UConn fans/grads. Does it bother you to add that huge sum of undergrad.s? Call me a snob but that feels like watering down student caliber for the sake of growth. 2B nothing to sniff at. Thats awesome for yall. I'm just curious how fans feel when their school suddenly adds huge chunks of population (vs. Tulane which adds maybe 100)

(02-02-2013 12:10 AM)JDTulane Wrote:  UConn fans/grads. Does it bother you to add that huge sum of undergrad.s? Call me a snob but that feels like watering down student caliber for the sake of growth. 2B nothing to sniff at. Thats awesome for yall. I'm just curious how fans feel when their school suddenly adds huge chunks of population (vs. Tulane which adds maybe 100)

I think UConn is doing everything it can to be a major, top-tier university ... like UVA, Michigan, Cal, etc. We were the #19 public school in 2012. The goal is clearly the top 10.

One of the few criticisms of UConn, when comparing it to other major public schools, is that UConn is "small" with only 15,000 or 16,000 undergrads. I guess they want to push that over 20,000.

Over the last 20 years, the administration has done well at expanding the number of undergrads and improving incoming test scores. They apparently believe that they can continue this trend. It's a delicate balance, which has been made easier because more students (with better academic backgrounds) have been applying to UConn.

And having more Huskies is a good thing. It will help us with our travel numbers to bowls.

(01-31-2013 04:52 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2013/01/ucon...nitiative/

Just got this email from our president:

Quote:To the University Community,

I write to you today to share some very exciting news for UConn – and the entire state of Connecticut. Earlier today, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced a proposal to invest $1.5 billion in the future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education at our university.

Under his plan, we would be able to enroll 6,500 new undergraduate students; build STEM facilities to house expanded materials science, biology, engineering, cognitive science, physics, and genomics programs, to name a few; construct new STEM teaching laboratories; hire 259 new faculty above and beyond our current faculty hiring plans; and create a premier STEM honors program, among many other major advances.

This bold, visionary proposal would help build the STEM workforce that Connecticut needs in order to be economically vibrant and successful, while new faculty members and facilities would enable UConn to secure more federal research dollars, which drive discovery, patents, and new businesses.

This is, without question, one of the most – if not the most – significant higher education proposals in the nation today, and certainly the most significant when it comes to the STEM fields. It is a great example of Connecticut leading the way and using its flagship public research university to drive economic development.

We are, as always, so grateful to the governor for his continued leadership and confidence as we work together to build Connecticut's future. We look forward to working with him and our other elected representatives as this proposal moves through the legislative process.
For a more detailed explanation of this proposal, please read our UConn Today story.

Susan Herbst
President, University of Connecticut
president@uconn.edu

Private schools can talk about endowment, but there is nothing better than a state that's willing to be the sugar daddy for its flagship university. This is on top of $1B state committed last year on UCONN's health care center for research.

We have the same thing in NC in regard to UNC...despite having a 16 school system. They get the bread...the rest of us get the crumbs. It is what it is.

(01-31-2013 06:58 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  

(01-31-2013 04:52 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2013/01/ucon...nitiative/

Just got this email from our president:

Quote:To the University Community,

I write to you today to share some very exciting news for UConn – and the entire state of Connecticut. Earlier today, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced a proposal to invest $1.5 billion in the future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education at our university.

Under his plan, we would be able to enroll 6,500 new undergraduate students; build STEM facilities to house expanded materials science, biology, engineering, cognitive science, physics, and genomics programs, to name a few; construct new STEM teaching laboratories; hire 259 new faculty above and beyond our current faculty hiring plans; and create a premier STEM honors program, among many other major advances.

This bold, visionary proposal would help build the STEM workforce that Connecticut needs in order to be economically vibrant and successful, while new faculty members and facilities would enable UConn to secure more federal research dollars, which drive discovery, patents, and new businesses.

