Quote Originally Posted by LefseBison View Post
Administration has been saying this for years. "Next year will be better." If UND has gone up and MSUM has gone up and, what I am hearing, NDSU is going down in enrollment (we will wait and see), then it is on NDSU Recruitment as it proves they are doing a poor job. And NDSU has its own tuition-free program. So double down on blame to them.

I get steamed when NDSU does not sell itself better than it does. Nobody to blame but themselves. Bad, lackadaisical recruitment in some of the colleges.

One of the professors told me a year ago that she was sick and tired of recruiting materials having a huge focus on the football program. The Bison football program is an icing-on-the-cake thing but not the main reason 99% of students come here.

** Also Valley City State has consistently gone up in enrollment. I am on their mailing list for some reason (I gave them a small donation once and they never give up on me) and so I get lots of their stuff. Excellent salesmanship of the university. If I had had kids, I might have sent them there.
I don’t disagree with much of that. Our recruiting and marketing people really dropped the ball in the last 6-8 years. Once it stopped being easy, they didn’t step up at all….