But is that sushi bar really such a bad idea? Yeah it was dismissed as a pointless luxury with a vague “caliber of student allusion, but this reads like a college that is really struggling. How can any college sustain those kind of enrollment drops? At some point you need to try something different in your desperation to attract more students. Sometimes marketing is more important than anything else.
We had a similar thing with my kids high school. All of us parents were upset at the huge increases of tuition, new coaches, the rebranding, the partnership with a sports academy when ours had been more academic …… then they closed. We found out how much they had been struggling. Some of the changes were desperately trying to reverse enrollment drops, some were desperately trying to court major donors, and some were necessary as staff realized what was happening and left for better opportunities. In hindsight, I can’t really complain, and only wish they had succeeded in turning it around
Yeah, I didn’t address the sushi bar thing for that reason, to be honest. Part of being part of a team is that you have to hope that your other teammates know their area. It sounds ridiculous to us, but maybe admissions saw or thought something different.
That sucks about your kids’ school. It’s terrifying that I feel like this is a more and more common thing.
The problem is that there are solutions (ie. reduce admin salaries) that can be used to offset the issues in an actually meaningful way, and they aren’t taken.
But is that sushi bar really such a bad idea? Yeah it was dismissed as a pointless luxury with a vague “caliber of student allusion, but this reads like a college that is really struggling. How can any college sustain those kind of enrollment drops? At some point you need to try something different in your desperation to attract more students. Sometimes marketing is more important than anything else.
We had a similar thing with my kids high school. All of us parents were upset at the huge increases of tuition, new coaches, the rebranding, the partnership with a sports academy when ours had been more academic …… then they closed. We found out how much they had been struggling. Some of the changes were desperately trying to reverse enrollment drops, some were desperately trying to court major donors, and some were necessary as staff realized what was happening and left for better opportunities. In hindsight, I can’t really complain, and only wish they had succeeded in turning it around
Yeah, I didn’t address the sushi bar thing for that reason, to be honest. Part of being part of a team is that you have to hope that your other teammates know their area. It sounds ridiculous to us, but maybe admissions saw or thought something different.
That sucks about your kids’ school. It’s terrifying that I feel like this is a more and more common thing.
The problem is that there are solutions (ie. reduce admin salaries) that can be used to offset the issues in an actually meaningful way, and they aren’t taken.