To me, this is a sign that UH needs to go full steam ahead and focus on being more traditional, more residential, more full-time, and less commuter.
That non-traditional/commuter/part-time undergrad demographic now has HCC and UHD.
We can now focus on becoming the UCLA or Pitt of Texas.
HCC and UH-Downtown can take over the non-traditional demographic.
Oh boy here we go again, thinking UH students are equivalent to HCC students.
They aren’t.
And that’s precisely why we need to stop ACTING like they are by being too non-traditional, too commuter, and too part-time……AS THEY ARE.
It holds us back. Makes us look more like them and less like UCLA or Pitt, which is what we should strive to be more like academically/institutionally.
I dont think they are, didnt Lonestar do something like this?
Lone Star College does offer a handful of Bachelor’s degrees in tech fields, and in Nursing (BSN).
Again, that’s another choice for the non-traditional/commuter/part-time demographic.
UH needs to start becoming a more traditional, full-time, residential “destination” choice.
There are somewhere around 8,400 hundred beds in and around campus with another 10,000 coming in 2027. This sound like a “the sky is falling” post. UH has been shedding the commuter school label for about a decade now.
How so? In football attendance?
Undergraduate graduation rates, which in turn affects our AAU metrics and USNEWS ranking.
AND sports attendance, campus life, etc.
@Cullen … any thoughts?
Dude, you have no argument.
Community College students have NO desire for a Traditional College Life.
They chose to live at home and commute, not be involved in both student clubs and athletic activities and chose to work during college often leaving campus the second class ends, compared to Traditional campuses which have a Univetsity themed district adjacent to campus keeping them there.
Yes…they are there for academics but that is NOT what we are arguing, we are arguing their connection to the University OUTSIDE OF ACADEMICS
The second we accepted a P5 invitation, is the second we officially NEED to become a Traditional Campus.
Dr. Khator tried to make that transition a decade before but politics got in the way.
Our region has many more affordable options for those WHO DO NOT want the Traditional College elements.
We all have to pay for a Power Conference designation, just like every single other school on that echelon
Enough with the “traditional student” BS. There’s nothing wrong with community college kids. You guys don’t know their circumstances.
If you want UH to be like college town campuses, then make real estate around UH more affordable.
There’s nothing wrong with commuters because statistically the majority of public universities could be considered commuter schools. If you want kids to stop commuting from suburbs 45+ minutes away, then make off-campus housing/apartments around campus more affordable so that they can spend more time around the university / within the loop
The difference with UT is that many live in adjacent districts within walking distance and almost ALL of the off campus population is very engaged outside of their academic schedule.
UT routinely fills up a 100k stadium…has more student clubs, greek life etc and has 6th Street full of students
Apples and Oranges comparison.
98% of UCLA’s true freshmen live on campus, even without a housing mandate.
That’s a goal to shoot for.
NO WONDER UCLA is so widely regarded as one of America’s top urban public research universities, if not THE top.
As for UT, that’s a little misleading because, while only a relatively small percentage may live in campus housing, a SUPER-MAJORITY of UT undergrads live VERY NEAR campus, and most are full-time.
It’s quite a bit different from UH in that regard. Nowhere close to the same “commuter” atmosphere.
This is not actually the problem.
For most of UH’s existence, the land around UH has been some of the cheapest real estate inside the loop.
So cheap that it scared off quality University themed development because the district has no catchment area to support development. All they have is the third ward and a majority commuter school.
We need gentrification to justify higher quality developments that parents would feel safe letting their children hang out at
Is popeyes chicken not enough for you?
You mean a well funded state flagship school is highly ranked? Can you get UH flagship funding too?
Not sure.
But we can certainly do more with what we have, and this is something we can control and change.
Man…you are missing the. Boat.
This conversation has nothing to with academics beside the point our crappy 4 year graduation rate + commuter school reputation is preventing us from becoming AAU.
The rest of the conversation is about college culture issues…or lack of
I’ll ask again, if you two (you and 1927/Cullen) think so low of the current UH and its past, why did you bother going to such a crappy commuter school in the hood? Why didn’t you go to UT, ATM, or UCLA?
Question for you- Why do you want us the be a P4 if you want us to remain a commuter community college type of school???
Why did I pick UH for law school?
a) it was the highest ranked law school that accepted me; aTm didn’t have a law school at the time, and I didn’t apply to UCLA; as a TX resident, UH Law Center also had the lowest tuition of any law school with that ranking, which kept my law school loans within reason, AND….
b) because I wanted to be a full-time, traditional, residential student; I lived on campus for three years, and was fully engaged in campus life.
I strongly encourage others to do the same.
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