Part time is another reason.
Being in a metro area, we have a lot of non traditional students that take a lot of years to complete a degree, or never do because life gets in the way.
Quakity if students is an issue to a degree as well, but our standards have been rising for years so as long as that continues it should be less responsible for the low four year grad rate.
Once again Charlotte didn’t get permission from folk in the Big House to do something that benefits/enhances Charlotte, and the Big House folk get their baby blue panties in a wad. Assholes.
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or possibly purple in this case as well…
clt applauds dubois for this. This is a bold move to go against the mothership.
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Actually the System Chairman is the one who needs to know his role, and that role is not one of overseeing whether or not UNC Charlotte builds a hotel with its own money. He’s entiltled to his opinion as a private citizen and Dubois and the University are entitled to ignore that opinion.
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They don’t like the idea of us taking small to mid-size academic conferences away from the Triangle (Charlotte is much more fun) and post-docs and junior faculty will love our campus when they see it and be more likely to take jobs here.
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Where is the Bonnie Cone statue? The Sugar Creek Greenway has statues of historic Charlotteans. Putting her statue there would be appropriate because Charlotte College started at the Central High campus. The Sugar Creek Greenway is next to CPCC, where Central High and Charlotte College were located.
it is at our Center City campus. Your idea is a good one though. Also, she ABSOLUTELY should have a statue on campus as well though.
Unless there are 2 statues, then THE one should be on our current campus.
No one can have anything nice except for UNC Cheat I guess. I will be donating to this project through the foundation just to stick it to this jackass.
As far as our graduation rates go. Are they giving us any credit for all the grads that start somewhere else and finish here? Cause it’s a lot. As previously noted by another poster we are a large city with many non traditional students. This isn’t a fucking little liberal arts college in the mountains. Get a grip dude. We have like 100K alumni and growing
As far as the idiot who said we had plenty of hotel space in the area, you don’t think he’s not pleased that a non profit will be the owner here do you? This hotel is more than reasonable for the area. Not to meantion the fact that the area is poised for massive growth.
Thank god this is outside UNC Board control or we could kiss this goodbye.
Jesus we can’t do anything without people getting pissy in the triangle. How the HELL did we get the train to campus?? I’m shocked they didn’t pass a law that forced Charlotte to end the line before it crossed Harris blvd.
Honestly this school is getting so big that it’s going to start growing exponentially just because of size, impact on our city and alumni base and influence.
Would everyone please get the hell out of the way please?
Why not go find another campus to give discounted tuition to that doesn’t need it (yes I’m looking at you WCU)? Just leave Charlotte alone.
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clt loves the idea of donating to this project, and then emailing a copy of the Venmo to the board chair.
We should breakaway from the UNC system and form the University of Charlotte system. Other states have multiple public university systems.
I did have a plan for that. I’ll repost it below.
University of North Carolina System: University of North Carolina, UNC Greensboro, UNC Pembroke, UNC Asheville, UNC Durham (Currently NC Central)
East Carolina University System: East Carolina University, ECU-Elizabeth City (Currently Elizabeth City State), ECU-Wilmington (Currently UNC-Wilmington)
North Carolina State University System: North Carolina State University, NCSU-Fayetteville (Currently Fayetteville State), NCSU-Greensboro (Currently NC A&T), NCSU-Winston Salem (Currently Winston-Salem State)
University of Charlotte System: University of Charlotte, UC-Concord*
Independent Universities: Appalachian State, Western Carolina
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Good luck getting politicians to agree to fund that.
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Most of the politicians are tar heels. They don’t get the benefit of raping all the other schools in the same system for their benefit that way. Never happens. Our only hope of not being in the system is if some benefactor donates a billion and we break off.
clt says that hotel NEEDS a rooftop bar
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Now that would be the place to go Friday night on home football weekends.
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Rooftop bar would be a great spot for clt to tether the zep on game days.