Duce630
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Really? I always considered myself a commuter student since I never lived on campus but otherwise I was involved in stuff.
Also, I’m not sure how many commuter students of any type necessarily don’t want the involvment, some just don’t have the time with their jobs and families, etc on top of school.
Certainly there are plenty of those but I would say not all of them. Many of them are proud to be getting an education and be a Cougar. Especially if they are one of the ones working and taking care of a family at the same time.
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Duce630
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It seems you have the apathetic view of the students past and present. I don’t think anyone on Coogfans that posts as often as Norb would have an apathetic view of the University of Houston.
Well you certainly have a strange way of showing it.
He didn’t say anything like that.
I really think you underestimate how many are proud, even if they don’t have the full experience you think they need to be proud.
I also think you don’t have near the amount resentful students attending that would rather be at UT, etc. currently like you did prior to 2000. I think that contingent has gotten a lot smaller over the last 20 or so years. Of course, that’s just my gut feeling but based on being an undergraduate student at UH in both the mid 90’s and returning in 2009 to graduate in 2012.
It’s amazing how many people here DO NOT want the University of Houston to become a premiere BALANCED public university similar to every other public school with a P4 label. Even politicians echo this attitude.
Nobody is saying turn UH into a Animal House but being a “Houston” version of a University of Texas is ABSOLUTELY within reach.
A diverse, highly regarded academic University , set in a urban location that attracts both IN-STATE and OUT OF STATE students due to it’s academic stature + culture + supporting environment provided for a college atmosphere.
There is so much more involved than just “going to football” games.
And as someone who has had FOUR family members attend the University of Houston, yet I’m the only one who cares about UH AT ALL, I think I know the characteristics of a Commuter Student and how damaging they are to our growth IF we allow those to be the majority student we accept.
Nobody is saying getting a Medical school is a negative…lol
We are largely talking about the environment provided to undergraduates and HOW we can continue to attract passionate and talented applicants that WANT to contribute towards the tradition/culture of the University of Houston, in addition to their academic accomplishmnets.
There was once a time when Florida State was a WOMEN’S TEACHING COLLEGE and there were people who thought…FSU needs to become a more Traditional University and boom…they headed in that direction!
There was once a time when Texas A&M was a SEGREGATED ALL MALE AGRICULTURAL AND ENGINEERING COLLEGE and there were people who thought…TAMU needs to become a more integrated Traditional College with opportunities for BOTH Men and Women and Boom…they headed in that direction!
There was a time when the University of Houston was a poorly funded COMMUTER CAMPUS catering towards those who did not value school tradition or a generational UH legacy culture because after all “UH should always stay in it’s lane” and yet there were people who thought, NO…the University of Houston has EVERY RIGHT to become a Traditional Campus with all the achievements associated with that yet boom…old mind dinosaurs, like @norbert , continued to fight to suppress the OVERALL GROWTH of the University of Houston’s evolution.
Wanting something BETTER for my alma mater is the opposite of Inferiority…it’s called AMBITION
the recent graduation of the first class of the Medical School has NOTHING to do with the larger conversation we are discussing.
This is a great accomplishment …now use our rising academic reputation to continue to develop a larger Traditional University, which includes receiving interest from students outside of the Houston metro and outside of the state. We are severely lacking in those applicants
Temple University ALSO has a Medical School…but NOBODY views Temple as a traditional campus compared to the P4 campuses…quite the opposite.
You make no sense with your argument. …I don’t even know what you are arguing.
Duce630
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I don’t think you really know what the typical commuter student is in 2024 or what would be an outlier.
When I was finishing my degree 2009 to 2012, looking at just people I knew in the Valenti School, only one lived on campus at the time. I’m confident in saying that very few of them lived on campus as freshmen but I admit that is just a feeling. At least 90% were involved in one or more student organizations. A few were or had been involved in Greek life, there was one Buggy Beauty, and I think one Frontiersman but I might be misremembering that.
That doesn’t consider the people I knew through the Hilton college or Bauer. .
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Duce630
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I don’t know if there is a demand but when I was accepted in 2003 and started in 2004 there were only 55 schools now we are at 67.
Texas has 4 currently. UT-Houston, UT-San Antonio, Texas A&M-Dallas (formerly known as Baylor College of Dentistry) and the most recent to open Texas Tech in El Paso. Texas Tech is 4-5 years old.
I found a nice graphic of trends in dental schools from the ADA.
You know how med schools are often divided into those which are chiefly research oriented (like Johns Hopkins), and those which are chiefly primary care oriented (like UH)?
Are dental schools the same way, with some focusing on general and pediatric dentistry, and others focused on specialties and research?
So a true pediatric dentist is a specialist that attended a post dental school (also called a post doctoral) advanced dental education program. There are nine recognized advanced dental education specialties eg. Oral Surgeon, Orthodontist, endodontist etc…
I called them “true pediatric dentist” because there are some chain dental places that see only/mostly kiddos and are marketed for kids but are really just staffed by general dentists.
A specialist is limited to their specialty ex. endodontist = 98% of the time is root canals 2% apicoectomy (they never place the crown after the root canal), orthodontis = only moving teeth (notice that they never extract the teeth they need out for braces).
When you graduate dental school you have been exposed to most of the procedures and have worked on children as well as adults and can do whatever procedure you feel comfortable doing. Its up to the dentist.
As far as Specialty training goes, most dental schools have programs for specialty training (post doctoral programs) and some offer more specialty programs than others but as far as I know there are no dental schools that only train general dentist and others that only focus on specialties.
As far as Research goes, there are schools, like Harvard dental school, that are predominantly focused on research and folks attending them usually end up in dental research/teaching positions.
Not to confuse you to much and also a little off topic but there are also AEGD (advanced education in general dentistry) and GPR (general practice residency) programs. These programs offer extra training in general dentistry and are also post graduate programs. They are usually 1 year and some states require them in order to practice dentistry. They can be affiliated with a dental school or a hospital. I did a GPR at Jamaica Hospital in Jamaica, New York. and New York is a state that requires a AEGD or GPR in order to obtain a license there. AEGD is like another year of dental school. While a GPR is hospital based and more doing and less reading/testing taking.
Sorry for the wall of text but I would like folks to understand the different levels. There are more but I will stop here because this should cover the most popular paths.
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