Off-Topic: New record for Freshman enrollment

[EWURanger]

Looks like the University will have in excess of 1700 incoming Freshman this year. This probably means another year of record enrollment for EWU. Glad to see the University growing in all areas.

 

[GROUND&POUND]

Looks like the University will have in excess of 1700 incoming Freshman this year. This probably means another year of record enrollment for EWU. Glad to see the University growing in all areas.

This is outstanding. My wife and I were on campus on check in day, and saw all the parents and students getting into their dorms. It was wonderful and brought back many memories. We have a great looking incoming class and EWU should have lots of school spirit from what I've seen! :thumb:

 

[Seattle Eagle]

Looks like the University will have in excess of 1700 incoming Freshman this year. This probably means another year of record enrollment for EWU. Glad to see the University growing in all areas.

Great to see. Any guess as to fall enrollment?

 

[EWURanger]

Looks like the University will have in excess of 1700 incoming Freshman this year. This probably means another year of record enrollment for EWU. Glad to see the University growing in all areas.

Great to see. Any guess as to fall enrollment?

It really is. Back when I went to Eastern, there were only about 8,500 students. The state actually put a cap on the number of students each state University was allowed to have, and that was all tied to funding. It was a good thing for UW and WSU, but not such a great deal for the regional Universities.

On enrollment, I am guessing 13,700? Should definitely be between 13,5k and 14k. Last fall was ~13.5k.

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

Looks like the University will have in excess of 1700 incoming Freshman this year. This probably means another year of record enrollment for EWU. Glad to see the University growing in all areas.

Great to see. Any guess as to fall enrollment?

It really is. Back when I went to Eastern, there were only about 8,500 students. The state actually put a cap on the number of students each state University was allowed to have, and that was all tied to funding. It was a good thing for UW and WSU, but not such a great deal for the regional Universities.

On enrollment, I am guessing 13,700? Should definitely be between 13,5k and 14k. Last fall was ~13.5k.

Heck, even when I was there from 2004-2008, enrollment was only in the 9k-10k range.

 

[JoinTheEAF]

After attending what was as entertaining a game as any in the nation yesterday I have to ask how much of our student growth is connected to the success of Eagle athletics. Supporters of the Gateway would benefit from a survey that would ask; "Was Eagle athletics part of the reason you came to Cheney?"

Having the band do a real halftime show, a sea of red, too many former Eagle student athletes to count, a tailgate full of people who don't have tickets but want to be part of the scene, I could continue but the point is Eagle football has changed the Cheney campus. More change is needed. Let's hope the current Board of Trustees gets behind all of us who want to see the Gateway happen.

Go Eagles. Join the Eagle Athletic Fund if you haven't already. This will be another season where it is great to be an Eagle.

 

[clawman1]

After attending what was as entertaining a game as any in the nation yesterday I have to ask how much of our student growth is connected to the success of Eagle athletics. Supporters of the Gateway would benefit from a survey that would ask; "Was Eagle athletics part of the reason you came to Cheney?"

Having the band do a real halftime show, a sea of red, too many former Eagle student athletes to count, a tailgate full of people who don't have tickets but want to be part of the scene, I could continue but the point is Eagle football has changed the Cheney campus. More change is needed. Let's hope the current Board of Trustees gets behind all of us who want to see the Gateway happen.

Go Eagles. Join the Eagle Athletic Fund if you haven't already. This will be another season where it is great to be an Eagle.

Are you implying the board is not on board?

 

[JoinTheEAF]

I'm hopeful they are.

 

[EWURanger]

After attending what was as entertaining a game as any in the nation yesterday I have to ask how much of our student growth is connected to the success of Eagle athletics.

No-brainer. While there are several factors that have gone into the all-around growth of the University, Athletics plays a key role. I really think the football games that we have played on the Pac-12 network the past several years, combined with the Big Sky Conference's contract with ROOT, has increased the overall exposure of the program tremendously. There is no better advertisement for the EWU "brand" than a casual sports fan tuning into a game and watching EWU beat Oregon State, or play tough games against UW, WSU, and Oregon. Combine that with what we've done in hoops, and our brand is now recognized on a national level.

The correlation between the effects of success in athletics and the growth of a University is well documented and not even really up for debate. All anyone really needs to do is google "the Gonzaga effect" if they want something really close to home. Eastern is currently enjoying an upward swing and one that I hope we will enjoy for some time.

The real question is how long can we sustain it? Are the powers that be committed to sustaining it, or are they content with the status quo? And I'm not talking about people in the Athletics department. I'm not sure how many people understand or realize it, but Gateway has the potential to be a complete game-changer for Eastern. It would bring us to the forefront of collegiate athletics not only in the Pacific Northwest, but the entire west coast. Think about that for a second. You take a program like, say, Boise State, who back in the early 1990's said, "Look, we're going to be a football school. We're going to have success in football, and use that to drive revenue and increase the profile and growth of our University Academically." We need a similar vision.

