(02-26-2016 09:28 PM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(02-26-2016 07:42 PM)Wilkie01 Wrote:  

(02-26-2016 06:03 PM)ken d Wrote:  Congratulations to Louisville. You are an excellent university. As for being a private school, nothing I've read in any links here or in any internet searches would lead me to call U of L anything but a public university. If Louisville was private under some definition, then so is UNC, and pretty much every university in the country.

I don't see where Louisville was ever private in the same sense that Wake Forest, Syracuse or Boston College are private.

B4 1969 Louisville was a City/Private school. It only got about 10% of its annual budget from the City of Louisville. It was a hybrid on how it operated.

You can't be a city school and a private school. Those two things directly contradict. Schools like Pitt, Syracuse, and Miami are named after cities, but not actually city schools. UL is not one of those, nor was it ever.

You really need to get over it. The school and everyone in the entire state have ALWAYS deemed UL to be private until the late 60s. I don't care what you interpret it to mean since you are not associated with it in any way and probably never have been -- including ever seeing the school. I went there, graduated from there, and taught there. I have lived in Louisville my entire 60+ years and have always known the history of UL. It was a big todo when they finally went into the state system as UK fought it like crazy.

The statement about private school tuition was only made in reference to the difference the rates charged -- for example back in the late 60s, while STILL private and even the early 70s ALL KY state colleges (including the community colleges) charged $140 a semester tuition for full time. UL charged $525 a semester -- typical of how private schools generally charge considerably more than state funded schools.