I don’t know that it would. They would have had to pay someone to remove everything and put it somewhere else for who knows how long and then pay someone to put it back and pay to renovate the building which they are doing anyway but everything new has been in the works for 10+ years. It’s not like it’s suddenly just been decided. And that building brings in money to the school as well

Fixed cost have not gone up for any reason other then mismanagement.

Tuition has increased by 30 percent in ten years. Fixed costs have not grown that much so where has that money gone?

It would have been cheaper to fit and renovate IMS. Not even Ivies go on the building sprees UConn does.

No it’s mismanagement. When you renovate a building, only to completely rip out what you did and renovate it again in a year, with high end materials, it’s mismanagement.

You'd rather be taught by community College professors lmao UConn has top notch scholars in their fields

Not a student lmao

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Community colleges are extremely vital and offers tons of certification courses from nursing to accounting to paralegals to manufacturing. We have a lot of high tech manufacturing companies in CT which are highly dependent on community college graduates, and people who graduate from our community college manufacturing programs have a 100% job placement rate before graduation.

UConn has its role as a research university and ConnCSU has its role as teaching colleges and university’s. I strongly disagree with your various comments that UConn is superior. It’s not. You can’t really compare UConn and ConnCSU because they are so different and they have different functions and they serve different purposes. UConn certainly has a lot of advantages as a research university but the state universities has a lot of other advantages over UConn as a teaching university.

This theory is dead in the water, a huge amount of waste occurs in purely administrative areas, that students never see or interact with.

UConn spends more in certain administrative categories then Ivy League schools do, so no none if it is warranted.

They even fleece their students for egregious amounts. For example, parking costs to park in agricultural Storrs, are far higher then what Yale charges to park in downtown new haven. There is plenty of space in Storrs, yet they charge like they couldn’t fit one more car in, not to mention pushing student parking to the periphery of campus while keeping central parking for administration. It’s disgusting.

I have seen this waste first hand. To add you your “spend money like a drunken sailor”, it’s true. They renovate and re-renovate buildings, pave and re-pave roads and redesign them, construct new buildings with lavish materials etc.

They recently had completely renovated a space in the central warehouse building for the parking services department. Less then a year later, they tore it all out and renovated again for the planning department. It looks like it’s out of a danish furniture style magazine. This is repeated around the university and most of it is in non-student spaces.

UConn spends money like it’s Yale or Harvard, and has a multi-billion dollar endowment to tap.

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The budget issue is UCONN not the lower tier system as I understand it.

Dump football, that would be a start.

Offering CCs for free would seem to explain budgetary issues I'd think

Then they probably should have budgeted for said upkeep and staff.

Are you saying get rid of the state votech High Schools? Or the trade offerings at Community College?

Unfortunately the state votech schools reject people (not enough spots) so some people need trade skills after HS, and cant get it during.

High school graduates in CT are allowed to attend the CCs for free. Seems like a good benefit to get people in trades or other certification jobs.

CCs offer things like dental hygienist and medical coding and billing that the votech system does not as well.

I was fortunate to serve in the student senate at my community college as well as at UConn and funding and the structure of the student governments is different.

Neither had Klebold and Harris's guns.

Neither had Cho's.

Neither had Husbands.

Neither had Holmes.

Neither had Crumbleys.

Neither had Lanza's.

Neither had McRae's.

Until they did. Your guns haven't killed anyone yet.

No it isn't. UCONN has objectively higher quality students looking at acceptance criteria. It is a legitimately difficult school to get into for many high school seniors who end up going to the other state school systems. Now if your argument is that more students from Simsbury, Avon and Glastonbury get in to UCONN and fewer from poorer towns like Bristol, Berlin, Norwalk then you probably have a point. But that isn't UCONN's problem to solve, that is either the town (because our k-12 is town based) or a larger state problem to fix education at that level before they get to UCONN.

UCONN has selective admissions, at least it has had that in the past 20 years. When I went to college 30 years ago UCONN was where you went as your safe school. No longer, for many kids it is their primary destination, partly because it is up to 1/2 as expensive as private schools.

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

UCONN SAT range is 1230-1430.

Im sure if you exclude research and research facility costs from uconn subsidies the per pupil spending would be much lower.

I don't know, you have all sorts of measures to pick from. SAT scores, place in graduating class, ability to attain academic or other scholarships, and more.

UCONN is far more competitive to get into in the first place. And as an instructor I can tell you without a doubt the quality of the students in my experience is far better than the CCSU and ECSU students I have known or even the Quinnipiac students I have taught. In my current class of sophomores I am blown away by the observable differences, both qualitatively (higher grades for same material) and quantitatively (writing and logic abilities).

Sounds like the same training with more cost and needless classes to me

Thats why there's talon of consolidation in the regional schools, fewer and fewer college freshman in the horizon.

Don't want to offend anyone but it's night and day in my experience. One uconn alumni we hire in private equity fund accounting is easily worth two from the regional schools in as far as productivity and room for promotion goes.

The discrepancy is even more pronounced 5,10,15 years after school. All the uconn hires who've left our firm are Assistant Controllers, Controllers, Directors, Vice President, CFO now and the regional school grads hit a cap or had a much much longer road to the same promotions.

Does this mean there aren't superstars at the regional schools, absolutely not, but if we're talking about the average 💯.

I would much rather be taken care of a doctor or nurse who did their undergrad or nursing program at uconn for sure.