I have been on their campus. It is no better or worse than Houston’s but perception from an FSU alum, ucla alum, USC alum they/not me think that it is a dump, an inner city dump. Understand the nuance/perception?
What do sports venue promoters do? Keep the fan in the stadium or close to it. That is key to establish a “home/proud” student community.
Hard to compete in a city with Michelin star and James Beard winning restaurants just minutes away.
Go back and look at the links that I provided.
They show that among first time students at UH who are part-time, only TWO percent graduate on time, and only 38% EVER graduate.
Those are TERRIBLE numbers.
They are KILLING our USNEWS ranking and AAU metrics.
If you have fewer part-time commuters, and a lot more full-time residential students, you’ll see a marked and significant increase in those numbers, which will BOOST our rankings and our AAU metrics.
That’s WHY the freshman housing mandate was so important, and why Whitmire was such a DUMBASS for blocking it.
I went to an undergrad with a two year housing mandate.
Obviously, the graduation rates there are much higher.
Stop insulting commuter students. You have done it for years. You have no clue what you are arguing about when you bring up one of the worst example that you could with ucla and Westwood. Idiotic. A student has a choice. Study and graduate.
We have more students living on campus than uta and atm. How do you explain that? You can’t.
No one is insulting them.
We are simply stating a fact: that they graduate at a MUCH lower rate, and the fact that UH has always had a far larger than normal share of such students hurts our graduation rates, which in turns hurts our USNEWS ranking goals and AAU metrics.
I know of no way other than through a housing mandate of some kind to turn that around.
How much time do you think UH students are spending at Michelin starred restaurants
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There is no more room available on campus. Are you coming with a check to build new student housing?
You don’t get to be a good school by branding yourself as a working class commuter school.
It LITERALLY holds is back via 4 year Graduation rates
Renu gets it, us 3 get it…MANY here do NOT.
Once we joined a P4 our fate was sealed…being who “we used to be” is NO LONGER an option.
Hence the 35 million poured into a social gathering project
…hence the multi millions thrown at athletics.
They are TRYING to create a culture but it will take a while for these Dinosaurs 
to go extinct.
You guys should have gone to HCC!
You coming with law and a blank check to build new housing?
Yes AND try to convince people to stop promoting us a working class commuter school full of non traditional students.
It is literally KILLING our graduation rates and our ability to move up the rankings
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I’m saying that Houston is a foodie city. A place like the Dixie Chicken isn’t going to cut it.
What is the matter with you? There is no room to build more on campus student housing. We have more than uta and atm. It has nothing to do with commuter students. Man enough already.
You said yes. You coming with a check?
TIL every Engineering school and every Ag school in America is not a “good school.” Georgia Tech, Texas A&M, Auburn, Clemson…all heaps of garbage, apparently, given that serving the working class has been part of their “brand” since day 0. Basically the entire set of land-grants, really. Nevermind that the entire US public education system was built on the back of draftees using the GI Bill, schools clearly can’t get good while accommodating the working class.
Seriously, the spewing of ahistorical, nakedly classist BS gets worse every time you talk about this subject.
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Not sure about the working class bit.
Those land grants were intended to emphasize agriculture, engineering, and military science, as opposed to the classical subjects emphasized at most of the then existing universities.
All land grants must offer those subjects to one degree or another.
MIT and Cornell are both land grants.
Not exactly “working class” havens.
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This is flat out wrong. The freshman dorm for 2027 is the first of future housing projects. Moody is getting renovated and another two dorms/apartments are going up on Cullen Blvd. Don’t forget the student housing going up behind Coogs Crossing
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Oh I know that.
That brings us up to 10Kish in the dorms.
But we still need to do something about the legions of part-time commuters that have a 2% on time graduation rate and 72% overall non-graduation rate.
That’s KILLING our aspirations.
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Jesus christ dude
Many UH students are first generation college students from the Houston area.
Do you think UH is getting a bunch of trust fund kids? They’re not.
What’s so bad about people wanting to improve their place in society? These kids don’t deserve to go to UH?