Fall enrollment ndsu

[GCWaters]

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….

[LefseBison]

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….

The whole point of a university is to educate students. Operative word - "students." If you don't recruit them well - sigh. We all know what happens when enrollment is down - affecting staff numbers.

I hope I am getting worked up for nothing. I am a hot-headed person and then I cool down.

[HerdBot]

I heard it is not down "a little." One person who knows her stuff told me they did NOT promote the free tuition very much for North Dakota and Minnesota students.

Recruitment/marketing people have a JOB. DO IT. Lazy. There is a lot of competition for student dollars.

Yep. Marketing has always been mediocre. It's more than marketing though. It's about networking and reaching students years before they enroll. Not 6 months before

[LefseBison]

Yep. Marketing has always been mediocre. It's more than marketing though. It's about networking and reaching students years before they enroll. Not 6 months before

I wrote Bresciani years ago a letter when I noticed their marketing/recruiting tactics were not done well. It was a very detailed letter with some of the strategies employed by other close-by universities that I noticed as a mere alumna. I didn't expect a response and I did not get one.

But when the enrollment numbers come out (and even if they are okay) I am going to try again, this time with Dr. Cook and Provost Bertolini. It is, for me, exasperating when they do not wonder why numbers are consistently down. I looked at the graph of enrollment numbers for the past 6 years or so and it shows a consistent decline. Off the top of my head, the high of 14,500 (or so), then every year after, going down. Last year, 11,952 or so. Meanwhile, dorm complexes were built to handle the anticipated influx of students projected to occur by President Bresciani (remember the magic number of 18,000)? What a memory that was.

Why do I care? I ask myself that on a daily basis, not only about NDSU but other things. It is a waste of my paper, printer ink and postage.

[Winterborn]

Welcome to it: https://www.google.com/search?q=enro...hrome&ie=UTF-8

You were ready or you were not.

And it is only going to get worse. The college landscape is going to be very different in the next 10-20 years.


https://wordsandnumbers.libsyn.com/e...lue-of-college

[BISONBRI53]

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….

Sounds like our AD

[GCWaters]

Sounds like our AD

Complacency has been an administrative theme…probably learned it at a retreat or something….

[WhoRepsTheLurker]

Hey don’t kill the messenger guys but I’m hearing NDSU is already up for fall compared to last year, and if my slope reading skills are correct, I would say it’s still climbing at a decent clip

[LefseBison]

Hey don’t kill the messenger guys but I’m hearing NDSU is already up for fall compared to last year, and if my slope reading skills are correct, I would say it’s still climbing at a decent clip

Wow - well the rumor mill may be wrong? If so, I am really glad!

[tony]

Hey don’t kill the messenger guys but I’m hearing NDSU is already up for fall compared to last year, and if my slope reading skills are correct, I would say it’s still climbing at a decent clip

I won't believe it until I hear legislators complaining.