With nearly a 40 percent increase in applications received so far in 2009, Northern Kentucky University is reevaluating the way new students are admitted.
According to Joel Robinson, the associate vice president of enrollment management, NKU has already enacted an “assured consideration deadline” of June 1, 2009. He explained that any student who applied after that date may be denied admission based solely on capacity.
“I expect that for the first time in the university’s history we’ll have to turn away students who are otherwise qualified for admission,” NKU President James Votruba told students, faculty and staff at the Spring Convocation held April 15. “I believe this university can grow, but we’re going to need to be funded to grow.”
Robinson explained that the “combination of high demand from new students and limited capacity is creating a real challenge for NKU.”
To help combat this challenge, university officials are looking at ways to enhance admission standards in the future. One of the ways Robinson said is being considered is limiting the number of students admitted with remedial needs. Other options include implementing a waiting list and moving up application deadlines.
Under current admission standards, students are admitted into one of two categories: regular admission or admission with conditions. Students who are granted admission with conditions may have course load restrictions or cannot immediately declare a major.
To have restrictions, a student must show one or two areas of academic deficiency. If someone has three or more areas of deficiency, they must have “very strong grades,” complete a 5-week summer academy or they are denied admission to NKU.
Robinson said NKU has not yet determined how many students will be impacted by the limitations on enrollment. University officials are currently studying the capacity of the university to determine how many students can be admitted based on the number of current students who register for fall classes and the number of new students who confirm their enrollment by May 1.
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students with learning deficiencies usually come from areas with very poor (financially) school systems and poor neighborhoods. Therefore they won't have the same profit margin (how much the school can profit per student on tuition, plus the students spending while on campus) as a student that comes from a nice neighborhood and has money to blow on the campus' severely overpriced services (almost $8 dollars for a personal pan pizza at the food court that you can get at pizza hutt for $4). With more of these "financially stable" students on campus and with more of the "financially unstable" off of campus the school is expecting to see more of a profit from on-campus facilities (game room which was a horrible fail, food court, commissary store, theater, anything that directly pays out to the campus).
Another question is does all the colleges on the University Campus get the same funding as the other from the campus itself? NO. Any student can blatantly see that. The Art building primarily uses Apple computers which are insanely expensive for what components your buying (your really buying a logo). For every one Apple on campus you could buy 2 to 3 Windows or Linux based computers. Yet the Art building almost exclusively uses Apple. What about the 2.2 million dollar soccer arena? Yes most of its build cost is covered by the sad saps of Highland Heights, but who is going to pay the operating expense? Will it turn into another Bank Of Kentucky center dying to draw in customers to watch games/events/shows? Why is NKU so worried about making Division I in its sports section? Think about how much money UK makes from Rupp Arena when the Kentucky Wildcats play. Lots. NKU expects that if they make Division I that will equal more fans which will equal more revenue for the school, but to go where? I mean this is a Federally funded institution and in the sense the same as a High School in that it receives money from the Government every year, but yet has 0% oversight on how and where that money is spent, where as with a Highschool, if that highschool becomes stagnant and not progressing along with educational standards like others, they send in Oversight specialist to make sure the school is progressing.
Another even more important question is for The Northerner.
Do they tell you what to report? Most classic newspapers (think L.A. Times, N.Y.Times, even the K.Y. Post) try to uncover new and interesting scoops. Why not do a study on where funding goes at NKU? or something that REALLY matters and PERTAINS to students. Nobody really cares about things that you can readily tell are going on just by walking around campus (i.e. The baby abortion standoff on the plaza, bedbugs in Callahan) PEOPLE already know these things by simply talking to friends or walking around campus. Yet what they don't know is the things that go on behind the scenes, whats done when the doors are closed on budget meetings and so forth. Do some real reporting instead of ripping of Fox News Network.!!!!