I don't know if or when Gateway will ever come about, but I do know that in order for Eastern to sustain the amount of success we've had in recent years, there has to be a commitment from the Administration...from the Board of Trustees, from the student body, and from boosters and finally alumni. I sometimes think that as a collective group we are stuck in the mindset of being "little brother" to UW and WSU, and that's the kind of thinking that prevents all of the above.

You mentioned in another thread that the fact that we had a sellout was great, since there was a game going on in Pullman. That not only bothers me, it illustrates my point. Who cares what's going on in Pullman? Not me. We have something like 50k + alums in the Spokane area ALONE. We should be focusing on continuing to diminish WSU/Gonzaga/UW's market share in our own backyard. We have made huge strides in that area the past several years, but some folks at Eastern need to get out of the victim/little brother mindest and start getting into the mentality of "We are Eastern, and we are going to forge our own path, and our own future." Not only in athletics, but in academics as well. There are over 7 frickin' million people in Washington, and only 2 FBS level programs. The ceiling for growth for EWU in ALL AREAS is very high! Time for people to start thinking big, and that takes creativity, and more importantly, Leadership and Vision. I hope we get it right.

 

[eaglesfootball]

testify!

 

[HannahO]

All that, Ranger, plus the point that if you contrast the composition of our team's roster with that of either UW or WSU, we are clearly the football team of the state of Washington! Homegrown players should be easy for the region to get behind.

 

[dudeitsaid]

After attending what was as entertaining a game as any in the nation yesterday I have to ask how much of our student growth is connected to the success of Eagle athletics.

No-brainer. While there are several factors that have gone into the all-around growth of the University, Athletics plays a key role. I really think the football games that we have played on the Pac-12 network the past several years, combined with the Big Sky Conference's contract with ROOT, has increased the overall exposure of the program tremendously. There is no better advertisement for the EWU "brand" than a casual sports fan tuning into a game and watching EWU beat Oregon State, or play tough games against UW, WSU, and Oregon. Combine that with what we've done in hoops, and our brand is now recognized on a national level.

The correlation between the effects of success in athletics and the growth of a University is well documented and not even really up for debate. All anyone really needs to do is google "the Gonzaga effect" if they want something really close to home. Eastern is currently enjoying an upward swing and one that I hope we will enjoy for some time.

The real question is how long can we sustain it? Are the powers that be committed to sustaining it, or are they content with the status quo? And I'm not talking about people in the Athletics department. I'm not sure how many people understand or realize it, but Gateway has the potential to be a complete game-changer for Eastern. It would bring us to the forefront of collegiate athletics not only in the Pacific Northwest, but the entire west coast. Think about that for a second. You take a program like, say, Boise State, who back in the early 1990's said, "Look, we're going to be a football school. We're going to have success in football, and use that to drive revenue and increase the profile and growth of our University Academically." We need a similar vision.

I don't know if or when Gateway will ever come about, but I do know that in order for Eastern to sustain the amount of success we've had in recent years, there has to be a commitment from the Administration...from the Board of Trustees, from the student body, and from boosters and finally alumni. I sometimes think that as a collective group we are stuck in the mindset of being "little brother" to UW and WSU, and that's the kind of thinking that prevents all of the above.

You mentioned in another thread that the fact that we had a sellout was great, since there was a game going on in Pullman. That not only bothers me, it illustrates my point. Who cares what's going on in Pullman? Not me. We have something like 50k + alums in the Spokane area ALONE. We should be focusing on continuing to diminish WSU/Gonzaga/UW's market share in our own backyard. We have made huge strides in that area the past several years, but some folks at Eastern need to get out of the victim/little brother mindest and start getting into the mentality of "We are Eastern, and we are going to forge our own path, and our own future." Not only in athletics, but in academics as well. There are over 7 frickin' million people in Washington, and only 2 FBS level programs. The ceiling for growth for EWU in ALL AREAS is very high! Time for people to start thinking big, and that takes creativity, and more importantly, Leadership and Vision. I hope we get it right.

Well said!!! Hope the powers that be could read what you just wrote. I don't think it could be put more eloquently or pointedly.

 

[EWUeag]

After attending what was as entertaining a game as any in the nation yesterday I have to ask how much of our student growth is connected to the success of Eagle athletics.

