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[GCWaters]

Hhmm ... lets see. 2024 - 14 = 2010

So if I am reading this correctly, we just beat the old earmarks of the Chapman era, but with competitive funding instead of pork. I would say that's pretty damn good

In response to your previous comment, so far the fall 25 cohort suggests that we are indeed turning it around, and with only modest growth in on-line programs

Yes--the Chapman years saw a lot of growth in a lot of research areas, but federal funding was always much lower than it should have been, and much of it was earmarks and not competitive . With Fitzgerald in the VPRC office, things are really moving and in a good way.

With regard to online, I don't think so much about programs as classes. In their heyday, when Lisa Nordick ran DCE and before Bresciani and Ingram shut her down, NDSU's strength was in offering a fairly large variety of online courses that students could take when they had a scheduling conflict--with another class, with work, etc. I think NDSU has to, first, make sure that's solid--reliable online offerings that help students with scheduling. Then add a limited number of targeted fully online programs. We have a few, but they're hidden--virtually no one knows about them. That's going to be our wheelhouse, I think, not hordes of students filling numerous online programs. That means our numbers will likely continue to be below UND's, but I think that's ok.