FAU Soars in State Rankings
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bb said
Par for the course. Sun Sentinel gives us a front page "attaboy" and the PB Post doesn't even acknowledge our success. Wonder if they would have been this quiet if we had dropped in the rankings?
Of course not. You're right. At least the Sun Sentinel seems to be writing favorably about us right now and hopefully that will last.
For as good as this news is, we're still "only" 6th place so we certainly have room to keep improving. The number one metric the state seems interested in is the graduation rate (as it should be). To do that we need to continue attracting higher quality applicants, have them stay and finish here, hire faculty to ensure we can provide the classes they need and change our demographics to have more full-time students taking full course loads every semester.
But those are major movements and require more than a year.
So we're on the right track, and doing things like identifying students who had enough credits to graduate but hadn't and forcing them to graduate… why have we never done that before? I get the feeling like Dr.Kelly had his "get to know how you work" meetings with all the different departments who said, "We do things this way because of X,Y, and Z" and he just shook his head and said, "Ok but that's now how a university is supposed to work."
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Sun Sentinel: FAU on the move
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owl2Doc said
Not a whole lot of new information here at all but still kinda makes you wonder where we'd be if we had hired Kelly instead of Saunders because he clearly gets it and goes after what we need to do.Posted On: Apr 1st 2015, 1:55 PM #344100
Counterpoint: MJS boosted enrollment because state funding was based on full time enrolled students. Boosting enrollment (admitting too many lower quality students) was what brought it more money. Then the state pull the ol' switcheroo and we were left with our pants around our ankles.
Either way, losing that funding could have been a blessing in disguise since it forced pretty much every department in the University to look out how they do things. I've seen a lot of very positive changes taking place all over the University.
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