(04-23-2014 07:40 AM)runamuck Wrote:  

(04-22-2014 06:21 PM)JCGSU Wrote:  Not a source of pride for GS, but we have only been a university since the 90's. Most of our old alumni are pre university status retired schools teachers to this point. The College of Business passed the College of Education a while back so things should get better in the endowment area like with most things in the near future.

that's where the everyman schools are at a disadvantage. the privates have always had wealthy students who become the movers and shakers and bid donors later on. the everyman schools have the programs like engineering and computer science and education that lead to good careers but fewer of those grads make it to the big money and donate millions back to dear old U.

True, but GS is still growing and improving at a rapid pace. In just the last five years we added 4000+/- students with plans to add another 5000 more in the short term,expanded the masters programs, added degree programs, two new colleges (engineering and technology), and are continuing to add doctoral programs despite the board of regents being dead set against adding another doctoral university in the state even though the population has exploded the the two decades. Honestly twenty years ago people would have died with laughter if you would have asserted where GS is today much less having the third highest SAT scores among the large universities in the state. To put it in perspective in 1960 when we became a Georgia Southern College the enrollment was around 1100, when we started football in the 80's it was still a small local college with about 6500 hundred students, in 1990 when we became a university there was only 11000 students, today we are classified nationally as a Carnegie Doctoral Research institution with 20500 students. I'm just guessing but I doubt you needed much more than a high school degree to get in GSC back in the 80's much less have a min of a 1010 SAT just to meet minimum application requirements today. I know half or more of my friends would not have been accepted today. Our living alumni population, currently only at 75K+/- which is about half of a typical old school university of our size, will grow faster than it ever has and the majority of them will not be unfairly low paid teachers. This bodes well for the endowment and booster numbers.