This is, without question, one of the most – if not the most – significant higher education proposals in the nation today, and certainly the most significant when it comes to the STEM fields. It is a great example of Connecticut leading the way and using its flagship public research university to drive economic development.

We are, as always, so grateful to the governor for his continued leadership and confidence as we work together to build Connecticut's future. We look forward to working with him and our other elected representatives as this proposal moves through the legislative process.
For a more detailed explanation of this proposal, please read our UConn Today story.

Susan Herbst
President, University of Connecticut
president@uconn.edu

Private schools can talk about endowment, but there is nothing better than a state that's willing to be the sugar daddy for its flagship university. This is on top of $1B state committed last year on UCONN's health care center for research.

It is easy to be the sugar daddy if you use other people's money. Do you think that Connecticut families are undertaxed? Connecticut has one of the highest tax burdens in the country. Income taxes at very high rates, high property tax, high gas tax etc. It is one of only a few states that tax people that inherit money, even relatively small amounts of inherited money. With its proximity to NYC, Connecticut should be a growing state. It is not. Its wealthier families are leaving, just as they are in New York State, California, Illinois and other high tax states.

Is it right to force people at the point of a gun to support Universities that they have nothing to do with? This same topic comes up everywhere where there are state supported schools. Personally...On principle I say NO...even though I attended one. All of this has lead to the boom a boom of University growth and an atmosphere in which kids think that they can not succeed without a college degree. Of course..that is nonsense. Way to often...all that gets accomplished is the waste the fruits of the labor of the parents that pay the tuition bills. Honestly...We have too many schools and too many graduates coming out with almost zero practical skills preparing them for the workplace. They would have been better off at a technical or trade school environment.

(02-02-2013 09:37 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(01-31-2013 06:58 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  

(01-31-2013 04:52 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2013/01/ucon...nitiative/

Just got this email from our president:

Quote:To the University Community,

I write to you today to share some very exciting news for UConn – and the entire state of Connecticut. Earlier today, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced a proposal to invest $1.5 billion in the future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education at our university.

Under his plan, we would be able to enroll 6,500 new undergraduate students; build STEM facilities to house expanded materials science, biology, engineering, cognitive science, physics, and genomics programs, to name a few; construct new STEM teaching laboratories; hire 259 new faculty above and beyond our current faculty hiring plans; and create a premier STEM honors program, among many other major advances.

This bold, visionary proposal would help build the STEM workforce that Connecticut needs in order to be economically vibrant and successful, while new faculty members and facilities would enable UConn to secure more federal research dollars, which drive discovery, patents, and new businesses.

This is, without question, one of the most – if not the most – significant higher education proposals in the nation today, and certainly the most significant when it comes to the STEM fields. It is a great example of Connecticut leading the way and using its flagship public research university to drive economic development.

We are, as always, so grateful to the governor for his continued leadership and confidence as we work together to build Connecticut's future. We look forward to working with him and our other elected representatives as this proposal moves through the legislative process.
For a more detailed explanation of this proposal, please read our UConn Today story.

Susan Herbst
President, University of Connecticut
president@uconn.edu

Private schools can talk about endowment, but there is nothing better than a state that's willing to be the sugar daddy for its flagship university. This is on top of $1B state committed last year on UCONN's health care center for research.

It is easy to be the sugar daddy if you use other people's money. Do you think that Connecticut families are undertaxed? Connecticut has one of the highest tax burdens in the country. Income taxes at very high rates, high property tax, high gas tax etc. It is one of only a few states that tax people that inherit money, even relatively small amounts of inherited money. With its proximity to NYC, Connecticut should be a growing state. It is not. Its wealthier families are leaving, just as they are in New York State, California, Illinois and other high tax states.

