EMPORIA does a great job of meeting its goals. From fundraising projects to helping those in need, our community pulls together to achieve success.
But there is one goal that ESU president Michael Lane needs our help in meeting. He had a goal of topping last years enrollment at ESU and current projections show that enrollment may be down a bit this year.
Having ESU’s enrollment as high as possible is important because the university is a major economic engine of our community. The money spent by students, professors and the university circulates around our community many times over.
So here is the sales pitch. If you know a prospective student who was contemplating college but who has not made a commitment yet, why not encourage him or her to attend ESU? If you have a high school student living at home, why not enroll him or her in some classes at ESU? Getting a jump on college hours is important. Or, if you would like to further your education or pursue a graduate degree, ESU has many options.
The university is here to be used, so let’s use it. With the Jones foundation giving money to any 2008 graduate of a high school in Lyon, Coffey or Osage counties who attends ESU, getting an education is more affordable than ever.
ESU needs more students,so let’s help.
Why not talk to your friends and neighbors about enrolling today?
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Posted by Newsie (anonymous) on August 20, 2008 at 6:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
If you want more students, offer them something worth coming for.
Posted by USNretired (anonymous) on August 20, 2008 at 6:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I take Graduate classes and thoroughly enjoy the experience, while my son is an Education major. I do think that having more majors to choose from might encourage enrollment.
Posted by MisterO (anonymous) on August 20, 2008 at 7:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
ESU has great programs, a great staff, and very reasonable costs. If they are having trouble attracting students, it's not due to the University.
Try looking at quality of life issues in the community.
Are there nice places for the students to visit? Cultural attractions? Entertainment venues? Prospects for good jobs?
We do have some nice things in Emporia, and ESU offers a good education for a good price, but for quality of life in the community, I just don't think we compete very well with Manhattan or Lawrence.
Posted by JohnDoe (anonymous) on August 20, 2008 at 10:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
We also lack a lot of the hippies, weirdos, and riffraff that plague places like Lawrence and Manhattan. Don't believe me? Take a walk down Mass street in Lawrence during the school year. Not that we don't compete it's just that we're different here. There is no price that you can put on the close-knit, familiar-face environment that ESU offers. People say "hello" and you know a lot of your fellow classmates by name. KU and KSU can't offer that when their campus size is 25-30K and a gen-ed course can have nearly a thousand students.
Perhaps that's how we should start marketing ESU. Market an educational environment that's unique, realistic, and the others simply can't deliver. ESU: You're more than just a number! ESU: We won't make you camp out for tickets to athletic events! ESU: Our professors acknowledge/recognize their students outside of class. ESU: There's more to college than winning a bowl game!
Posted by ntmidtrfan (anonymous) on August 20, 2008 at 10:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)
So what part of the ESU experience was the Gazette trying to put out for the public to see with the choice of pics on the front page today? I see...come to ESU and sit out front of your frat house and drink beer everytime someone honks. No wonder everybody knows everybody... everyone just sits outside enjoyng this great weather drinking beer . Before I get flamed I know it happens and was a very funny sign to put out....I'm just asking if thats what Emporia or ESU wants on the front page of the newspaper that parents of students who will be making the choice for schools to see. Not the image I would want if I were president.....
Posted by citizen (anonymous) on August 21, 2008 at 8:22 a.m. (Suggest removal)
I am in the School of Business. We have soooo many students and not enough teachers. At this time are classroom are over flowing and are rooms are not big enough to accomodate them all. Professors are playing musical chairs with classrooms. PLEASE WE NEED MORE FACULTY!!!!!
Posted by mammawd (anonymous) on August 21, 2008 at 12:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I agree with ntmidtrfan! this is not the first time an "attractive" picture about ESU has been put on the front page of The Gazette. Does anyone remember the beer/alcohol decorated snow man and Christmas tree last year? For heaven's sakes there are tons of GOOD things on Campus especially during the block party to take pictures of!
If I were a parent looking at campuses (which I have been 3 times now) that would not appeal to me at all! If you think they don't pick up the paper and check out community happenings, you're wrong!
I also thought it was interesting that this picture was posted right below the big hoopla about "clean air"!!
Items to attract students? ATTRACT PARENTS! It's usually their money paying the way. Community offerings are a very important factor. Shopping? Banking? Job Opportunities? Recreation? Housing? (By the way the houses and apartments in that area are pretty poor overall! - can you say SLUM LORDS???) Friendly acceptance by the community? Oh back to the picture again... is that the image we want the community to parallel with ESU - a bunch of drunk, rowdy kids!!??? So the community isn't very receptive of the students sometimes.
When we visited campuses we had a check list and those are the items that were on the list. We would spend 2 or 3 days in the city where the campus was located and check it out and visit with the locals and other college students. 3 of our children would have loved to stay at ESU (3.0 - 4.0 students-non-athletic though) but guess what...no scholarship $$ offered except the ACT $ which they only get their freshman year. One professor told us "We typically earmark the scholarship $ for out of town students" ... yeah those kids stay here after graduation!!! Or we could be big donors to ESU and the alumni assn. that would have helped. Ok...if we had the money to donate we probably wouldn't need the scholarships! Another question - if a student is on a full ride scholarship and they get busted for drugs and alcohol why don't they lose that scholarship??
Full rides were offered and some very good out of town universities! So our children AND our money (and plenty pocket change gets spent outside of the campus) is going out of town and our kids will probably not come back "home" after they graduate because "there is nothing here.." A town of 25,000 + and "there is nothing here". Sad.... but IF they liked to spend their money on kegs of beer and live the party life the Gazette advertises that very well. I wonder if those young men are on scholarships? Oh and AFTER they get good and silly...the Emporia Police Dept. can issue them tickets for MIP and DUIs. There are plenty of those in the paper too!
Posted by Newsie (anonymous) on August 21, 2008 at 8 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The photo may not be pretty, but it does accurately reflect a certain aspect of college life. Like it or not, it is reality, and that is what a newspaper must portray.
Posted by JohnDoe (anonymous) on August 21, 2008 at 10:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
College kids party and have fun. That's old news folks, it's been happening for decades. I think we can all agree there are many more dangerous ways to have fun than sitting on a couch drinking in your front lawn. Unless I'm mistaken, no one is causing a drunk-driving accident if they don't leave home. Seems pretty harmless to me. If your children (or college students in general) can't tell when it's time for fun and when it's time to get serious and study, they will fail in the real world too.
College is a time to experience life and learn outside the childhood home. Accordingly, that means taking the good with the bad and having enough common sense to make the right decisions. If you look hard enough you'll find that same kind of behavior at nearly every college, even at the private colleges. It's just a factor of the age group. Deal with it and move on.
Posted by orlando (anonymous) on August 21, 2008 at 10:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How about getting rid of the run-down house at 12th & Exchange(site of the beer-can tree of a couple years ago)? It has been sitting empty for many months,and seems to look more delapidated every time I drive by. What a good impression that must make on prospective students (and parents).
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