(04-16-2020 04:17 PM)eastisbest Wrote:  It's good to see any ID pop up here in these times BearcatM.

I knew they had purchased the land, the neighbors rightly were putting up a good squawk. I thought it a mistake then. But I don't think anything has been seriously sunk into that purchase. Worse case, they default the loan. The bank takes the property.

I imagine they have a higher percentatge of adjunct, which should make it easy to flex that salary cost to student population. When I say infrastruture and capital, I'm talking the type of expenses needed to run research labs, particulary heavy equipment labs like Engineering. They don't have that. They need to support classrooms and standard instructional Science labs. The Athletics yeah, different issue. Not sure why they got in to that. They did well but if necessary their costs to eliminate won't be anywhere near UT's, not even proportionally.

I'd think the primary matter as far as Lourde's survival is student population and as I said, I've heard no horror stories. They maybe got out of their lane a bit with the growth but they seem to have found and fill a niche rather well. Anyways, I don't wish them hard times. I hope the local institutions find a way to synergize and more than survive.