Is it right to force people at the point of a gun to support Universities that they have nothing to do with? This same topic comes up everywhere where there are state supported schools. Personally...On principle I say NO...even though I attended one. All of this has lead to the boom a boom of University growth and an atmosphere in which kids think that they can not succeed without a college degree. Of course..that is nonsense. Way to often...all that gets accomplished is the waste the fruits of the labor of the parents that pay the tuition bills. Honestly...We have too many schools and too many graduates coming out with almost zero practical skills preparing them for the workplace. They would have been better off at a technical or trade school environment.

I agree. But I'm glad UConn is getting the money.

(02-02-2013 08:21 PM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  

(02-02-2013 09:37 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  

(01-31-2013 06:58 PM)vabearcat Wrote:  

(01-31-2013 04:52 PM)SF Husky Wrote:  http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2013/01/ucon...nitiative/

Just got this email from our president:

Quote:To the University Community,

I write to you today to share some very exciting news for UConn – and the entire state of Connecticut. Earlier today, Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced a proposal to invest $1.5 billion in the future of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education at our university.

Under his plan, we would be able to enroll 6,500 new undergraduate students; build STEM facilities to house expanded materials science, biology, engineering, cognitive science, physics, and genomics programs, to name a few; construct new STEM teaching laboratories; hire 259 new faculty above and beyond our current faculty hiring plans; and create a premier STEM honors program, among many other major advances.

This bold, visionary proposal would help build the STEM workforce that Connecticut needs in order to be economically vibrant and successful, while new faculty members and facilities would enable UConn to secure more federal research dollars, which drive discovery, patents, and new businesses.

This is, without question, one of the most – if not the most – significant higher education proposals in the nation today, and certainly the most significant when it comes to the STEM fields. It is a great example of Connecticut leading the way and using its flagship public research university to drive economic development.

We are, as always, so grateful to the governor for his continued leadership and confidence as we work together to build Connecticut's future. We look forward to working with him and our other elected representatives as this proposal moves through the legislative process.
For a more detailed explanation of this proposal, please read our UConn Today story.

Susan Herbst
President, University of Connecticut
president@uconn.edu

Private schools can talk about endowment, but there is nothing better than a state that's willing to be the sugar daddy for its flagship university. This is on top of $1B state committed last year on UCONN's health care center for research.

It is easy to be the sugar daddy if you use other people's money. Do you think that Connecticut families are undertaxed? Connecticut has one of the highest tax burdens in the country. Income taxes at very high rates, high property tax, high gas tax etc. It is one of only a few states that tax people that inherit money, even relatively small amounts of inherited money. With its proximity to NYC, Connecticut should be a growing state. It is not. Its wealthier families are leaving, just as they are in New York State, California, Illinois and other high tax states.

Is it right to force people at the point of a gun to support Universities that they have nothing to do with? This same topic comes up everywhere where there are state supported schools. Personally...On principle I say NO...even though I attended one. All of this has lead to the boom a boom of University growth and an atmosphere in which kids think that they can not succeed without a college degree. Of course..that is nonsense. Way to often...all that gets accomplished is the waste the fruits of the labor of the parents that pay the tuition bills. Honestly...We have too many schools and too many graduates coming out with almost zero practical skills preparing them for the workplace. They would have been better off at a technical or trade school environment.

I agree. But I'm glad UConn is getting the money.

For sure....This issue has conflicted me for a long time. I get a laugh out of the word "investment" that is used to justify this. I get the reference..but..it comes down the dichotomy between "the seen and the unseen". Sure...We see nice campuses and growth of the Universities and we believe it if for the public good. What we fail to see is the damage done to the personal incomes of those that are forced to support this though coercion and that of the parents that pay for their kids to get a useless education. The whole thing has gotten out of hand.

(02-02-2013 09:37 AM)Fo Shizzle Wrote:  Is it right to force people at the point of a gun to support Universities that they have nothing to do with?

There are probably thousands and thousands of city, county, state and federal entities and departments that people have "nothing to do with" but citizens still end up paying some type of fee/tax to support them.

Congrats to UConn this Will go a long way for the Connecticut students future. Should try to get General Electric and ESPN to increase scholarship funding also.