he doesn’t get it
For those expecting all the students to stay around and connect with the schools after graduation - YOU ARE WAY OFF.
Here is a link to some of the top schools for students to make donations. It is a factor in USNews rankings so they track it.
I think that schools like Virginia Tech have solid support. Looking at this they still only get an average of 22% of their alumni donating to the school, not just athletics and they are listed in the top 15. So the 75% leaving campus is normal for all schools, not some horrid example of bad students.
You go to college to help with 3 areas
- Secure a job
- Develop Critical Decision making skills because your career may NOT be what you earned your degree in
- develop a Network of alums for future help as you develop your career
Too many UH grads ONLY focus on #1
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It is 100% of the question if you are saying people at UH should not be allowed here. It is directly impacted by what you are proposing - removing people from college education.
I came from a low income high school before UH, but I had relatives and coaches back in high school that encouraged me to attend UH even as a top 10% graduate.
Me deciding on UH was a no brainer as they offered me the most scholarship money compared to other schools I was applying to.
My coaches played football at UH and former Coach Briles recruited my old teammates from high school so the connection was already built.
What really opened my eyes in the past decade from 2010 on was when I was visiting suburban high schools in Houston and UH was preached as a fall back plan for many students applying to college.
And this is when I saw potential problems in getting the best talent in Houston.
The top 10% or top 5% were all encouraged to apply by their counselors to apply elsewhere.
I get it, you guys want to shut out the non traditional students. All I’m championing is don’t turn our backs on those kids. Houston kids. Working kids. Part time kids. They aren’t glamorous but so what, UH has carved out a niche for our kids. I’m all for growth, heck when I was at UH, the new architecture building did wonders for our program. But there were plenty of working classmates and even part timers.
i posted it earlier but the non residential student body at UH would be one of the 50 largest universities overall.
counterargument,do you think low income/first gen students should be denied a traditional college experience?
I think UH can do both and a better alumni base would make it much more financially viable.
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I wouldn’t kick them out…I;m just saying they aren’t getting 100% of what they paid for. They are opting out of the incredibly important, and worthwhile, parts of attending a University.
There are reasons why proud alums, of other schools, are SO PASSIONATE about their alma mater,
It is part of their family…too many UH grads opt out of their own family
Then you lost me by suggesting that if they were not allowed in UH because they were part time, they should go to CalTech or MIT. Do not see the benefit because they could not afford those schools even if they could get in.
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You are saying to accept more “traditional” students and “filter those students to the “leave the second your class ends” UH satellite campuses.”
So yes you are saying force them to other places than UH main.
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Bro, you just don’t have reading comprehension.
I’m being sarcastic.
JFC bro can you even count?
even if we doubled on campus beds that would still be 26K commuter students. UH only had 28k total when my dad graduated.
WTF are you talking about?
I am referring to the kids that are like the top 2 percent of their class that already have a set vision on being a a specialist in engineering or in the medical field.
It’s no coincidence that MIT, Cal Tech, Emory are near similar schools with schools with athletic programs that were big during their heydays from the 1900s to 1970s.
MIT near Harvard and Boston College
Cal Tech near UCLA and USC
Emory near Georgia Tech and Georgia
That reply was to tcoog - not sure where the reading comprehension fell through on your post as norbert (I am assuming two different posters and not one poster with two different accounts).
I started another thread so there is “no confusion” as to what we are discussing.
Not about only going to football games/ not going to football games…lol
Good question.
No student is being denied a traditional college experience. If a student has to leave campus for work or cannot afford to go full-time, UH is not denying them the experience, that is their own choice as to how they can get a degree in a way they can afford.
They have the option to go to campus full time and go to football games if they want.
or are you saying those on campus are hurt because they have some classmates that are part time?
So you’ve never posted blaming non traditional students and football attendance on the football forum? Liar.
If I were the applicant, my answers would be;
- YES!!! Letterman
2). YES!!!
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Now, no. But in the past, yes.
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N/A. Played HS football.
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DUH.
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YOU BET!!! Dad started taking me to UH footballgames in 1978; BBall in 1977.
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that is only 1 of 100 reasons .
If a student doesn’t feel connected…doesn’t feel passionate… feels apathetic about their University…of course they are not going to attend.
I’d say 90-95% of the people I know from UH fit into that category…they simply do NOT CARE