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JCCR90 t1_j8wc1th wrote

Reply to Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

UCONN is research university as well so much of their research funding is captured in the per pupil figure which is misleading.

Also throw in the subsidy for housing costs. UCONN houses most of its students while regional schools are largely commuter students.

With all this being said though it makes total sense to spend more for the elite state school because school rankings matter. I would wager uconn alumni drive more value to state economy than regional university and community colleges do. There's a reason why average SAT scores differ the way they do between CT state schools.

We've hired several fund accountants over the years at our firm and there's an incredible difference between those we hire from uconn vs southern/western. My 2c for what it's worth.

Edit-for clarity and as a factoid I pulled the below from US Weekly

Southern Connecticut SAT range is 900-1130, 25th - 75th percentile.

UCONN SAT range is 1230-1430, same percentile range

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Fun-Cockroach8339 t1_j8wb2n5 wrote

Reply to Do local town cops have jurisdiction on Merritt or rt8 for example? I seems I only see State Police pulling people over. by Imispellalot

Local PD would be legally allowed to stop someone on any road that goes through their municipality, for example New Haven PD could stop cars on 91/95, however the jurisdiction for what incidents that happen on the highway would fall to CSP. As a matter of practice, local police generally don’t patrol CSP jurisdictions and vice versa. Also, any officer has the authority to make a felony arrest anywhere in the state.

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DystopianRealist t1_j8vujsw wrote

Reply to comment by HazelFrederick in Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

While the cost of a bachelor’s degree has been going up at extreme rates nationally, UConn tuition is getting to the point where going out of state can be more affordable, and at equally good or better universities.

Mismanagement and poor development choices have been an ongoing problem at the “snores” branch.

I’m too tired to dig into comparisons right now, but if I recall SUNY out of state is cheaper than UConn in state. Amherst, UMass as well. I use those for proximity and similar cost of living in the states.

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btudisca95 t1_j8vom0x wrote

Reply to Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

Wow this post hits the nail right on the head! I have worked for both university systems now and I will say the CSCU system vs UConn are so vastly different it’s amazing that CSCU even survives. I currently am back working for the CSCU system and worked there previously before going to UConn and it amazes me at how fucking wasteful UConn is. They are however the 4th branch of state government basically and the second they whine they get what they want. This is very reminiscent of when Herbst was UConns president and lost her mind because budget cuts weren’t gonna allow her salary to reach a million a year.

If you look at the state employee expenditures the top 10 highest paid state employees are all UConn or UConn Health employees. The real issue is that the state just shovels money into the burning fire pit that is UConn Health. It’s unprofitable, it’s expensive, yet no one wants to admit that it’s just a useless taxpayer expense.

We are the 3rd smallest state in the country but we have 2 completely separate public university systems, larger states like Massachusetts and even New York don’t have 2, you get one SUNY or UMASS. Someday the state will realize that it can’t just keep lighting money on fire and force something to be done.

However, back to the original intent of this post, as a CCSU graduate and now a current staff member I think that the state of CT really needs to reconsider its investment in the 4 CSUs, COSC, and the Community Colleges, as stated, they provide the highest number of graduates compared to UConn and they also provide the highest number of graduates who remain within the borders of the state and contribute to the economy more than UConn graduates do.

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ragggaerat t1_j8vnkn9 wrote

Reply to comment by Odd_Total_5549 in Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

Ive been secretary of some UConn clubs. Thats not the way funding works. Theres a vote by students for senators. Senators choose to increase tuition so stuff like jerseys are attanable. My highscool teacher said the same thing. Popular misconception. At least with the satellite campuses. Most of the monye for clubs comes from students tuition directly. Sorta like a gym. everyone puts money in it but only a tiny percentage uses it.

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Odd_Total_5549 t1_j8vez0r wrote

Reply to Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

I’m on the student senate at one of the CT community colleges (don’t wanna dox myself and say which one). For the last month or so we’ve been debating whether or not to fork over $11,000 of our student activities budget to pay for insurance so we can start a basketball and soccer intramural league for the students. We were going to do flag football too but it would have been too expensive.

There’s a massive demand for sports with the students that have been polled, and the coordinator has referenced some data that athletics programs can be huge for retention. Remember, we’re talking about community college where keeping kids showing up is a massive deal. One completed semester can give someone who thought they had no shot at college the confidence to get their degree.

The money we’re thinking of allocating would represent about 20% of our semester budget. This budget is the money that pays for all student activities, every single club or event is funded by this money. Hopefully the fact that we’re about to use 20% of that money just to cover 11k, which would be pennies for most schools, so we can have something as fundamental to a school like UConn as an extremely modest athletics program (kids wearing reversible jerseys twice a week and playing in the high school gym down the street) can give some perspective at the gap in funding here.

Just today the faculty advisers were lamenting that class sizes are being raised from 25 to 30 students in the fall, and that classes will be canceled more quickly if not enough students have enrolled before the semester.

Honestly the complaints you’re saying UConn is making sound painfully tone deaf. I graduate this semester and have applied to UConn, so maybe if I go there I’ll start to understand why their president needs two mansions. But for now, yeah seems kinda shitty.

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yolagchy t1_j8vdlhb wrote

Reply to comment by Gooch__Gobbler in Community Colleges, State Universities, and UConn by BobbyBuzz008

Could not agree more! I have spent 6+ years at UCONN getting my Ph.D and I can tell you there is so much corruption and mismanagement going on! In particular, SoE Dean is incompetent, that is where cleansing should start from. I am sure UCONN can be a lot more efficient and productive, and there is room for that to happen. I am not against new engineering buildings, I love them especially the last one (science I), but I can’t say same things for the scientists in there. Last time when I heard, management was cutting subscriptions to scientific journals and only few were left freely accessible. And guess what? Accessible journals were all used by dean of SoE or Radenka. I hope best for the UCONN but with the current management I just can’t see much improvement happening. Painful it is!

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