Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Some feedback from the forum
Here’s a video from the latest Upon Further Revue show with Nate and Josh. Brooks Collier was able to attend as were a couple of my cohorts, probably around 50 people showed up. The weather was pretty dank and cold that morning, so that’s understandable. The tailgating lot wasn’t really jumping till around 1pm IMO.
The biggest things that came out of it were 1) we need more money 2) the kind of revenues we’re getting need to be looked at. The revenues they mentioned were 60% based on donations and game revenues while our budget is currently 35%. Now much of that is because of our supplementing it with student fees.
Hopefully there will be some things that show up in the report that give our administrators something to work towards. With 25,000 enrollment being on the near horizon we’ll be looking at conference affiliation sooner than we think.
Personally I’m with Nate on this currently, I just hope that we can finally get the answers that we seek and then we can see how our various administrative groups (Grube, Baker, and Mulherin) respond to reaching them.
The year 2010 is a long way away, but not so far that we can’t have our plans moving that way. I’m definitely excited to read more about what these guys are putting together for recommendations and such.
When: Saturday, October 18th, 2008 at 10am EST