By: Carl Spackler

Carl Spackler
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 22:50:12 +0000

In reply to The" target="_blank" title="/2015/09/5-5m-deal-two-buildings-purchased-by-campus-partners-for-proposed-high-street-transformation-project/comment-page-1/#comment-98021">The">/2015/09/5-5m-deal-two-buildings-purchased-by-campus-partners-for-proposed-high-street-transformation-project/comment-page-1/#comment-98021">The Real Ohio State, Inc (tm). Oh, I'm with you 100%. Add to the "master plan" morphing the entire purpose of Campus Partners from an organization meant to help encourage home ownership east of High for faculty, staff, and grad students, to the absurd antithesis of that now. From a purpose built on creating community and cultivating a sense of neighborhood, to one of pandering to city real estate development, investors and politicians, as well as keeping up appearances for parent footing the bill. Also the push to raise the average ACT/SAT scores of incoming freshmen, which only has one purpose: to bring in more upper class students. Its well know that test scores strongly correlate with the quality of school district and socio economic background. We know how well public school and rural and inner city school are doing on that front in Ohio. these families expect to see a similar environment to where they're kids are coming from. God forbid they actually have to see what its like to live in a real city. The argument amongst the administration is literally that lower class (i.e under-performers on test scores due to poverty) students can go to any of the community or regional state universities they want. But that OSU is somehow for a higher standard of student at the undergrad level. Thats an absolute joke. OSU exists to serve the taxpayers of Ohio in total. Not some set aside group that already are coming from a position of privilege. IF OSU was actually to look at increasing its academic ranking is things like US News and World Report (another red herring for the ACT/SAT score increase), it should focus on the quality of the graduate programs, since quality of graduate program actually determines rankings that matter to students seeking a degree (undergrad AND grad). But, its a smoke and mirrors game, cause its the large undergrad population that pays the bills... or, at least loans and Mom and Dad.