Ed Schollmaier
Fire Jeremiah Donati. Really. He needs to go.
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Eight
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not only do i find it tough to believe joe would care about the situation at tcu, but joe has been dead for a bit of time
long enough in fact that even though he was an attorney we can safely say he is dead
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HG73
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Was trying to make a joke, dead ut booster runs our athletic department. Not my best, but with this crowd you never know.
Pharm Frog
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Well you did make me think for more than I should have.... Kept thinking “How could I have missed that connection? Is there some tie-in to the estate? How would that work?”
flyfishingfrog
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he's dead....
flyfishingfrog
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to be honest that sounds like a TCU Faculty member who thinks they have more power than then they do.
But let's face it - our faculty is a big bunch of whiner ass scared babies only concerned about themselves not the school masquerading as socially conscious "leaders" of our children.
School aged children across the entire state have been going to school in person all year with lower rates of COVID repercussions to the faculty and staff at those schools than in the general population - even though the buildings infrastructure is older, maintenance funding is lower, the classrooms smaller and the student populations are higher than at TCU.
But somehow the staffs virtue signaling makes them think they are in it for the greater good of the TCU community and I guess the 'world'
In 10-15 years when they are largely replaced by online Cognitive Automation and NLP/G AI bots delivering over 50% of content and industry specialists doing the rest via Adjuncts - I wonder if they will realize this was the year that they allowed the start of that movement and it was their own fault.
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The movement started long ago when market forces were removed from the college education equation.
Anybody can now take selected online classes created at Harvard and MIT for free.
at a time when the delivery of information has never been cheaper, “higher education” is more expensive than ever. Unsustainable.
oh but our children are entitled to the “college experience”. What’s that, living with no limits in their years most vulnerable to drugs and alcohol? In TCUs case, living in dorms that are more nicely appointed than their own family’s homes?
it’s nuts.
ticketfrog123
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the dorms are nice, maybe even too nice in most scenarios but the average TCU student has a new Lexus if you survey the student parking lots.
I think their homes might be more outrageously opulent than the dorms.
Eight
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made this comment a while back, but our youngest was very interested in attending tcu until she attended a few summer camps.
came back from the second and she asked me if it would bother me if tcu moved down her list and i said it was her choice. did ask her why the change and she said she coiuldn't relate to any of the high school kids at the camp or the students she interacted with. said she was one of the few who had a job and she was fairly certain she was the only one who bought her own car.
tcumaniac
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This is such a bummer, but not surprising.
The makeup of our student body has radically changed over the past decade. Fewer and fewer middle to upper middle class Texans, and more and more extremely affluent elites from the coasts.
ticketfrog123
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its not coasts plural. Just California.
I think Eight’s child is older than you so it shouldn’t be too surprising.
@Eight what kind of camp was it? I could see the day camps being predominantly southlake kids.
I don’t think the student body as a whole is snobby Uber rich like SMUs, but the cost increase over the past decade is insane.
Eight
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she is 24 and the camps were through the business school.
majority of the kids stayed on campus in the dorms and went out at night with the college students who were counselors. one camp involved accounting in some capacity and the other was on investing.
too much bourbon ago to remember correctly and this is the busy season for her
HG73
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So, I'm in your head now?
Pharm Frog
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I’m not sure what y’all are talking about regarding the dorms being nice but I’ll take your word for it. The TCU dorm room that my daughter saw on her tour in the winter of 2016 was easily the second worst dorm she saw among all of her campus visits.
Pharm Frog
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Nope. Joe Jamail was for longer than he should have been.
ticketfrog123
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as a TCU alum I expect you to be able to name the dorm.
last I heard, only 2 dorms have not been renovated since 2010. More than 6 have been renovated or built new since 2015.
I think Clark and Foster are the only two in need of update since they’re over 15 years old
TCU admin / tour department ain’t stupid enough to show the old dorms...I hope.
where did she end up attending college?
Pharm Frog
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Why would an EMBA alum be expected to know the names of residence halls? I don’t even know the name of the Rec Center where I used to take my family to swim and taught my children not to call me “dad” too loudly.
She ended up attending college at my undergraduate alma mater (and Mrs Pharm’s) which is Angelo State. Got her degree in three years and lived in a residence hall that was like luxury living compared to my RA days on the 10th floor of the Men’s High Rise. And far better than what she was shown on the campus tour although they did say they had nicer, newer halls. Three years...degree...no debt...gainfully employed with a salary I didn’t see until my early ‘30’s and bonus potential to boot. Thanks for asking.
tcumaniac
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I turn 30 later this year. Shocking, I know.
My freshman year at TCU was more than a decade ago. Based on my anecdotal experiences on and around campus and interviewing and hiring interns over the past few years, I think there's definitely been a pretty dramatic shift in culture since I stepped on campus in 2010.