No-brainer. While there are several factors that have gone into the all-around growth of the University, Athletics plays a key role. I really think the football games that we have played on the Pac-12 network the past several years, combined with the Big Sky Conference's contract with ROOT, has increased the overall exposure of the program tremendously. There is no better advertisement for the EWU "brand" than a casual sports fan tuning into a game and watching EWU beat Oregon State, or play tough games against UW, WSU, and Oregon. Combine that with what we've done in hoops, and our brand is now recognized on a national level.

The correlation between the effects of success in athletics and the growth of a University is well documented and not even really up for debate. All anyone really needs to do is google "the Gonzaga effect" if they want something really close to home. Eastern is currently enjoying an upward swing and one that I hope we will enjoy for some time.

The real question is how long can we sustain it? Are the powers that be committed to sustaining it, or are they content with the status quo? And I'm not talking about people in the Athletics department. I'm not sure how many people understand or realize it, but Gateway has the potential to be a complete game-changer for Eastern. It would bring us to the forefront of collegiate athletics not only in the Pacific Northwest, but the entire west coast. Think about that for a second. You take a program like, say, Boise State, who back in the early 1990's said, "Look, we're going to be a football school. We're going to have success in football, and use that to drive revenue and increase the profile and growth of our University Academically." We need a similar vision.

I don't know if or when Gateway will ever come about, but I do know that in order for Eastern to sustain the amount of success we've had in recent years, there has to be a commitment from the Administration...from the Board of Trustees, from the student body, and from boosters and finally alumni. I sometimes think that as a collective group we are stuck in the mindset of being "little brother" to UW and WSU, and that's the kind of thinking that prevents all of the above.

You mentioned in another thread that the fact that we had a sellout was great, since there was a game going on in Pullman. That not only bothers me, it illustrates my point. Who cares what's going on in Pullman? Not me. We have something like 50k + alums in the Spokane area ALONE. We should be focusing on continuing to diminish WSU/Gonzaga/UW's market share in our own backyard. We have made huge strides in that area the past several years, but some folks at Eastern need to get out of the victim/little brother mindest and start getting into the mentality of "We are Eastern, and we are going to forge our own path, and our own future." Not only in athletics, but in academics as well. There are over 7 frickin' million people in Washington, and only 2 FBS level programs. The ceiling for growth for EWU in ALL AREAS is very high! Time for people to start thinking big, and that takes creativity, and more importantly, Leadership and Vision. I hope we get it right.

:clap:

 

[93bird]

I couldn't agree more, Ranger. However, we need not only to sustain our success, but to further it. That means leaving the Big Sky Conference for the either the Mountain West or Pac12. Our weak regular season schedule does nothing to elevate our program. Academically, Eastern would be more closely aligned with peer institutions in the Pac12 (Stanford, Cal, UW) than it is in the Big Sky. We'll be mired in mediocrity as long as we're stuck playing Montana forestry and rodeo trade schools every year. Oh wait. This isn't Egriz. Nevermind.

 

[HannahO]

I couldn't agree more, Ranger. However, we need not only to sustain our success, but to further it. That means leaving the Big Sky Conference for the either the Mountain West or Pac12. Our weak regular season schedule does nothing to elevate our program. Academically, Eastern would be more closely aligned with peer institutions in the Pac12 (Stanford, Cal, UW) than it is in the Big Sky. We'll be mired in mediocrity as long as we're stuck playing Montana forestry and rodeo trade schools every year. Oh wait. This isn't Egriz. Nevermind.

:rofl: :rofl: :notworthy:

 

[kalm]

I couldn't agree more, Ranger. However, we need not only to sustain our success, but to further it. That means leaving the Big Sky Conference for the either the Mountain West or Pac12. Our weak regular season schedule does nothing to elevate our program. Academically, Eastern would be more closely aligned with peer institutions in the Pac12 (Stanford, Cal, UW) than it is in the Big Sky. We'll be mired in mediocrity as long as we're stuck playing Montana forestry and rodeo trade schools every year. Oh wait. This isn't Egriz. Nevermind.

:rofl:

This and Ranger's post... :notworthy: :clap:

I hope someone on here can get Rangers post in front of the eyes of the President and BOT's.

 

[EWURanger]

All joking aside...I'm serious, damnit! :nod:

 

[Screamin_Eagle174]

I couldn't agree more, Ranger. However, we need not only to sustain our success, but to further it. That means leaving the Big Sky Conference for the either the Mountain West or Pac12. Our weak regular season schedule does nothing to elevate our program. Academically, Eastern would be more closely aligned with peer institutions in the Pac12 (Stanford, Cal, UW) than it is in the Big Sky. We'll be mired in mediocrity as long as we're stuck playing Montana forestry and rodeo trade schools every year. Oh wait. This isn't Egriz. Nevermind.

:rofl:

This and Ranger's post... :notworthy: :clap:

I hope someone on here can get Rangers post in front of the eyes of the President and BOT's.

:+1: