What’s wrong with progressing . All companies that want to thrive and survive, evolve or get left behind. UH is going to be 100 yrs old in 2027. We don’t need to be what we were but need to be forward looking and improve what we can. UH no longer has to be what it was bc UH Downtown , HCC etc can fill that void. We can still have some commuters but we have to evolve to be more like traditional p4 schools or at least closer to them. Khator wouldn’t be doing this project if she didn’t agree. Law , Cullen, me and others just want the betterment of UH. Mankind usually wants to continually improve. If you have kids , don’t you want them to have a better life than you or the same or less? It’s the natural progression of mankind to want to improve. It’s all me, law and Cullen want like Khator. Central Fla started in what , 1969? and look what they accomplished in a short amount of time. It’s progress or get left behind bc all schools like companies are trying to progress from their past.
No, our level of research spending is way too small for AAU membership anytime
soon. It needs to increase to 2.5-3x of what
it is currently. It hasn’t increased in relative terms for last 10+ years. That, and hiring the top scholars in their fields, are the big things we need to address to get an AAU invite.
As most things, it usually always comes down to money.
R&D Spending
USF - 461,390
UH - 231,942
https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingbysource&ds=herd
It is MOSTLY about research dollars, but if you read the AAU’s own published criteria, undergrad grad rates are a metric they consider, and our non-traditional “commuter” nature does indeed hurt us in that regard.
Norbert would have been one of those Aggies that wanted TAMU to remain true to its roots and only allow white males.
If they wanted a diverse non white co-ed university, there were other schools in the state the 60s equivalents to Norbert would say.
Luckily, TAMU completely destroyed its mission statement and allowed itself to become a "Traditional University "
Well…i believe the University of Houston can evolve to something more than a commuter school and im not going to let narrow minded jaded people like Norbert hold us back.
The three amigos strike again. Calling UH grads commuter school diploma mill community school low ROI graduates. I’m surprised you don’t go around calling UH cougar high.
FU if you think those schools are the type of school that UH students are equivalent to. You must be one of those haters that think UH has open enrollment. We’re on par with ATM and TT in admissions but just because we have sucky football attendance, these dotes want to change UH, which is doing great btw, 180 degrees. So many successful UH grads all around Houston, but yea, let’s get rid of that because these three are jealous of football attendance at ATM and UT.
From last time I looked into it, studies do not
show a strong correlation with required living
on campus mandate and improved graduation rates.
If that was the case, it would be easier to justify the residency requirement mandate.
If they have strong data for that they need to
show it.
If UH wants to improve graduation rates, it
needs to set a limit on number of part time
students it will allow, and not commuters. And discontinue or curtail the number of evening classes. But
that will impact enrollment numbers. And get
lots of negative publicity.
If the issue is we don’t have 10,000 students showing up to football games, when we already have that many on campus and all the new student housing adjacent to campus, that’s a different thing.
Maybe with HCC and LSC offering more BA/BS degrees, our part time students will
migrate to these less expensive options and that will help our graduation rate problem.
Your missing the point.If UH can become a more traditional school or closer , all things become easier from general fundraising to even nil or general support. Khator knows this and it’s why she’s building yet another dorm on campus as part of the 100 yr plan. UH is a great academic school but we have to catch up in other ways which helps longterm success across the board. The A&M ex is a great example of how they realized that the only way to compete and move forward was to allow women to enroll. If A&M remained an all white military school, they’d be left behind. It was way tougher for them to embrace that growth change than it is for us to make the changes we need.Again UH is a great academic school but needs some other changes to keep up. A&M did it so can we.
I think you are confused because almost everyone views UH as that…even UH graduates that proudly send their sons & daughters to other schools and are secretly estatic “they picked a more Traditional school”
Even big Cougar Matt Thomas talks about how superior the college atmosphere is in Texas Tech and how glad he is his son chose “A real college”
Us "Three Amigos"are sick of that stereotype, no matter how true it is , and are DISGUSTED by Coogs like you that are NOT allowing our University to Evolve.
Guess what…Texas A&M isnt a racist all white male college anymore…Florida State isnt an all female teaching college…Universities build and replace their old reputation with a new one…
That’s all we are asking.
The P4 entrance GAVE US THE MANDATE to fully support Dr Khator’s vision of turning us into a Traditional School.
We just need the old Dinosaurs, like Norbert, to FINALLY step aside but they won’t…no matter how hard we try
UH’s own stats, however, did indeed reflect that.
Campus residents had much higher graduation rates.
During the Obama Admin, there was an initiative, mostly in response to for profit rip-off schools, to tie certain federal funding to grad rates (those for profit schools all have notoriously low graduation rates).
Because at UH the grad rates for campus residents were so much higher, a freshman housing mandate was proposed in order to raise grad rates and avoid loss of federal funds.
Too bad that dumbass Whitmire interfered.
Show us the data you speak and cleanup your language.
Find the peer reviewed studies that backup what you say.
First of all, the graduation rate for full time students is MUCH higher.
Most of those part timers are commuters.
Most campus residents are full time.
UH itself admits that its grad rates hurt us in our quest to become a USNEWS Top 50 public. It’s chiefly part-time commuters that contribute to that problem.
At one point, there was a link showing how many more hours residential students took, but it was taken down.
Of course it would be. You’re accumulating hours at twice the rate of a part time
student. That tells you nothing.
But where does that say 1 year residential full time students have much higher graduation rate versus full time off campus commuter students ?
Indicators of successful student outcomes( 4 year graduation rates) come down to parental economic levels and incoming SAT scores. Which is really not surprising either.
Maybe UH should mandate students join a fraternity for improved
student outcomes.
/s
That is not true of all. You are making generalities into facts for all groups. There are many community college students that get involved with non-class activities such as clubs.
No one on this forum or associated with UH is against advancement and improvement. Just some of the archaic methods proposed here. All this under the guise of wanting more “traditional” students in hopes of improving donations to the school athletics.
This is a good point of difference. Where to put the causation.
I don’t think Khator is too fond of the Greeks.
Of course there are ouliers but until we have 51%, or more, as Traditional Students we are NOT a Traditional University.
We should have at least 25k students at every single football game (only 7 ALL YEAR).which is what other 50k size P4 schools, our peers, do routinely.
The reason we don’t is because our Traditional Student % is in the teens SO LET’S FIX THAT.
Not just for football attendance but for the 100s of other ways it will improve our University
Are Stanford students “traditional” students?
Harvard? Yale?
Are they selling out their stadiums?
Until we make the UH campus a place where students want to spend time, the on-campus residency discussion is moot. It’s a quibble about where students sleep at night and park their cars (which they still need, because socializing without one remains difficult.)