There’s a reason why our almost 50,000 students/alums can’t consistently fill up a 7,000 seat arena for the #6 team in the country, the majority of our alums want ZERO connection to UH, we lag in graduation rates and years of to graduate, yet we have potential traditional students who don’t seriously consider UH as a college experience option.
Just looking for solutions on how to improve.
And in response to your son…I attended UH because only 3 schools in the entire state of Texas offered what I was looking for…UH was one of them so I doubt our academics should be a factor in eliminating a potential student
Same with TSU and Prairie View - some folks would’ve never seen a college campus ever if those schools didn’t take a chance on them years ago - a lot did well and moved further out but when it’s time for the kids to continue? They sit back and let kids make decisions they know in their hearts aren’t best for them instead of continuing the tradition so now the tradition is even stronger meaning your enrolling a second generation college student and so on and so on -
Instead of getting that kid with a background suited for college and familiar with UH we’re now having to repeat the cycle and keep cultivating first generation students
The ones who come from college educated backgrounds and understands school spirit, etc they’re getting pushed to places that don’t need any help attracting those students
An Ag or Longhorn grad will damn near turn their back on their kid if that’s not an option for them and the kids understand
I understand how you feel, but I feel like as a parent, I need to allow my kids when they are of college age to make their own decisions. My number one priority for my kids and what I tell my HS students is, your number 1 priority for where you go to college should be can I graduate with a useful degree with as little debt as possible.
I think UH is a great school, but it nowhere near resembles the school it was when I was there in the mid to late 90’s. It’s clearly better. I can be an ambassador for the school without force feeding it to someone. Again, I think our school’s reputation is a much more positive one than you seem to feel. If we were the commuter school of yesteryear, we wouldn’t see the massive increase in on campus housing and apartments. Our SAT score to get into school is now an 1090. (As of October 2021 data). That is a significantly higher number than it was 20 years ago and a higher number than Texas A&M.
Im proud of the progress we’ve made on all fronts.
Keep the faith brother! We are headed in to e right direction.
Yes…my point is that the children (and the parents ) of upper middle class families rarely pick the University of Houston because it doesn’t check the boxes.
For many of our alums it is humble beginnings…not a destination school as Senator Whitmire adamantly stated. WHEN/IF we get to that point then we’ve elevated ourselves to UCLA but if die hard can’t pitch (or don’t want ) their children to attend the University of Houston…then we’ve got a long way to go.
My much younger suburban cousins never even gave UH a thought at all and I bet their parents were fine with that but indo keep the faith!
The program is geared toward serving “Underserved urban and rural communities or poorer segments of our population”
This is my whole point…our lane is to accept a certain type of student and even when we get state approval for something like a Med School…they remind us of our lane. Obviously, we take the deal to start a Med School and build on it but I have bigger aspirations for the growth of our University past the non-traditional student reputation.
Charlie was a freaking walking sports encyclopedia…knew everything about everything…you have him mixed up with someone else…Josh Pennis knew nothing about anything…
This is such a bad take of being forced to “Take a lane” to get a Medical Center. 22% of Harris Country’s 4.8 million residents don’t have access to Health Insurance and roughly 180,000 of those are so poor they don’t even qualify for Medicaid, Harris Health or the ability to use a FQHC. The UH Medical School is filling a badly needed gap in our community that other Medical Schools aren’t serving. Why create something that is already created? There are already more than enough Medical Schools training the next doctor the vast majority of us on this Board have access to already. Be different and find an angle that can serve the community. If the UH Med School is forced to “Take a Lane”, be proud of the lane that is being taken because the Med School will truly make a difference for hundreds of thousands of our neighbors and millions more outside of our community as the school builds up who otherwise not have access to health care with out UH.
I work for a healthcare non-profit who is partnering with UH Med School and serves those 180,000 I referenced earlier. UH will be a leader in this sector of healthcare and everyone should be very proud of its efforts.
The ratings at these stations say otherwise. These stations are to make money. They broadcast what draws the highest dollars from advertisers. If and when there is citywide interest in UH enough to drive ratings, you’ll hear it discussed.
Why know the entire sport’s scene.
Well if you need an answer that question.
To each is own but people in Houston have been long turned off by what this city offers. The iq level of the callers has gotten worse over time. So yeah someone who can offer more than bad takes might be appealing to me
We’re not asking for 24/7 coverage - just a damn mention lol
Between useless takes or random bromance conversations to fill time they could just say the scores at least - like they used to in the early 2000s when they actually cared about being an all sports radio
I pity the interns who come through that system now - their not learning radio
This thread smells of Coog High Inferiority complex. Never could relate to that, but it is alive and real. Gone up against way too many in my field from outstanding universities around the country to ever feel that way about the education I received at UH.
Also, when you start looking at universities for your children you’ll begin to open your mind that there are a lot of quality universities out there and you just want your child to find the best fit for them versus shoving them into this university or that university and your own university. It isn’t about you, or UH or any other school, its all about them.
He was wrong about Keenum though. Just like you and LZ were. And i think you know more about what teams yall were supposed to talk about the most. Because in 2011 we were the talk of college football and all i ever heard from the radio was downplay because some UT guy or Aggie was the boss.
I would love to ask each current Houston sports talk show host to name the starting lineup for the Houston Basketball team. I would go so far as to say that some couldn’t name any starters.