If you have no idea what you are talking about my advice is not sound like you do. When I was a student I was on the student advisory board to Chancellor Cantor. One of my best friends was Chancellor Cantor's daughter host while she visited her parents at SU. I was at Chancellor Cantor's daughter's birthday party at SU while her daughter was a student at Wisconsin. Chancellor Cantor during my years submitted inquiries into students thought on property in the city that she wanted to purchase. Even though my committee had no checks and balances power like the BoT did we told her that a lot of her spending wasn't in the best interests of the students. Chan. Cantor in her opinion went through with these purchases and the BoT okayed them as they were at the beginning of her time as Chancellor. IMO, as a result, to increase revenue Chancellor Cantor allowed admission to admit more students to make up the money we had to raise for her spending. Chancellor Cantor has spent a lot of unnecessary money with little return. You want to this into a conservative vs liberal thing which I have no interest engaging in. The next Chancellor can scale back spending without cutting jobs.
It's not a burden compared to the alternative if your degree is useful. I think the terrible useless majors are more scandalous than loans. Schools know better than to offer worthless paper like all these blank studies majors
I engaged in no such debate. Honestly I could care less your political leanings, nor about whatever connections you are attempting to establish, nor whatever your self proclaimed importance is to decision making at SU. You make trivial statements like she spent a lot of money on things with little return. She spent about 500 million of that on building upgrades and/or new buildings while concurrently increasing the student population about 25 percent or so. She runs a business. She spends money to make more money. It's really simple stuff. you sound like a disgruntled recent grad with a bone to pick.
What's the point? I mean wasn't one of your issues that GPAs fell? Did they actually? I mean if we're going to debate such important things such as US News rankings shouldn't we operate from the same set of facts?
There are lots of payment options, but using SUs average fed student loan debt of 24,300, and rate of 6.8 percent, payments over 10 years is 278 a month. The killer is grad school.
I believe when you say it now you weren't trying to turn this into a political issue, and apologize as I misinterpreted that statement, but Chancellor Cantor spent a lot of money duriing her time and I don't feel a lot of that spending helped Syracuse academically. She let in 25% more students which brought in a lot of new revenue to the University but made our acceptance percentage go up a lot and we became less selective. Syracuse isn't going to be a top 25 academic university but their is no business for our university to be outside of the top 50. I am not a disgruntled recent graduate I graduated from the University I donate to the Newhouse each year but I was never a fan of this Chancellor after having personal meetings with her. I would like hear all the good you think happened on her watch academically. Athletically moving to the ACC was done by the AD and not by the Chancellor. Newhouse 3 was going to happen to with or without her. Dean Steinberg gets hired at Maxwell without her presence as he accepted that job after she announced she wasn't returning. The new law school is all I can think of and I give more credit Dean Robin Paul Malloy for pushing that project. I would love to hear the academic accomplishments of Chancellor Cantor I call it the way I see it. She was a nice woman who treated me well, but I wasn't fan of her performance. She represented Syracuse University in a classy manner and worked hard but I don't her performance was good and the fact she is gone after 8 years without retiring says it all.
What do you perceive are the benefits to be of being 50 vs 62? Your education is still the same.
I like to humble brag with my friends and seeing our University sliding isn't something I like. Even though I went to Newhouse I had plenty of friends at the school who didn't I like the perception of our University to be as high as it can be to attract the best and the brightest to Syracuse University. If we weren't constantly sliding down in the ranking during Chancellor Cantor's tenure I would care a little less, but we have gone from 51 to 62 in 6 years which is not good. My education is great and helped me greatly and for that I am proud of my University but if you have don't have high expectations then what is the point. The one thing I always remember from Syracuse was what Prof. Charlotte Grimes taught my class "Don't settle for mediocrity" and that is exactly what I am saying why we shouldn't be happy if we are consistently sliding down. I don't like being mediocre and hope we can get back to the 40s and get even higher.
there's the top 10, maybe top 20, and there's the rest. you probably couldn't even name me all the top 10/20 universities on the list without looking. again, i understand it's fun to brag to your friends, and to some degree, it does have a marketing impact, but at the end of the day, don't get bent out of shape about it. my school took a 100%+ dive in rankings over 8 year period (heck, i think it was over a 3 year period). it would be nice to improve and get back to where we were, but if you look at the methodology, you will see have fluffy some of it is.
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