Posted by: pmp6nl
« on: March 07, 2011, 06:38:52 PM »Bills for reasons like this are fun, er not
IMO, the answer [of whether UND and NDSU should continue growing] is no. NDSU and UND are more than aptly serving the mission of educating those ND high school students that want a 4 year or advanced degree. At this point, further expansion of undergraduate enrollment serves only to use ND tax dollars to educate more students from Minn, Wisc. and other state's students from the student exchange programs.http://forum.siouxsports.com/topic/14097-enrollment/page__view__findpost__p__460428
It's not particularly helpful as those students just return to their home states anyway.
The much better purpose, IMO, is the expansion of the graduate programs and research activities, including partnerships with private companies in ND to conduct research and spin-off companies from research projects. That's the biggest benefit by far to the state. Undergrad students just help pay the bills.I'd rather see the state kick in more dollars than force the schools to expand undergrad size in order to fund research growth.