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Spring Trustees Meeting

TCUdirtbag

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What's the latest on the hotel at Berry Street and McCart? We haven't heard much and I hope they updated the design to look more like the style of the TCU campus or like the one at Okie State.

Approved by the city. Lot closed. Design is unfortunately basically what’s been circulated.
 

TCUdirtbag

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Understand that some of them are saying that the culmination of the big $ campaign in 2023, (our 150th birthday) with a goal of $1 billion will coincide with what they assume will be Boschini's final year at TCU. Better get it now, while he's here, they're saying. He's been a champion $ raiser for us, no doubt. Amazing to compare what TCU looked like when he came with what it looks like now.

Long way from a final decision but certainly possible. Or the president/chancellor role could be split and duties reduced. Lots of possibilities. Plenty of time.
 

Surfrog

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Screen Shot 2019-04-09 at 8.37.55 PM.png Ran some numbers. Holy [ Finebaum ] this is not sustainable.
5% increase average every year since 2012 and no sign of slowing down. The bubble has to burst at some point or the middle class simply goes away.
 

Atom

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Co-founder of Home Depot helped. I recommend watching the piece. It's not a propaganda piece.

Not singling you out but anybody else notice "piece" is being used to refer to just about anything lately?


Weird comment. Back to my hole.
 

LeagueCityFrog

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Who pays for the community scholars program, aka the free ride based on where you went to high school? Surely not TCU parents paying $60,000 a year. Honestly, who pays for all those scholarships. When I was there, the girl I knew that got that community scholarship out of Fort Worth flunked out.
 

TCUMed

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More and more, it seems TCU buries trustee press releases. Here are the highlights:

- FY 19-20 budget is $777 M
- Endowment payout will be $71.8 M
- 2019-20 undergrad headcount cap is 9,500
- 2020-21 Med school tuition up over $60k
- Capital budget and sale of bonds approved but no public announcements on what any new projects are (note: the next big ones coming down the pipe are the Sadler redo and BLUU expansion)
- Lead On: A Campaign for TCU will have a public launch in October. This capital campaign has already raised $538 M in leadership gifts. My understanding (may be outdated info) is the total campaign goal will be $1 B and will conclude with the university’s 150th anniversary in 2023. Particular emphasis on endowment, so you can look for a lot of things to be named after folks—programs, professorships, deanships, maybe even unnamed departments and/or colleges—as part of the effort to raise big sums for endowment funds.

More details:
https://www.tcu.edu/news/2019/board-of-trustees-spring-meeting-summary.php

They also doled out some emeritus faculty titles for some retiring folks that I bet a lot of us had or heard of —- Donovan (Provost), Lipscomb (finance), and Lahutsky (religion) among them.

The medical school tuition rate is absurd if that isn't including cost of living, fees, etc.. If that's true, I don't know what TCU thinks it's offering as far as an advantage over Texas state schools which are 1/3 the cost. Having been through the whole ordeal and recently paid off my med school loans, I think TCU will be unnecessarily saddling it's future graduates with tremendous debt. Honestly, any given medical school might help you get to the residency program you desire, but ultimately your success in practice will be built on your hard work and the skills you learn in residency. Med school is a necessary step to becoming a physician, but my advice to applicants would be avoid this debt if you can (especially if you're doing primary care). TCU will have to crush it in the Match (where med students match to their desired specialty) for competitive applicants to consider paying more money to attend a school with less prestige currently than other medical schools who are also far cheaper. My fear is the less competitive applicants will end up at TCU because of these factors. I hope Boschini and all have a good idea what they're doing
 

LeagueCityFrog

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The medical school tuition rate is absurd if that isn't including cost of living, fees, etc.. If that's true, I don't know what TCU thinks it's offering as far as an advantage over Texas state schools which are 1/3 the cost. Having been through the whole ordeal and recently paid off my med school loans, I think TCU will be unnecessarily saddling it's future graduates with tremendous debt. Honestly, any given medical school might help you get to the residency program you desire, but ultimately your success in practice will be built on your hard work and the skills you learn in residency. Med school is a necessary step to becoming a physician, but my advice to applicants would be avoid this debt if you can (especially if you're doing primary care). TCU will have to crush it in the Match (where med students match to their desired specialty) for competitive applicants to consider paying more money to attend a school with less prestige currently than other medical schools who are also far cheaper. My fear is the less competitive applicants will end up at TCU because of these factors. I hope Boschini and all have a good idea what they're doing

TCU knows there are parents out there that will pay whatever it takes for their kid to get into medical school and they will provide a bill to those parents willing to pay. I hope the federal government starts putting caps on how much they guarantee that they will loan. This last point is why the US leads in student debt. I think there should be a cap around $15k and of they cant figure out to come up with the difference either ask the school to give them a scholarship if the school wants them that bad or they find a school better adjusted to their price point. Mark Cuban made this arguement about a decade ago.
 

Wexahu

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TCU knows there are parents out there that will pay whatever it takes for their kid to get into medical school and they will provide a bill to those parents willing to pay. I hope the federal government starts putting caps on how much they guarantee that they will loan. This last point is why the US leads in student debt. I think there should be a cap around $15k and of they cant figure out to come up with the difference either ask the school to give them a scholarship if the school wants them that bad or they find a school better adjusted to their price point. Mark Cuban made this arguement about a decade ago.

Higher education is just a big for-profit business disguised as something else. Not sure when the breaking point comes but there’s no way in hell costs can keep going up at the current pace and the system can sustain itself.
 

BABYFACE

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The middle class is going away.
If we are talking the USA, then yes, that is the endgame of the American socialist movement. If TCU, then also yes due to the very high cost to attend TCU.

Plenty of students now that come from the means that allow living off campus in luxury town homes and driving luxury cars. Unlike the days back when us older ones were driving Nissans and living in apartments by Hulen Mall. Thought I was living the life back then. Good times.
 

Wexahu

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If we are talking the USA, then yes, that is the endgame of the American socialist movement. If TCU, then also yes due to the very high cost to attend TCU.

Plenty of students now that come from the means that allow living off campus in luxury town homes and driving luxury cars. Unlike the days back when us older ones were driving Nissans and living in apartments by Hulen Mall. Thought I was living the life back then. Good times.

A Nissan and an apartment off Hulen? You were living the life.
 
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