Not sure how I would describe it today.
The question really should be - why can Baylor not balance its budget?
When I attended, we have five VPs. There are probably that many in each department these days.
Guy Noir said:
I checked Baylor's long term debt and the current debt amount is about $847. The debt seems to continue to grow.
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cowboycwr said:
This is also the result of pushing to get to R1 status. You end up with more Profs that don't teach and focus on research. So now you have to hire a teaching prof and you end up with two people where you had one before.
But the admin thing mentioned earlier is very true as well. Lots of people at the university level where their is one where no one seems to know what they do.
Guy Noir said:
I checked Baylor's long term debt and the current debt amount is about $847 million. The debt seems to continue to grow.
boognish_bear said:
We told our kids unless they got massive scholarships to not even think about Baylor. Even with a 50% scholarship it's hard to justify $45,000 a year for school that is not head and shoulders above a lot of the other ones. It's a shame because my wife and I really enjoyed going to Baylor in the 90s.
If they had gone to Baylor they would've been third generation Bears.
We've got one at UNT and one at TT.
ShooterTX said:boognish_bear said:
We told our kids unless they got massive scholarships to not even think about Baylor. Even with a 50% scholarship it's hard to justify $45,000 a year for school that is not head and shoulders above a lot of the other ones. It's a shame because my wife and I really enjoyed going to Baylor in the 90s.
If they had gone to Baylor they would've been third generation Bears.
We've got one at UNT and one at TT.
They probably won't get as much scholarship money from Baylor since 2 of my daughter's scholarships are only for girls.
Redbrickbear said:ShooterTX said:boognish_bear said:
We told our kids unless they got massive scholarships to not even think about Baylor. Even with a 50% scholarship it's hard to justify $45,000 a year for school that is not head and shoulders above a lot of the other ones. It's a shame because my wife and I really enjoyed going to Baylor in the 90s.
If they had gone to Baylor they would've been third generation Bears.
We've got one at UNT and one at TT.
They probably won't get as much scholarship money from Baylor since 2 of my daughter's scholarships are only for girls.
Baylor undergrad is already majority female (has been for a while)
But we still have scholarships that are only available to female students?
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Redbrickbear said:The system is collapsing in real time. In a decade higher ed will be unrecognizable from what it was prior to this decade. https://t.co/4bJF7xjybA
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LIB,MR BEARS said:Redbrickbear said:ShooterTX said:boognish_bear said:
We told our kids unless they got massive scholarships to not even think about Baylor. Even with a 50% scholarship it's hard to justify $45,000 a year for school that is not head and shoulders above a lot of the other ones. It's a shame because my wife and I really enjoyed going to Baylor in the 90s.
If they had gone to Baylor they would've been third generation Bears.
We've got one at UNT and one at TT.
They probably won't get as much scholarship money from Baylor since 2 of my daughter's scholarships are only for girls.
Baylor undergrad is already majority female (has been for a while)
But we still have scholarships that are only available to female students?
Today's Baylor may allow anyone's son to be a girl