Well unless she was recruited upward by a better university of better job, her departure summarizes the viability of selling Valpo to students. Schur was an alumna with great passion for the school. And she brought a familiarity with the priority on HSI. How will that be replaced by a better fit for the job?
She was being asked to sell a $45,000 truck full of ice to eskimos who can buy the same trunk full from dozens of other truckers at $20,000. If she was let by "mutual decision" then Padilla is looking for a 5th person who can make that sale more often than her.
Interesting news - The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has revised its Fall report after realizing a methodological error, to say that Fall 2024 enrollments were actually higher (not lower) nation-wide. Sheesh:
(I remember we had a lot of chatter about this when it seemed that at least part of VU's steep enrollment downturn this Fall could be explained or excused by the FAFSA fiasco and contextualized by depressed enrollments on a national scale... But that seems not to have been the case after all, whereas unfortunately VU's particular enrollment drop was real.)
@realist77 Your $47,000 ice truck metaphor is pretty harsh, but I agree Sifuentes Schur had a tough task. With VU shooting itself in the foot so much with all the bad VU publicity and other headwinds, I would struggle to identify what she could have done differently these past <2 yrs- tho who knows? At any rate, its hard to see how MORE TURNOVER is going to help...
My assumption is that enrollments across public schools would cause that trend VUIndiana. Heard of a lot of kids who had to turn down private school offers over financial concerns. Heck. 2 football players just had to turn down offers over financial concerns. I know there is push to become a HSI, but with administration changes in Washington, and a focus on education reform. How long does the HSI program last theoretically? Or rather, how long does the HSI program continue to receive the amount of funding it currently gets.
Rez - I know that I am repeating a prior post, but some private schools were able to successfully work around the FAFSA problems by telling prospective students what they expected their financial aid to be. The students, if they attended the university, would then get the greater of the estimate or the actual - with the university making up the difference if their estimate was high. If you think about it, the costs are pretty minimal doing this. My understanding is that only 10-20% of private universities did this, but that (at least for my university) it was very successful.
