(03-26-2022 07:51 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(03-26-2022 07:49 PM)Dusky Wrote:  

(03-26-2022 07:42 PM)JCMiner Wrote:  

(03-26-2022 05:09 PM)BlueRaiderBoy Wrote:  Glad we weren't some "high falutin" academic institution when I attended Middle half a century ago. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten in. Seriously, I am very proud of MT's R2 designation. But it is long overdue. On the other hand (as I come back down to earth); it is noteworthy that 4 of the current CUSA schools are R-1 as follows: FIU, Rice, UAB, and Southern Miss. 5 other CUSA schools are R-2 as follows: FAU, La Tech, Marshall, ODU, and Charlotte. When CUSA 4.0 settles in we are adding only one more R-2: New Mexico State to the academic brag and will see seven depart for either AAC or Sun Belt, respectively.

I think all the Texas CUSA schools are R1.

UTSA is an R2

https://www.utsa.edu/today/2022/02/story...tonio.html

Just came across this thread. Thanks for stepping in on behalf of UTSA's status as R1. +2

(03-28-2022 07:48 PM)ThreeifbyLightning Wrote:  The consent decree stipulated unrealistic standards for Tennessee Board of Regents institutions while limiting certain schools essentially penalizing them because they were predominantly white. These types of restrictions were placed on TSU after WWII for what I'm assuming were in fact racist policies; however, the same policies were then flipped onto schools like ours as a result. The courts forced UT Nashville and TSU to merge which turn out to be a complete cluster.

One such restriction that hurt us was that no new programs could be installed at MTSU unless TSU was given the right of first refusal and only if they allowed it to go through. This had a chilling effect on our ability to add doctoral and other research programs.

The bottom line or end result were decades of quagmire where rolling stipulations, dozens of lawsuits, attempts at mediation, etc. mostly failed and allowed hundreds of millions of dollars to be thrown at TSU often at the expense of other schools in the state - especially MT.

If you really want to dig into it...
https://www.tba.org/index.cfm?pg=LawBlog...ntry=29526

Didn't $millions of that Geier money that went to TSU end up missing ?

clt says congrats mtsu!

Charlotte is on the way to R1: https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-featur...sification

Good job!

(03-29-2022 01:38 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says congrats mtsu!

Charlotte is on the way to R1: https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-featur...sification

Figured y'all were already there since your school is so similar to ODU. Best of luck on this goal.

Coingratulations MTSU! This is what is really most important.

(03-29-2022 04:05 PM)ODUDrunkard13 Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 01:38 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says congrats mtsu!

Charlotte is on the way to R1: https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-featur...sification

Figured y'all were already there since your school is so similar to ODU. Best of luck on this goal.

clt says thanks pal. Charlotte would not issue a press release if this wasn’t already in process.

(03-29-2022 01:38 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says congrats mtsu!

Charlotte is on the way to R1: https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-featur...sification

ODU2011 says this is neat. Hopefully lowly Charlotte can achieve this goal one day.

(03-29-2022 07:45 PM)ODU2011 Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 01:38 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says congrats mtsu!

Charlotte is on the way to R1: https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-featur...sification

ODU2011 says this is neat. Hopefully lowly Charlotte can achieve this goal one day.

clt says your 95% acceptance rate is a great fit for the lowly sunbelt

(03-29-2022 07:49 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 07:45 PM)ODU2011 Wrote:  

(03-29-2022 01:38 PM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says congrats mtsu!

Charlotte is on the way to R1: https://inside.charlotte.edu/news-featur...sification

ODU2011 says this is neat. Hopefully lowly Charlotte can achieve this goal one day.

clt says your 95% acceptance rate is a great fit for the lowly sunbelt

Odu2011 says the sunbelt is trying to improve their academic standings while the AAC takes a hit from lowly FAU and Charlotte. ODU2011 has concerns of Charlottes performance on and off the field.

ODU2011 wonders if The few FAU and Charlotte fans spent more time on productive activities outside of giving rep and trolling on the internet it might improve their standings.