I’m all about Greek Life.
Sigma Nu.
Lived in a frat house in college almost all four years.
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I get that more freshmen living on campus is a good thing, but if that was the requirement when I went there I wouldn’t have been able to afford it. I could only afford to commute.
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I was a commuter, and it is very important to not leave them out. I am all for requiring freshman to live on campus, commuters can go to UH downtown or clear lake or HCC and transfer in to UH main campus.
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We can have both commuters and a 25 % residential campus best of both worlds .
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Well, I’m glad I got to attend UH as a commuter in 1989. I went to every home game at the Astrodome when Andre Ware won the Heisman and fell in love in UH football. Had I gone to another campus, that probably doesn’t happen. Now I’ve been a season ticket holder for nearly 20 years and I’ve had basketball season tickets since Fertitta opened. I’m a Cougar through and through, and I was a commuter.
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So you’re saying that UH is equivalent to UHD or HCC? Crazy.
Not at all, just an option. You must know you can go to UT Tyler and transfer in to UT, or A&M Commerce and transfer in to A&M. Are those schools the same, NO.
Isn’t that mostly for students who didn’t qualify for UT or A&M, not because of money?
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I asked this in another thread a while back, but is there any real evidence that a school can still become “traditional?” The only “traditional” public school I can think of with a founding date later than 1920 is Tech, and they sort of had to be due to their geography. FSU might count if you really squint since they were a Women’s College until 1947, but they were still a century-old, “traditional” women’s college. Miami was founded in 1925, but they’re private. Are y’all just tilting at windmills?
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The top feeder schools for transfers into the University of Houston are Houston Community College, San Jacinto College and TSU, all local to the area. It is interesting that University of Houston Downtown is not set up or considered a feeder school to the University of Houston Central Campus.
The top feeder school for the University of Texas is Austin Community College. Second are the UT Systems schools in Arlington, Tyler, San Antonio, under UT’s Coordinated Admissions Program.
I think nationally, community colleges are good feeder schools to 4 year institutions.
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Yea, not so much as feeder schools, but as a way to save money.
Yes, indeed.
And Dartmouth also has a huge Greek community. 2/3 of the students there are in it. We toured it last summer and my daughter was surprised how active it was. And it shot up to the top of her list of schools. Dartmouth is a lot smaller than Cornell, but has greater participation.
Like it or not, Greek life is important to a lot of high schoolers right now. The number of high school kids after the traditional SEC experience is crazy. The vast majority of kids at my daughter’s school go SEC and Greek. UH is best served by embracing the traditional Greek community and athletics. It’s a win win.
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It’s probably because of Tijtok
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Is UHD not independent? Could of swore they were.
UH/D is part of the UH System, just like UHCL. It’s a totally seperate school and not associated with the main campus.
UT doesn’t have feeder schools. The CAP program (which I’m not sure even exists still) is only for admission into the liberal arts college, but you still have to be accepted even if CAP’ed
UT Business and STEM schools accept a VERY low number of transfers regardless of where you come from.
UH Business and STEM still heavily rely on transfers.
That’s the difference
I guess i was implying that there is zero interest in feeding UhD or UHCL students into UH main, as it defeats the purpose of said schools
UHCL has their own board, research, and endowment. They even stated when converting to 4 year that they will never rule out the possibility of participating in NCAA sports, but not likely in the near future.
Yeah, in general, those students chose those schools on purpose.
You’re right about that.