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[QUOTE="Millhouse, post: 377765, member: 78"]
They're increasing enrollment by becoming less selective. They don't have much to show for the money they're getting through those students (either directly or indirectly from student grants). I don't see the payoff in taking that money and putting it into Connective Corridor stuff, I would rather see it put more directly into teaching and research. They hit the top 40 and were very loud about it when I was in school (97 grad), which was a little embarassing (The school of management especially - huge banners - i wanted to tell them "congrats but simmer down a little for the love of god"). The school has gone down in the rankings and we dropped out of the AAU
 
They need to keep their rankings up to justify the huge price tag. Smart kids have cheaper options. I don't want SU to become an expensive summer camp. At this point, it doesn't matter so much to me that they're slipping in the ranking because college is rapidly becoming ancient history for me. But the rapid decline really hurts younger alums who didn't expect the school to stop being selective as soon as they graduated. They were probably too generous in admissions back when I went there.
 
It's not as good a school as when I was there, and really, it wasn't that great then.
 
Complaints about rankings methodology only goes so far and they've dropped quite a bit.  Some things are hard to measure but it's still worth trying. 
 
I don't know anything about her as a person.  I'm only talking about the results.
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