games anyway. My family doesnāt know the difference between Southern and Ohio State so they donāt care. And I donāt care by proclamation. Just win by 1 point every week and Iām happy.
Iām talking about whatās gonna drive attendance in Houston, TX. Nunez has a tall order next year.
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Just looked it upā¦Texas Techās 6 year graduation rates are almost 70% which is higher than the University of Houstonās 62% so TT is slightly higher.
Their 4 year graduation rates, however, (i.e. the Traditional Student path) blow us out of the water.
TT= 54%
UH= 39% which is ABYSMAL
THIS is why RK wants more Traditional Studentsā¦our low graduation rates are literally holding us back and i do believe we have the potential to be a Houston UTv2.0 option nation wide.
We just need to encourage our students to graduate in as close to 4 years + leave with a strong life long connection to their alma mater which seems to be a monumental hill to climb
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Unless itās hot, right? 
No. Iāll go when itās hot but I wonāt be in my seat. And my family might not be with me. Iām not into heat stroke unless Iām in a bathing suit or getting a lap dance in Guadalajara.
And screw Matt Adams and the rest of his clan: Aggie, Reveille, and Edwin Simmons.
The arguments on this message board are cyclical. Either that or time is flat. How is it always that the same old geezers can ruin different threads with the same old outdated discussions all the time? Why canāt the mods do something as about it?
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ā¦because the problems continue to be cyclical, year after to year .
Granted, RK has worked her A$$ off to move the needle but the pace is glacial and sheās literally had to fight for every single inch.
She needs as many of us, in her corner, beating that drum as possibleā¦even if that means every single day.
I keep using this as an exampleā¦There was a time that the majority of Texas A&M alums wanted to keep it an all whiteā¦all maleā¦military themedā¦Non-traditional school.
Thank Godā¦there were many who allowed the University to evolve into a Traditional Campus
Our University is going through those type of growing pains now but noā¦we cannot give upā¦we have a lot of work left to do!
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That doesnāt happen.
You clearly were not familiar with the āIām a Bama fan, but I wanted to study engineeringā demographic.
I wonder if people that go to NC State to study engineering because UNC doesnāt offer engineering similarly become UNC fans down the road on that very same basis.
Somehow I doubt it.
@Kyle_Be_Coogin , what say you?
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