re: Henderson State gutting most of its academic programs, cutting 88 jobs

Of all the programs that survived, I am completed surprised it was the physics department. It's tiny and graduates like 5-10 students a year.

Rev, you and you’re kinfolk are satan worshipping child rapists??

nope... But the way things are moving in higher ed, the rules, the pronoun descriptives, the lack of religious symbolisms allowed, the push towards inclusiveness of all things allowed. Man, it is getting really odd even in the more rural areas of our nation.

I don't go as far as Harry is above, but things have vastly changed in 12-15 years and not in a great way!

just terrible....

Had a bus driver in our hometown with a sticker on the bus that said, "We kneel for the cross and stand for the anthem"

an athiest in town threw a fit and cause a major uproar with the schoolboard, etc. She had to remover the sticker.

I get it, I really do. But it has gone from.. "Don't bring up your personal beliefs on religion" to "anything that can be considered religious in thought, or deed must be thrown out immediately"

Yet, he, she, it, they, gay, trans, tri, gore, fem, are all allowed to be discussed and even studied at some of these universities.

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SAU and Henderson are better off being glorified technical centers and churning out teachers and nurses than anything else. 

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Don't ever compare the two. SAU is one of the better run universities in the state and they actually have their own 2-year technical college/votech as part of their system.

SAU also has been growing in enrollment for years (pre Covid) and is back to around its previous levels. They don't even have enough housing on campus as it is, and are about to build a hotel next door to accommodate more visitors.

Its also located in a very resource rich area of the state, where is quite a bit of small industry between Camden (defense companies), and Magnolia and El Dorado (timber, oil, lithium, and bromine).

SAU is also the only college southbof LR with a PhD program (I think it's in some type of education).

Henderson has always been known as a school that basically anyone could get a degree from. Even going back to the 60s and 70s, that's where your dumb friends went to get a coaching degree. I know multiple people around 50-60 yrs old that did just that.

It's also doesn't help that Henderson has OBU right next door. I know different demos of students and all, but still, they are at quite a disadvantage. I also believe Arkadelphia is in a dry County. Which is just insane now for any college town.

There is still a need for schools like UAM, SAU, Ark Tech, Henderson, etc. It sounds like Henderson's major downfall was atrocious leadership under their former administration. Colleges also cowtowing to Covid hysteria also didn't help.

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hey won't even have a biology, mathematics, history, or music degree program any longer.

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Will have B.M.E (Bachelor of Music Education) and B.A. Music.

Waiving out of state tuition for bordering states was a game changer for UofA.

I'd bet a 1/3 of students there are now from Texas, or maybe more. It's also probably why you've seen such growth at places like UCA...which was a DII school in the early 00s.

Rev, looks like you pissed off at least 3 she/he/its, but they were too cowardly to respond to your post actually

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Tennessee fan, frick off

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I'm midstream of attempting a tRant troll