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How does this solve any of the complaints people are making here. All I have read states that A&M will take transfers from the RELLIS Campus just like we do Blinn. Just because it may accept students not initially admitted to the main campus doesn't mean our admin is planning on taking less students at the main campus. Why do you think it will alleviate any of people's concerns at the main campus?
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He called for adding 290. Where were the additional 2,710 mentioned?
And the BOR approved the request to petition the legislature last month, so the onus is now on Austin.
So A&M expanded enrollment without the necessary resources to serve the additional students. And now they're begging Austin to help because class sizes have gone up and quality has gone down along with rankings.
Remind me why anyone could think John Sharp is competent?
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Eventually Aggies won't be distracted by the new stadium and will realize what a horrible job Sharp is doing. How far does A&M have to fall in the rankings before that happens?
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So not a single word on the Riverside (RELLIS) campus developments? Or how the Blinn board of regents unanimously voted to join the venture and have lauded the opportunity? It'll essentially solve all complaints about controlling enrollment at the flagship while still allowing kids of former students to have a college experience in College Station and graduate with a A&M-system degree.
Or are we only bringing up topics to levy political attacks and bash administrators?
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The head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday praised the Texas A&M University System's recently announced RELLIS campus, saying it paves the way for leading transportation minds to work together for a safer future.
Mark Rosekind spoke to more than 300 professionals as part of the Texas A&M Transportation Institutes' 2016 Traffic Safety Conference in College Station. In his speech, he lauded the RELLIS campus as a concept that will help address the nation's current and coming needs.
"It positions them beautifully for what's coming, especially in the realm of new safety technologies," Rosekind said. "It really solidifies them, frankly, for progress."
By embracing a model of public and private partnership, while also incorporating the academic minds of the A&M system's faculty and students, Rosekind said the RELLIS campus will be a "great opportunity" for innovation.
quote:first... you're one of the level headed posters here and your comments usually strike me as actually caring about the well being of A&M... not just some anti-Sharp agenda like others...quote:
So not a single word on the Riverside (RELLIS) campus developments? Or how the Blinn board of regents unanimously voted to join the venture and have lauded the opportunity? It'll essentially solve all complaints about controlling enrollment at the flagship while still allowing kids of former students to have a college experience in College Station and graduate with a A&M-system degree.
Or are we only bringing up topics to levy political attacks and bash administrators?
1) Giving legacies a "College Station college experience" is a foolish goal that doesn't serve the taxpayers of Texas.
2) Kids that graduate from an A&M System school deserve the "other education" that we tout so highly, just as much as anyone. Hard to do when you're campus has no intercollegiate sports (that's back on the home campus of that system school) nor the full range of extracurricular opportunities (ditto). Instead, it makes a sort of "DeVry Institute" situation.
quote:How can anyone expect the same type of "other education" experience as most of us had when there are 80k students? Face it, folks, it isn't and won't be the same thing for our kids as it was for us. Same can be said of what it was for us as it was for our parents. Some of it is good, some of it is bad.
2) Kids that graduate from an A&M System school deserve the "other education" that we tout so highly, just as much as anyone. Hard to do when you're campus has no intercollegiate sports (that's back on the home campus of that system school) nor the full range of extracurricular opportunities (ditto). Instead, it makes a sort of "DeVry Institute" situation.
quote:I am not discounting the idea of the new campus, just the unfounded idea that it will keep enrollment on main campus in check. Until you provide some statement from Dr. Young, or someone else in the know, about the lowering enrollment on main campus and how it relates to RELLIS, you are simply guessing. No one in any position of authority has said that the main campus will lower enrollment thinking a student will settle for the RELLIS campus. No one.
this will directly help keep the enrollment on main campus under control by giving an option for an "A&M experience" even though the student may not be enrolled at the flagship.
same rules apply here as at system schools, re: transferring policies. plus locals seem to be very excited that such a large investment is happening in a dead corner of town.
...what few have noticed is this will also drive continued economic growth in the area even if the main campus enrollment is capped...
quote:quote:How can anyone expect the same type of "other education" experience as most of us had when there are 80k students? Face it, folks, it isn't and won't be the same thing for our kids as it was for us. Same can be said of what it was for us as it was for our parents. Some of it is good, some of it is bad.
2) Kids that graduate from an A&M System school deserve the "other education" that we tout so highly, just as much as anyone. Hard to do when you're campus has no intercollegiate sports (that's back on the home campus of that system school) nor the full range of extracurricular opportunities (ditto). Instead, it makes a sort of "DeVry Institute" situation.
But I will say this much... with that kind of size, I have decided that it is no longer important for me to send my kids there. I loved my experience, but they would not get that experience, and they are more likely to get that kind of experience at a smaller school. And rankings be damned, it's not where you go, it's what you do while you are there that is important. If my kids go to A&M, great. But if they ask my advice, I'm going to suggest places like Tarleton, SFA and WT.
quote:Stop with the we don't like what Sharp and the BOR are doing with TAMU for "Political reasons." People don't like where the university is headed. It has nothing to do with politics.
Go back and read this thread from the start. There was never a plan for 80k students...this whole thread is based on a falsehood with the purpose of denigrating current admin for political reasons.
quote:Outrageous!!
This guy claims he "studied fishing at the Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi".
Thanks, Sharp!
Corpus Christi man catches massive 13-foot-long hammerhead shark off the coast of Padre Island
quote:This.
There's no plan to cap enrollment at any figure, is there? And political denigrating isn't the theme of this thread. It has occurred, yes, but that's not the primary discussion. Just put "for example" in front of each mention if that assuages your ire. The discussion is worthy either way. "80,000" is just a placeholder for "really huge enrollment".
quote:What does this even mean?
this will directly help keep the enrollment on main campus under control by giving an option for an "A&M experience" even though the student may not be enrolled at the flagship.
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What is really sad reading the jist of many here is that we are somehow holier than thou and not a land grant college. The purpose of which is to the people of Texas. I like where we are going. We will or have already eclipsed UT as the "university" for Texans.
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Our purpose in the state is to be a research University of the first class. (period)
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Eventually Aggies won't be distracted by the new stadium and will realize what a horrible job Sharp is doing. How far does A&M have to fall in the rankings before that happens?
Probably below Tech I guess. If even that is enough to say whoa.
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Our purpose in the state is to be a research University of the first class. (period)
This
The mission of a land grant university in 2016 is different than it was in 1862, before community colleges and most other universities existed.
quote:Well, our SAT scores at Texas A&M have gone down...not up...there might be something more to our fall in the USNWR than a strange idiosyncrasy.
Aww crap. Young failed UDub too:
http://www.seattletimes.com/education-lab/uws-performance-is-up-so-why-is-its-u-s-news-ranking-down/
