Edwardsville vs Carbondale

[IWokeUpLikeThis]

Carbondale forgot to sign a prenup.
http://www.sj-r.com/news/20180506/siu-s ... over-funds

[jsaluki080]

Breaks my heart to see SIU struggling so much

[Jsnhbe1Birds]

The proposal would essentially be a death sentence for Carbondale by giving all medical portions to Edwardsville.

[Sir Sci]

I have a lot of family in Edwardsville, including some that went to SIUe. I'll have to ask what they think about all of this.

Also, reading that there's been nine chancellors at SIU since 2000 (I didn't know that) makes me thankful that after Missouri State experienced an abrupt presidential retirement and then a guy that only lasted a year, that President Smart has brought stability to the school. We could be going through the exact same thing otherwise.

[IWokeUpLikeThis]

More mud-slinging
http://thesouthern.com/opinion/columnis ... e-trending

SIU system prez wants to “shut up the bitchers from Carbondale”

Any bets for SIUE’s name in 5 years?
Lincoln State Stovepipes

[Fraydog]

I have a lot of family in Edwardsville, including some that went to SIUe. I'll have to ask what they think about all of this.

Also, reading that there's been nine chancellors at SIU since 2000 (I didn't know that) makes me thankful that after Missouri State experienced an abrupt presidential retirement and then a guy that only lasted a year, that President Smart has brought stability to the school. We could be going through the exact same thing otherwise.

SIU certainly could have had that with Don Beggs. Letting him go was really where a lot of the problems started.

[BCPanther]

9 Chancellors since 2000??

UNI has had 11 Presidents.....ever. Pushing 150 years.

Well run state you folks live in...

[GoSIU88]

9 Chancellors since 2000??

UNI has had 11 Presidents.....ever. Pushing 150 years.

Well run state you folks live in...

Hey, we're also on our third Saluki message board because an outsider has the keys to the kingdom and runs off anyone who doesn't fit his narrative.

It is what it is...

[Fraydog]

There’s logic in keeping the schools together. The state rep for my area, Costello (Red Bud-D) thinks the system should be kept together. He’s an alum of SIU Carbondale but there is also a fair number of SIUe alums in this district as it cuts from Chester up to Belleville and west to Waterloo.

That said, I don’t blame the Edwardsville people for being mad when the Edwardsville campus loaned $30 million to keep the Saluki campus up and running. Carbondale has all the money it needs right now, what we have is an administrative class that is simply too large for a campus of our size. That has to be adjusted. SIU is also in an economically depressed region with a large section of families that can’t afford tuition. Kids who need education or liberal arts degrees can go to Murray or SEMO and get in state tuition or do two years in the community college system and finish at those places. Thanks to the cuts in Illinois higher education and the continued administrative growth, SIU isn’t affordable any more. Add in the perception of violence in Carbondale and you have a formula for sinking enrollment.

The message board nonsense is a tempest in a teapot, one I already addressed. That said, a lot of the administration including the Chancellor and the President are also outsiders. So, if you want to extend that logic to the administration, then by all means please do that. We have let quite a few people who would have been successful at running SIU who were Salukis like Don Beggs and Larry Dietz go and they went to Wichita and ISU to have successful tenures as Presidents. We need a Saluki to run the system or at the very least to run Carbondale.

[IWokeUpLikeThis]

SIU President Randy Dunn might be missing “the bitchers from Carbondale” after lawmaker tells him to “Go to hell”
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/loca ... story.html