need to convert those apps to students now. feeling good about those numbers.
Craving a McBride Special!
I think it'd be best to focus on "butts in seats" and graduation rates. Don't get fooled by misdirection.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
A suggestion of "misdirection" can sometimes be "fake news"...or even outright pessimism.
The application uptick found its way into Chicago-area news outlets. I heard the reports myself. 😎 😎
(1) US COVID-19 statistics (February 29, 2020-June 16, 2020): 2,124,000 reported cases and 115,052 deaths
(2) Donald Trump (June 15, 2020) told a group of senior citizens that there would be very few cases of COVID-19 if the US stopped its testing and contact tracing: "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, actually."
(3) Donald Trump [(Jan 20, 2020), when asked if he's worried about a pandemic]: “No. Not at all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It’s — going to be just fine.”
A suggestion of "misdirection" can sometimes be "fake news"...or even outright pessimism.
The application uptick found its way into Chicago-area news outlets. I heard the reports myself.
I suppose it is a good thing SIU has never distracted the public regarding admissions.
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― Ayn Rand
Hopefully they can fill this position quick. Maybe the next person can continue the application increase and actually turn it into higher enrollment.
New data from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center provides a somber final tally of total college enrollment in the fall of 2021: It dropped 2.7 percent from a year earlier, a decline of 476,100 students.
Undergraduate enrollment, which was down at every type of institution, slipped by 3.1 percent — or 465,318 students — from the fall of 2020. The total decline among undergraduates since the fall of 2019 — just before the pandemic hit — was more than a million students, the center said.
“The best thing about freshmen is that they become sophomores.”
-- Al McGuire
