(05-06-2014 03:50 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  

(05-06-2014 03:40 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  On the flip side could this party school perception help get more students to enroll at NIU?

Yes, but is that the crowd NIU want's to be attracting?

Based on Bakers several newsletters that NIU is desperate for increased enrollment for survival, I don't think we can be picky if they qualify academically and stay qualified.

Reporting out of Chicago that only talks about the bad stuff doesn't help. I think part of the reason we get more good recruits out of the south is that those recruits aren't listening to the biased Chicago reporting about NIU being a den of iniquity.

(05-06-2014 03:56 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  

(05-06-2014 03:50 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  

(05-06-2014 03:40 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  On the flip side could this party school perception help get more students to enroll at NIU?

Yes, but is that the crowd NIU want's to be attracting?

Based on Bakers several newsletters that NIU is desperate for increased enrollment for survival, I don't think we can be picky if they qualify academically and stay qualified.

A lot of kids that are attracted to party schools don't make it that long. It won't really help long term and will only add to the problems NIU faces already. I think the Communiversity planning can help, but NIU needs to become more well known for it's academics. They already attract a lot of kids for their business program, maybe if they were to choose another program to boost and become "known" for, it could help enrollment.

(05-06-2014 03:50 PM)timxlydon Wrote:  

(05-06-2014 03:40 PM)HuskieJohn Wrote:  On the flip side could this party school perception help get more students to enroll at NIU?

Yes, but is that the crowd NIU want's to be attracting?

yes, they are called interested college aged persons.