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Do you think KU should raise admission standards?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on November 26, 2012
“I don’t think so. How important is education in this country? Lawrence is a great town, why not get more people here?”
“ Sure, why not? If they are trying to look like a more prestigious school, then yes. ”
“ I say yes. If you want elite students, raise the standards.”
“ No. It’s a state university supported by the state and should accept in-state students.”
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Comments
Andini 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Yes. No more people like CWGOKU.
RoeDapple 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I don't think KU cares what I think . . .
geekin_topekan 5 months, 3 weeks ago
In the new White Republic of Kansas, the dark kids shall remain forever an underclass. We will defund their schools, blame their parents for not having better jobs and leave them to beg for whatever school funding is left over.
In higher education institutions, the admission standards shall reflect this effort by being set just above what the underclass would be able to achieve with their meager funds.
We will give tax exemptions to those who will employ the underclass. This will ensure that we will always have white-majority in power, the underclass will be forever in our service.
LarryNative 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Good parenting makes smart kids, not schools.
jayhawklawrence 5 months, 3 weeks ago
In order for KU to become a leader in education, they have to have a courageous vision and commit to it. You have to wonder why it took so long to propose something that is really a no brainer. Whatever is motivating this, I would take it as a win-win. I would focus on quality and not quantity and find ways to work more with Community Colleges, High Schools and Votech Programs which may include apprentice programs involving industry.
Government leaders are looking at Community Colleges as being able to provide more of what we need as a nation to prepare our workforce today and in the future.
Community Colleges are doing a much better job of providing training and skill sets that people can actually use right away. KU needs to find the right balance by working closely with other educational assets in the area by looking at them as partners and not competitors.
If we expect higher standards in our students, then we are cheating those students if we don't expect higher standards from our teachers. Students arriving at KU should be better prepared and their expectations for higher learning should be met with the highest quality teaching possible.
It is time for KU to take a leap forward and address many issues if they want to be a great University known for something other than basketball.
Eddie_Haskell 5 months, 3 weeks ago
by Eddie_Haskell
OTSSweeper 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Whose ego needs a boost?
geekin_topekan 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Larry said: "Good parenting makes smart kids, not schools."
Blaming their already underrepresented parents is in the first clause of our Constitution here in the new White Republic of Kansas.
On the Dream Act: "If my parents robbed a bank (a crime), do I get to keep the money?" Answer: No, but you do get to go to prison with them.
rockchalker52 5 months, 3 weeks ago
What 'zactly do they want folks to admit to? Everyone's guilty of something.
CWGOKU 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Fine with me, I have my diploma... or is it, I gots my diploma...
In_God_we_trust 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Colleges were created to provide an education to those who, in the public, desire an education. It was not intended for a college to be "elite" or educate only the "elite rich". It was not intended for a college, especially a State funded college such as KU or KSU, to regulate who they can accept, just so they look good or better than the next college, according to what club they let in. If KU wants to "raise the bar", they should do it without State funding. All State funding should be cut and returned to the tax payers.
irtnog2001 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I think anything resulting in smaller class sizes and better teachers (i,e, fewer TAs) is a good thing. However, if this is not the result it will not work in raising KU's reputation or the education it provides undergraduates. Like it or not, this is a tax supported school and it is time for the citizens to join this debate and make their wishes known.
bd 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I agree!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Are they not doing that already through tuition hikes?
jayhawklawrence 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Don't drink and drive.
Eddie_Haskell 5 months, 3 weeks ago
If anything they should lower them so they can make more money. They already have a lot. Hell, they're still paying Turner Allen off. But I guess you can never have too much money. If the standards are the same as they were in the 80's then they're pretty low. I hardly ever went to class and I gadjiated. Actually I think the whole KU experience contributed to my alcoholism. I should sue them.
Eddie_Haskell 5 months, 3 weeks ago
"Lawrence is a great town, why not get more people here?”
Yah, why not? Let's get more kids to come to Lawrence to fill all of the crappie minimum wage jobs since there's nothing else in this desolate wasteland of a town.
Eddie_Haskell 5 months, 3 weeks ago
"Did you know they even let kids in that don't know how to skin out a deer or fillet a crappie?"
And we can skin a buck; we can run a crop line And a country boy can survive Country folks can survive
Eddie_Haskell 5 months, 3 weeks ago
"I graduated cum laude from a good law school."
I doubt it. I retained you once and you were awful. I would have been better off defending myself, you jerk.
JackMcKee 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Yes. Without a doubt.
JackMcKee 5 months, 3 weeks ago
P.S., I think you're missing Taylor's photo.
mountainbiker 5 months, 3 weeks ago
trot line
not even gonna explain what the snood is........
Thinking_Out_Loud 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I think Tom Long's point would be valid, if there was actually substantial state support. I wonder if it's time for the state to just stop pretending and unfund its universities.
avarom 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Maybe KU is afraid to raise the standards.....they want to increase attendance, not decrease it!!
Binder1 5 months, 3 weeks ago
I've not forgotten the time I went with a friend to the Union building to get his bus pass. I waited with him in line, and there were two newly admitted students behind us. At one point I began paying attention to their conversation, and it went like this:
"No, I didn't. Which one did you end up with?"
"I got stuck with anthropology."
"What's that?"
"Study of insects or something."
I remember thinking, "How are you here?!"
Ware 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Good points.
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