New University Funding Model Proposal

[Tatanka]

Look no further than the nickname bill!!

[abc123]

Heard on the radio someone sponsored a bill to remove NDUS institution cities and purposes from teh state constitution. Bravo, but that will unfortunately go nowhere.

HB 3008

If nothing, hopefully it will at least start the appropriate conversations.

[GRAFTONBISON]

HB 3008

If nothing, hopefully it will at least start the appropriate conversations.

This (10 char)

[Tatanka]

HB 3008

If nothing, hopefully it will at least start the appropriate conversations.

Don't get me wrong, it is absolutely the right thing to do, it just won't ever get done.

[GRAFTONBISON]

Don't get me wrong, it is absolutely the right thing to do, it just won't ever get done.

This as well

[Bison bison]

Genius!

Start with a per-credit rate skewed toward the little guys, then skew it MORE! towards them with a few 'adjustments'!

[WYOBISONMAN]

HB 3008

If nothing, hopefully it will at least start the appropriate conversations.

Absolutely. I think the school at Ellendale was the only one ever shut down, and if I recall correctly that was because a fire took out most of the buildings. I believe that resources were then shifted to start UND-Williston which then became Williston State (or East Side High to those of us that lived in Williston.)

[MAKBison]

Maybe, but the reasoning supposedly behind it is that NDSU is defined as an ag school and some of the other schools are defined as teacher colleges and have grown beyond those descriptions. If people would actually educate themselves on this vote I don't see how it wouldn't pass.

NDSU would not change its status as its the state's Land grant school as per federal Morril act

http://ext.wsu.edu/documents/landgrant.pdf

[bisonaudit]

Maybe, but the reasoning supposedly behind it is that NDSU is defined as an ag school and some of the other schools are defined as teacher colleges and have grown beyond those descriptions. If people would actually educate themselves on this vote I don't see how it wouldn't pass.

It won't pass because the issue isn't that schools have grown beyond their descriptions. The issue is - if you take them out of the Constitution which, crucially, specifies their location, they're easier to close or consolidate.

[fargocyclone]

It won't pass because the issue isn't that schools have grown beyond their descriptions. The issue is - if you take them out of the Constitution which, crucially, specifies their location, they're easier to close or consolidate.

This also applies to NDSU since all references to it have been struck out too. Then again so has UND. Wait, no, I found UND:

The school for the blind at the city of Grand Forks, in the county of Grand Forks or at another location as may be determined by the legislative assembly to be in the best interests of the students of the institution and the state